(NOTE: This post contains a part at the end about my faith life) Through these last couple of posts, I have attempted to answer the question, “What do we do with this time?” I started with the reality of how big our need is to give and receive right now. Then, I moved on to […]
(Note: This post will include faith portions.) In the middle of a random week in February, my husband and I had a two night getaway in the hills of Tennessee. It was an early anniversary celebration and nothing short of magical. We chose a place that would give us space to connect deeply and be
It is the end of the world as we’ve known it…at least for a little bit. Are you feeling ALL the feelings? Are you feeling NONE of the feelings? Wherever you are on that continuum, there are many others right there with you, emotionally speaking. (Insert laugh track here.) One of the questions coming from
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(Note: This post will include faith portions.) In my work, I have the privilege of walking alongside amazing people. And, they all walk different roads. As we have been processing the current situation of our planet, they have unique concerns and situations. However, there are some foundational components that remain similar. The one that I
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(NOTE: Faith incorporated throughout post.) In my last post, we dove into the difference between Anger and Rage. Revisit that if you have forgotten. I get that it’s been a while. In this post, I wrote that I want to help y’all to understand some ways to approach conflict and what exactly “Amends” is. Just
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Of all of the feelings on the feelings list, I think Anger is the most misunderstood. The majority of us were not shown or taught healthy anger, how to honor our anger or how to process through it in our relationships with other people. So, we stuff it, avoid it, pretend we don’t feel it
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The word Codependence gets thrown around a lot. There are two books that were fundamental for me as I searched to better understand Codependency. One is Facing Codependency, by Pia Mellody. The other is Codependent No More, by Melody Beattie. I typically give my clients some information before they read either book. First, Pia describes
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As I told y’all in my last post, the Feelings list has been transformational for me. As was the drawing of the Sides of the Street. I am going to dive a bit more into feelings, and then we will go back to the Sides of the Street and combine what we have learned so
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To be honest, as I started formulating this post, I didn’t remember all the history about how the feelings lists came about. So, I did a little googling. Need Burton, M.D. writes on emotions/feelings and he reminded me of this, “ The concept of ‘basic’ or ‘primary’ emotions dates back at least to the Book of
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Fluffy. That is the word I use to describe her as she is more round than she used to be. I looked down the other day and was aware that my tummy is rounder…my legs are rounder. She is rounder. She used to be flat in places and I was proud of that. I was