Celebrate Insight, Choice, and Hope. Celebrating Can Be Self-Care.
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #161 – Celebrate your insight, your choice, and your hope to be a friend to yourself. I realize autism has taken over my life and I’m not sure how I feel about that....
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Control This, Emote Empathically
Self-Care Tip #172 – When you can’t control this, emote empathically. Be a friend to yourself. A couple of days ago I wrote about being transparent with ourselves and others when we are not in control...
View ArticleJust to Feel Pleasure
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #189 – Heal for yourself, and you’ll see that also, everyone heals. The best thing I ever did was go on antidepressants. Bianca sat, but her whole body was talking....
View ArticleLove – Take What is Already Yours. You Have Been Given Love.
Image by ex.libris via Flickr Self-Care Tip #194 – Take what is already yours. Be a friend to yourself. Parenting, we hold the power in the relationship between us and our child/ren. If we are...
View ArticleSo Many Choices, So Little Time …For Self-Care
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #198 – Being a friend to yourself might be saying, No. Our culture is brimming. Brimming with…, well take your pick; walking the dogs, turning in a take-home test,...
View ArticleLiving Where We Feel Safe is Part of Self-Care
Self-Care Tip #213 – Live in safety. Be a friend to yourself. Image by Nikita Kashner via Flickr I love psychiatry because for me it is a safe place. A place where I am comfortable pushing aside...
View ArticleImagine If You Were Your Own Friend, And Take Your Advice
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) via Flickr Self-Care Tip #234 – Imagine if you were your own friend, and take your advice. Joana Johnson, author of CreatingBrains.com, full-time...
View ArticleFree To Do Self-Care, Despite Our Bully
Image via Wikipedia Bullying: Series Continued. (I didn’t even realize I was writing a series until now!) #144 Leave Space In Your Beliefs To Grow #163 “He’s Never Hit Me.” Abuse. #251 Just Ordinary...
View ArticleFinalé – Me Again. Everything Starts and Ends With Me – Even Emotions and...
We are doing a narrative series on understanding where emotions and behaviors come from: Emotions Are Contagious – Emotions shared Our own Emotional Junk – Emotions hidden Positive Emotions and...
View ArticleWe Try Knowing We Will Fail. The Wonderful Journey Of Flawed People.
Image by plαdys via Flickr It’s 9:23 PM and our little kids are still awake! They’ve cried. They’ve laughed. We’ve cuddled. We’ve spanked. They’ve taken two showers and brushed their teeth twice....
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