Videos and articles on self-care, self-compassion, self-love, self-forgiveness and self-worth by Dr. Jodi.
Healing is not scary. It is a process of changing perspective. Truth by definition is absolute. It is definitive. It is what it is and that is it. I have come to believe that not much is true in the literal sense. What we think of as truths are most often just idea or perception. It is […]
Therapeutic documents help me remember what people say. But they are so much more than that. Conversations are easy to forget. I am interested in writing things down that you want to remember. Especially when it comes to helping ourselves dissolve some of the problems in our lives. Writing can be therapeutic in many ways. We can
By definition, affirmation is “a declaration that something is true.” And also known as “a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome.” So how do you write an affirmation that works? But it is not as simple as looking in the mirror and saying “I love you, you are the greatest!” as positive psychology would
When I was in grade school, I went to a memory improvement workshop. The leader taught us four important elements to improving memory skills. They are positive, present tense, repetition, and high emotion. They are hard to write without yelling. The workshop presenter drove it home by having the entire auditorium yelling (high emotion) the
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Do you feel like no one understands what you are going through? There are all these quotations on Facebook that tell us that we just have to “let go” of our feelings and we’ll “feel better.” But when our feelings are so intense and we would give anything to get rid of them, it is
I talk much about taking action in life and acknowledge that we all take action towards a conscious purpose. To illustrate this today I share the skills and knowledge document created at the Reclaiming Your Soul Retreat last month. All of these skills were experienced, named, and described by the participants. It needs no introduction. Skills
Enjoy this recipe of dandelion vinegar! Happy Mother’s Day! And I am talking to anyone, of any gender, who have raised children or not. Everyone is included because we all have some mothering skills at our disposal that we use to care for our loved ones and to care for ourselves. Or how else would
Curious about why we cry? I wish I had a dime for anytime someone apologized for crying in front of me in counseling. As if they were offending me. (More likely, offending themselves.) Why do we shame ourselves for something that can be such a biological relief to our parasympathetic nervous system? Why do we–all
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