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WEEKLY RECAP March 28th - April 3rd, 2020 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, March 28th (AM) There is truly no “right” or “wrong” way to handle stress. There’s no “right” or “wrong” way to learn. And there’s definitely no “right” or “wrong” way to grieve. | | |
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| | Saturday, March 28th (PM) The truth is, there are different versions of “you” that exist for different people and different situations. It’s not weird. Everyone has multiple versions of themselves. | | |
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| | Sunday, March 29th (AM) When we’re off balance and reacting to traumatic or swift changing circumstances, it’s easy to forget what’s most important to us. So we need to remind ourselves. | | |
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| | Sunday, March 29th (PM) Because you’re anxious doesn’t mean you’re weak. Because you’re depressed doesn’t mean you’re weak. Because you’re exhausted doesn’t mean you’re weak. | | |
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| | Monday, March 30th (AM) A subset of people really think they’re just going to bully themselves into doing things they “ought” to do. Getting in a war with yourself very rarely ends well. If you want to build self-esteem, you need to find ways to work with yourself— not against yourself. | | |
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| | Monday, March 30th (PM) Right now it’s more important than ever that we connect, not just with our friends and colleagues via social media and video chatting apps, but also with the personalities and institutions from whom we draw mentorship and inspirations. | | |
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| | Tuesday, March 31st (Blog) "YOU’RE NOT GOING TO SEPARATE YOUR INDIVIDUAL ISSUES YOU’RE YOUR RELATIONSHIP ISSUES." What we struggle with as individuals, will seep into our relationships. What we struggle with in relationships, will boomerang back on us as individuals. It’s really, really hard to create and sustain healthy relationships if you’re daily wracked with depression, anxiety, or addiction. | | |
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| | Tuesday, March 31st (PM) Trying to keep stuff from yourself truly isn’t worth the effort. You know what I’m talking about here. Denial. Avoidance. Sometimes we will do absolute psychological backflips to avoid seeing what we see and knowing what we know. It’s not usually our fault. It’s not like we wake up in the morning and decide, “I’m TOTALLY going to try to hide the truth of this situation from myself, because it makes me uncomfortable.” | | |
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| | Wednesday, April 1st (AM) All our lives people are judging the kind of person we are, based on what we do with our time and energy. We can chase other peoples’ ideas of what makes for a “good person” for years…and not find fulfillment. | | |
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| | Wednesday, April 1st (PM) Don’t buy into depression and anxiety’s lies when you’re tired. Remember that they do not care about the things you care about. Nor do they care about truth, nor do they care about you. | | |
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| | Thursday, April 2nd (Blog): “DON'T FEEL GUILTY IF YOU FEEL GOOD RIGHT NOW.” The thing is, when every other post we see on social media is about how much of a dumpster fire this year or the world is; or how scared and angry people are at the current situation; or how hopeless and frustrated people are about the immediate future…it becomes a little awkward when we have something OTHER than negative feelings to report. | | |
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| | Thursday, April 2nd (PM) Most skills are good for what they’re good for. They have limits and uses. Don’t discard the uses because you’re frustrated with the limits. Learn a variety of coping skills that attack your problems and triggers from a variety of angles. The truth is that most progress is made when we collect a bunch of different tools and skills from various sources, and switch them up as we need to. I know, I know, I wish there was one magic skill or technique that would just solve the entire problem of getting triggered and having to cope. | | |
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| | Friday, April 3rd (AM) It’s really hard to heal something you’re hell bent on avoiding. It’s like trying to put balm on a burn— but refusing to look at the burn while you do it. | | |
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| | Friday, April 3rd (PM) You are responsible for your choices. You are not responsible for other peoples’ interpretations of or reactions to your choices. | | |
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