Category: Caregiver Stress
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Self Care and How You Can Be Your Own Best Friend
Being a friend to your SELF is no mere metaphor or purely sentimental idea. It is the basis of all relationships, because it is a fundamental recognition of soul.” Thomas Moore 1. Healthy self care includes listening to how you speak to yourself Turn up the volume on your self-talk. Become aware of the voices in…
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Why Healing Requires Letting Go
Healing and Unprocessed FeelingsThe title of this program, Letting go, the Heart of Healing refers to the fact that until we let go of old roles, programs and unprocessed emotions from our inner hard drives healing cannot really happen and nothing new can take root within to become a source of strength, power and freedom…
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What do Judgement, Surrender and Acceptance Have to do With Energy?
Judgement, Surrender, Acceptance Point to Deep Aspects of Self Care Years ago my therapist spoke to me about “persistent kindness to the self”. At the time I understood the basic concept but REALLY did not grasp how it pertained to the deeper aspects of ourselves. As time went by it became apparent that to me…
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Afraid of Negative Emotions?
We typically classify emotions as positive or negative based on our experience of them. We like the feelings that are “positive”, we do not like the feelings that are “negative”. Our emotions are energy and by themselves are neither positive nor negative. What is more important than our value judgments on feelings is HOW we…
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Letting Go of Judgement
We judge ourselves, other people and situations daily. We pass everything through our own experiences and filters. We need to have an ability to know if something is good for us, dangerous, destructive and so forth. However, this is one of those normal human capabilities that has run amok. We say that things are good/bad,…
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What is Your Relationship to Patience?
Recently in my yoga class the teacher asked what our relationship to patience was. My quick answer was –conflicted! More thought brought the awareness that that was not a complete answer. There are places where I have infinite patience, and then others where it is in moderate supply and then those where there is NONE…