Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP January 4th - 10th, 2020 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, January 4th (AM) Making changes is often not terribly rewarding in the short term. In fact, many changes, in the short term, are a real bummer. | | |
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| | Saturday, January 4th (PM) If you really want to be personally responsible and self accountable, you have to be fair to yourself as well. | | |
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| | Sunday, January 5th (AM) Sometimes you’re going to want other people to be there. You’ll ask for them to be there. You’ll take the risk of reaching out, just like we’re always encouraged to do during mental health awareness month. And they won’t be there. There are lots of reasons someone you reach out to might be unavailable. But what part of you is going to try to TELL you is, it’s all about you. | | |
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| | Sunday, January 5th (PM) Have you heard it said that you have to love yourself, before someone else will love you? What kind of nonsense is that? There are a LOT of people out there who really, really struggle with loving themselves. And the overwhelming majority of those people are loved. Your subjective feelings of lovability have nothing to do with whether someone else can, or does, love you. | | |
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| | Monday, January 6th (AM) When you set boundaries with someone—especially if it’s someone who isn’t used to you setting boundaries with them— it often doesn’t work on the first try. | | |
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| | Monday, January 6th (PM) A lot of people don’t meditate because they think they don’t have the time— usually because they’re overwhelmed with their work or other responsibilities. | | |
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| | Tuesday, January 7th (Blog) "YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR FEELINGS. YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR EXPERIENCES." We have a tendency to become over identified with what we’re feeling. In the moment when we’re feeling sometime intense, it’s as if we BECOME that feeling. We forget that we are a person, EXPERIENCING a feeling— and that feelings pass. | | |
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| | Tuesday, January 7th (PM) Thinking in terms of patterns and habits really is the key to constructing a life we like and value. Patterns are built and maintained day by day. We have to figure out how to manage our behavior in little, manageable chunks every day— every hour, if necessary. Our job, day by day, is to figure out how to stay on course. Not how to solve the whole problem. Not how to move heaven and earth. | | |
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| | Wednesday, January 8th (AM) A lot of the time the word “trigger” is misunderstood and misused. Some people use it to trivialize and belittle the emotional reactions of other people. | | |
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| | Wednesday, January 8th (PM) Your life really will improve— you really will feel better— as you pay attention to the day to day things. The daily goals. The daily lists. The daily routine and rituals. | | |
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| | Thursday, January 9th (Blog): “TRYING TO OUTRUN YOUR SYMPTOMS WILL MAKE THEM WORSE.” In order to manage symptoms, we have to accept that we’re experiencing them, be able to describe them, and investigate what triggers or exacerbates them. We have to look at them, in other words— even if we’re afraid. | | |
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| | Thursday, January 9th (PM) You can feel like quitting and choose not to quit. You can doubt whether you can do something and try to do it anyway. You can question your worth and treat yourself as worthy anyway. Our feelings are not always accurate barometers of what we can do or what we deserve. | | |
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| | Friday, January 10th (AM) Your life— especially your internal, psychological and emotional life— is yours. Nobody else gets to dictate what goes on in your head and heart. | | |
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| | Friday, January 10th (PM) Even when we heal…we still have certain scars. It’s okay. We wouldn’t be human if we just surrendered or forgot about our pain. To heal is not to forget our pain. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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