As a Marriage and Family Therapist more than 40 years ago, I was invited to participate in a conference on Domestic Violence. Without the internet and eager to network, I accepted. I knew little about Domestic Violence and had not encountered it as a therapist. Pioneers in the Domestic Violence Awareness movement, such as Lenore […]
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Grief affects us on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social levels. What’s difficult for most people are the feelings associated with grief. No one wants to feel sadness, anger, fear, guilt, loneliness, despair, frustration, resentment, bitterness, hopelessness. These feelings stem from the deep sense of abandonment we feel when we experience loss. We tend
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Shame 101: 3 Steps to Start Unloading the Heavy Weight of Shame. Part 1 of a 3-Part blog series In October 2018, I wrote and published a blog titled, 10 Tips to Stop Shaming Yourself. It got a lot of hits and a lot of reads. I took that to mean the topic resonated with
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Did you notice a meme going around with a photo of a pink or grey sneaker? It’s one of those optical illusions where some people see one color while others see something different. When I looked at it, I saw a grey shoe with mint laces. I showed the photo to my husband. He saw
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Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle Happiness and being happy come from within you. When found outside, from things like a festive gathering, a work promotion, or being noted for an accomplishment, happiness quickly fades as life moves along. Life provides us with daily lessons and experiences, allowing us insight into reacting or responding.
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Research shows that the average amount of time it takes for a person to “recover” from a significant loss is five to eight years. That\’s just letting grief “run its course” or taking the “time heals all wounds” approach. It is generally accepted by professionals assisting people in their time of loss that there are
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We’ve all been there, something gets said, you read an article, or you hear about a situation and your body has a physical and emotional reaction. Maybe your throat tightens, shoulders stiffen, head throbs, stomach turns, or your neck knots up. It could be all of those things or more. Triggers happen when something connects
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If you’ve done any grief work you’ve heard of the five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, leading to acceptance. This stage model is based on the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying. She proposed a theoretical framework to describe the process one goes through when they are facing
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What we give to ourselves in mindful care, we extend to everyone else compassionately. – Nancy Stevens More often than not, many of us do not allow ourselves to just be with and accept the person we truly are. This is an area that took me a “hot” minute to find and enjoy being in
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What Is Joy? “The emotion evoked by well-being, success, good fortune, or by the prospect of possessing what one desires.” – Merriam Webster “A state of mind and an orientation of the heart. It is a settled state of contentment, confidence, and hope.” – Theopedia In the world we live in, it\’s no secret that
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