Videos and articles on self-care, self-compassion, self-love, self-forgiveness and self-worth by Dr. Jodi.
My husband showed me a great article on gender politics this week called Why Women Should Stop Trying To Be Perfect by Deborah Spar. Here is some thought provoking tidbits… Even worse, we somehow believe that we need to do all of this at once, and without any help. Almost by definition, a woman cannot work […]
Today I will embrace what I am resisting. At this point in my life, I’d rather resist all competition.* But instead I have joined the race. Race 2012! It is a blogging project by my blogging buddy Monica Medina. I will kick off from the starting line today. But I am not so ready to
Did you ever say, “I don’t even know who I am”? What does this mean when we say this? Do we only have one identity? And our life goal is to find it? As if when we feel this way, whichever way we thought before we must have been wrong about. I don’t think so.
As usual, my children and my clients are my greatest teachers. As I was flitting around one morning multitasking as usual, my daughter stopped me to read me a poem. It made me stop and ask myself: What do you think you are? This was the poem: What do you think you are? “Zebra Question” by Shel
We don’t usually think too hard about how to create rituals, since most of the ones that we engage in everyday came from our culture. I loved the comments and ideas shared after Monday’s post Five Benefits of Ritual. Everyone seemed to understand that we engage in ritual constantly even though there are many names
One man was observing another man on the beach fishing. He noticed that he caught some big fish and some little fish. The big fish he threw right back into the water, yet he kept the little fish. Knowing this man was fishing for his dinner, the observer’s curiosity peaked. He went over to the
Do you have neediness anxiety? You know what that is. Anxiety about being too needy and driving people away from you? Here are a few more thoughts on “Need”… (See Thursdays post A Question of Need) Neediness Anxiety Many people have neediness anxiety: AKA “worry about being too needy.” Being “too needy” is generally frowned
Today I feel thankful and want to say, “Thank you Universe!” Recently my daughter has been intrigued by the song Thank You by Alanis Morrisette. She asked me line by line what the lyrics meant Why India? What’s frailty?… Thank you Universe Thank You, by Alanis Morissette How ’bout getting off these antibiotics How ’bout stopping eating when