Welcome to Season 4, Episode 7, which accompanies Chapter 4, Section 7, “Embrace Compassion.” I love this episode! In it, we’ll discuss: While compassion has been a constant theme this whole series, it begs for its very own section of the book. It is that important. Compassion and self-compassion are essential to emotional healing and […]
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Let’s Talk Suicide Prevention The topic of suicide prevention is a difficult one, but so pervasive. Everyone has been touched by suicide in some way. We either know someone who has done it, or someone who has felt like they wanted to or we have wanted to commit suicide ourselves. It is a dark and
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You have a big heart and it hurts to watch the people you love suffer. You want to help heal them. It’s also difficult to avoid getting caught up in their story and circumstances. You worry about them, of course you do and implicit in that worry is love and caring which is kind and
Healing with Self-Love If you want to heal from emotional pain, this is the place to be. I will tell you that you are love. You give love and you deserve love. But sometimes, you don’t give that love that you DESERVE to yourself. This keeps you from freeing yourself from the emotional pain in
Embrace Yourself Through Kindness Let me go on the record saying I make mistakes. I make mistakes, people! Tons of them. And I feel things: Sadness, anger, frustration from small and big injustices. Yes, I sweat the small stuff sometimes. I don’t take care of myself sometimes and other times I am too lazy and selfish
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Everyone is saying to love yourself, but you don’t know how? I’ve got you. Read on. We are, each of us, our own worst critic I know that barrage of negative self-judgments that are going through your head. I know because I grew up in this same culture and I’ve dealt with them my whole
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Do you know how to feel self-love? This is so evasive because we put so much meaning around it.I had a client who was following a guided meditation where he was asked to touch his heart and feel love for himself. He tried, but soon panicked. He didn’t know if he was “doing it right”
I miss my family while I am working. My clients when I am home. I miss friends who live out of town. And old friends I don’t speak with. I miss my family members who have passed on. Missing people can feel painful at times when the longing feels huge and a loneliness creeps out
How to help your partner who is insecure There are challenges to loving someone who doesn’t love herself very much. Not in that they are hard to love. That part is easy. When you love someone, you love them. You see his or her awesomeness and love them up. The tricky part sometimes comes when she
Relationships take work to sustain. There are ups and downs. The ups sail along nicely. But the downs? They can really kick you in the butt. They make you really wonder, Does he love me? (Or she.) Any sign of trouble* can raise your insecurity to a devastating level. Or… sometimes it is your insecurity that is
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