Taking sufficient care of ourselves to ensure we can be our best selves is hard for many of us. One way to do this better is to think about our self care needs in the third person.
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Healing the whole person
The health of our physical bodies is vitally important in the health and healing of our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves, but it’s a connection we often overlook. Health and healing involves the whole person.
Continue readingWhen the holidays pull your strings
The holidays can bring out our wounded inner children as we re-enact old family patterns, wounds, and stories like marionettes whose strings are being pulled. Try these tips for a more peace-filled holiday this year.
Continue readingHow not to talk to yourself when you’re hurting
How we talk to ourselves matters more than we think, and that’s even more true when we are hurting and vulnerable. This one shift in how we deal with our inner voices can make a huge difference in times of pain.
Continue readingPracticing self-compassion
If you’ve found traditional mental exercise to evoke self-compassion to be problematic, here’s a different approach that focuses on self-compassionate actions instead. Behavioral changes can spark self-compassionate feelings over time while bypassing mental and emotional pitfalls.
Continue readingWhen discouragement strikes
Times of discouragement are an inevitable part of life, but it sure isn’t any fun! Here are a few things I’ve learned about ways I am able to keep moving (even slowly) when I’m feeling discouraged.
Continue readingLearning to mother ourselves
A key part of kintsugi living is learning to mother ourselves through the healing process, to champion our own growth, and to tend to our own well-being. How well do you mother your inner self?
Continue readingDealing with discouragement
Discouragement is a natural outcome of the amount of disruption we are facing. Here are some things that I’ve found helpful in working through my discouraging moments. What works best for you?
Continue readingPracticing lovingkindness in broken places
This season of so much social distancing provides a perfect space for this practice of loving-kindness to work toward healing the broken relationships in our lives and to spread loving-kindness to the world around us at large. Will you join me in making this a daily practice during this challenging time?
Continue readingWhat’s your kryptonite?
We all have our kryptonite, those things that drain us of strength and leave us less able to handle certain situations. Knowing and honoring our own idiosyncratic limits enables us to be kinder to ourselves and others so that we have to more to give in the long run.
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