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Stop! Before Hurting Yourself or Others
Image by mdanys via Flickr Self-Care Tip #192 – Before hurting yourself or others, stop. Sometimes all we can do is leave. Not being created as a limp noodle, that’s what Brenda said. In the moment of...
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Pain Doesn’t Define Life’s Potential
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #196 – When you are hurting, remember the pain doesn’t define life’s potential. Be a friend to yourself. Yesterday we talked about giving and getting bad news...
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Go Towards Your Pain to Relieve It
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care #197 – Go where your pain is to prepare for what happens badly in life. Yesterday we talked about the power of loss, grief and pain not being one that can take away the...
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Self-Care Is About More Than “Me”
Self-Care Tip #208 – If for no other reason, get friendly with yourself simply to survive and you’ll see what that means later. Image by CatrinaZ via Flickr It is not unusual to think of “selfish-care”...
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The Testimony of The White-Headed People – Connection and Aging
Once again, I find myself in a café. This doesn’t happen often enough for me. But here, I am at the wonderful le Croissant Bakery, indulging not only in the quiet of my private thoughts, not only in...
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Presence – What is Turning In You?
Image by Nina Matthews Photography via Flickr It’s summer break already and that means more Mom-time for the kids,… and a few other things. But if there’s more Mom-time for the kids, we all know what...
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Don’t Let Your Sense of Need Get Away From You
Pinocchio Illustration - When He Becomes a Donkey (Photo credit: Kev.Kirsche) Self-Care Tip: Find your need, grip it tight enough to not let it be taken from you and loose enough that fatigue will not...
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Grief and living the rest of our lives
Grieving openly and in community about our losses increases our likelihood of getting more out of what we still have. Q: How have you been grieving? How do you live with what you have left? Please tell...
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The hard work of being friendly to Me – talking about ECT
i take drugs (Photo credit: the|G|™) I give a lot of talks in my community on understanding electroconvulsive therapy, (ECT,) as a treatment option for brain illness and I am finally able to bullet...
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Turn Toward Something Better
Had a great time at, “Seams of Gold.” Great example of how community is friendly to “Me.” Met a wonderful man. Me: Hi! I’m Dr. Quijada! I’m a psychiatrist. Him: I’m Frank. I’m a recovering...
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