Articles by Jodi Aman on relationships between romantic couples, parents-kids, work colleague and more. How self worth is created in relationship with others.
Your thoughts are part of you. Human’s on average have 60,000 thoughts a day. We can’t even register all of the thoughts that we have! If we hold an identity of ourselves, for example: “insignificant”; an opinion about a person: “selfish;” or a certain view of the world: “chaos,” we notice and remember the thoughts that […]
Is your ego hurting you? Egos are funny son’s of b—-es. In great effort to protect themselves (ourselves) our ego, causes tons of suffering. It seems ridiculous to make ourselves suffer in the guise of protecting ourselves, but we do it every day. It’s not funny. Your ego does this every day Are you wondering why we
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Dear Mother Earth, Thank you for your colors, the “Disney” green of the moss, the deep blue of the sky, the stark white of the clouds. The red and purple in the setting sun. Thank you for your plants. They sustain us with food, give us medicine to heal our bodies, wood for our shelter,
Many people ask me how to forgive. I tell them that forgiveness is a choice. You don’t have to know how to do anything, you just decide that you are going to do it. You let go of judgments and then it just happens on its own with no more effort on your part. The
Reposting about my Great Grandmother Frances today! It is one of my first posts from years ago when nobody read my blog! It is an excerpt of an article I published called “Therapist As Host: Making my guests feel welcome” in The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work 2006 No.3, Published by Dulwich
Be a witness. This one is easy and my favorite life commitments. For some of us and at some time in our life, this world is a lonely place. There are a few choices for us bystanders to do in response to other’s pain. We gain tremendously from all of them. It does not take from
The following is a excerpt from my new Book Understanding Pain, Anger and Fear: Michael White’s Absent But Implicit. In the context of everyday conversations, it is all too common to hear expressions of complaint, pain, frustration, worry, and/or anger. In our culture, we are quick to point out what we don’t want and what we don’t
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People from my past are still part of me. Last night, I sat waiting in a parking lot for my father to drop off my son (12) who spent the day with him watching movies and going to dinner. I arrived early and sat watching great big chunks of snowflakes falling on my windshield. The world