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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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When to Push – Melancholia

Effie came to me with many melancholic symptoms. Melancholia is an interesting word.  It comes from the Greek word for black bile, which is where people used to think sadness came from.  The word...

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We Are Unique

Image via Wikipedia We are unique, but it is not our suffering that makes us unique. Related Articles Pain and Suffering (psychologytoday.com) Your Pain is Not Special. It Is Normal....

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Be Friendly Enough With Yourself To Acknowledge the Gift In Your Suffering

Image by bending light via Flickr Pain. There are so many of us suffering from pain that sometimes it is as if nobody escapes. Even so, in the contorting agony that pain brings, we have a very hard...

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The Gift in Wanting – Water, is Taught by Thirst

Water, is taught by thirst.  Land -- by the Oceans passed.  Transport -- by throe  -- Peace -- by its battles told  -- Love, by Memorial Mold  -- Birds, by the Snow. -Emily Dickinson I have been quiet...

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If You Love Me, Give Me Less But Give To Me Bigger and Better

Repost Good news.  Marcy was better.  She was feeling better emotionally, less triggered by simple stressors, and parenting better.  Marcy didn’t think it was anywhere near easy, but it was better. It...

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Paper Doll Syndrome – Changing Symptomotology Can Be an Opportunity to...

Paper Doll Photographer – 2/52 (Photo credit: Mark Hopkins Photography) Fred didn’t remember his panic.  He thought his main problem was his sleep.  His so-called “main problem” changed with his...

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Tenuous Connections – Where is Our Rock?

Skógafoss waterfall (Photo credit: big-ashb) So thinking more about Alena and her alien psychiatrist-poser… Why is Alena known, or recognized, by Alien? Where Alien came from, brain illness isn’t...

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You Are Valuable, Even After Losing So Much

We all might take what we have lieft and love it.  We have this remaining and losing self.  The now person and the person that is losing something else on top of it all again and again.  Another tooth...

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Feeling Trapped is Doom

Freedom (Photo credit: Intrepidteacher) Did someone put a knife in my neck? Goodbye sex.  Goodbye flirting.  Goodbye self-esteem.  It was a down-right turnoff for life, let alone sex.  He could not...

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