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Embrace Realistic Expectations for Yourself and Others: Podcast Ep. 4:3

Leave a Comment / Anxiety Help, Live on Purpose, Love Yourself, Parenting and Family, Podcast, Teen Mental Health / By Doctor Jodi

In this episode, which follows Chapter 4, Section 3: Embrace Realistic Expectations, I review how this culture’s unrealistic expectations support your feelings of inadequacy. You’ll learn how to My goal is to encourage you to be kinder and gentle with yourself and see your abilities and agency instead of your inadequacies and shortcomings. As opposed […]

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Suicide Prevention for You or Someone You Love – FB Live

4 Comments / Love Yourself / By Doctor Jodi

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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Don’t should on yourself! Stop negative self-judgment

15 Comments / Live on Purpose, Mindfulness / By Doctor Jodi

Mistake #5: You judge yourself I can talk about this day in and day out, and still most people who come to see me in counseling have a problem with this. Some of them don’t even know they are doing it, but it is affecting them big time! Through regular conversations with friends, family, and

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Three things that lift you out of self-judgment

27 Comments / Forgiveness, Live on Purpose / By Doctor Jodi

Is negative self judgment or doubt pervasive in strangling many of your efforts? Does feeling “not enough” make you feel exhausted and heavy and like it is not worth trying? Does Fear stop you from doing what you want to do? You are not alone. So many of us feel this way that I find

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Does A Zebra Have White Stripes or Black Stripes?

Leave a Comment / Live on Purpose, Love Yourself / By Doctor Jodi

As usual, my children and my clients are my greatest teachers. As I was flitting around one morning, multitasking as usual, my daughter read me this poem about the zebra “Zebra Question” by Shel Silverstein I asked the zebra, Are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me,

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