Happy New Year to All! I’m excited to start this new year with optimism and a renewed sense of potential. Among the many mental tools and spiritual/holistic practices I strive to develop, like gratitude exercises and regularly journaling, I also want to be more intentional about the practice of “cultivating joy” in my life. I […]
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It brings me a certain level of ironic amusement by choosing to start off a post about “fun” with the Oxford Dictionary definition. 😋 My first big assumption about the topic of “fun” was that it would be synonymous with other positive words/feelings like: happiness, joy, and play. After a searching “Atlas of the Heart”
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This session’s discussion topic is all about the process of making and receiving meaningful, genuine amends in response to hurt experienced in relationships. Without a holistic model to reference, I still recall how painful, lacking, and unhealthy the “apologies” I received and issued during my childhood were. My authoritarian father (likely undiagnosed OCPD) would enforce
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Once again, it seems appropriate to share an entire (slightly abridged) section from the book “Atlas of the Heart” on Shame. For context, the emotion of Shame falls under the heading “Places We Go When We Fall Short” and is grouped with Self-Compassion, Perfectionism, Guilt, Humiliation, and Embarrassment. There’s just too much ground to cover
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