Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP November 9th-15th, 2019 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, November 9th (AM) I choose to believe most people are doing the best they can, with the tools they have. I choose to believe that if people aren’t doing as well as they can inherently do, it’s because they either haven’t been shown how to do it, or rewarded for doing it in the past. | | |
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| | Saturday, November 9th (PM) The skill of creating and going to a safe space inside of you begins with imagining what a safe space looks and feels like. When I say “safe space,” what do you imagine? When we develop that safe space imagery in our heads, it’s important that we use it. | | |
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| | Sunday, November 10th (AM) There’s a difference between backing down just because you’re scared, when in reality you COULD actually endure a situation; versus beating a strategic retreat because it’s the tactically smart thing to do. | | |
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| | Sunday, November 10th (PM) Let’s remember that each person contains entire universes and long histories that we are mostly unaware of. Everyone— literally everyone— is struggling with something that is invisible to us. | | |
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| | Monday, November 11th (AM) As you become more consistent with your attempts to listen to yourself and take yourself seriously, you will come to trust yourself more. A big part of healing is leaning to listen to ourselves and take ourselves seriously. | | |
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| | Monday, November 11th (PM) You’re never going to punish yourself into feeling better. “Suck it up” isn’t a recipe for happiness.The fact that you’re not happy is not the result of “weakness.” Depression is not a defect of character. | | |
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| | Tuesday, November 12th (Blog) "DIALING BACK THE DRAMA." We are not “creating drama” when we set boundaries. In fact, setting boundaries is an effort to head off drama. | | |
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| | Tuesday, November 12th (PM) The fact is, trust is actually very important— and intimate. Not everybody deserves your trust. Not everybody has earned your trust. Not everybody is safe to trust. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 13th (AM) Most people influence others in quieter, more subtle ways. Ways that don’t make for dramatic movies…but that’s okay. You don’t need to be a protean genius or leader in order for your life to matter. All you need to be is you. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 13th (PM) If you spend your life trying to “prove” you are “enough,” you’re going to waste an awful lot of time— because no accomplishment will ever permanently solve the FEELING of unworthiness. | | |
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| | Thursday, November 14th (Blog): “YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST. PERIOD.” There are times you may feel worthless. There are times you may feel like you do not contribute to the world. There may even be times when you feel the world would be better off without you. Those are not facts. Everyone deserves to be here— whether they feel that way or not. | | |
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| | Thursday, November 14th (PM) You’re going to have off days and bad moods. You’re going to have them, I’m going to have them, and the most empowered, together person you know— whoever that may be— has them. Sometimes the thing to do is to just wait it out. Save your energy. Gather your wits. Bad moods are a drag…but it’s often our panicked response to a bad mood that does the real damage. A bad mood doesn’t mean you have to act out. | | |
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| | Friday, November 15th (AM) Do not let the world convince you that you are not the authority on your own life, your own needs, your own experiences. You do not need to buy, read, download, or experience anything in order to be complete. You are complete, just as you are. | | |
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| | Friday, November 15th (PM) Just notice what’s going on inside you. Don’t judge it. Don’t get freaked out by it. Just notice. There’s what’s going on in there; and there’s whatever’s beneath what’s going on in there. There are feelings; and there are feelings beneath the feelings. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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