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WEEKLY RECAP September 14th - 20th, 2019 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, September 14th (AM) Don't leap to conclusions because you struggled to do the thing. Take a step back and ask yourself what's getting in your way. Step by step--that's how we solve problems... | | |
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| | Saturday, September 14th (PM) Acknowledge it when you're having a rough time. You're not doing yourself any favors by suffering in silence...and you're probably not fooling anyone, either. | | |
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| | Sunday, September 15th (AM) Getting better often involves sacrificing things that make us feel better in the short term. It's a drag... | | |
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| | Sunday, September 15th (PM) If you have a problem with the way you're feeling or behaving, you almost certainly have a problem with your routine. | | |
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| | Monday, September 16th (AM) You are probably not as damaged as you feel. No matter what that voice in your head says. No matter what some people out in the world have told you. | | |
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| | Monday, September 16th (PM) Setting boundaries is not the most comfortable thing in the world, especially when we've been conditioned for years that it's somehow "mean" to set boundaries. | | |
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| | Tuesday, September 17th (Blog) "REAL WORD TRAUMA VS MOVIE TRAUMA." Looking at the situation from the outside, you’d think that the culture had come a long way toward acknowledging the reality of trauma and its effects. But I’m not sure we really have... | | |
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| | Tuesday, September 17th (PM) A lot of the stuff that you'll do to feel better, won't kick in right away...Give yourself time for your new skills and strategies to work...Give it time...Don't jump to conclusions about whether your new skills and strategies work until you've given it time...and monitored the results. | | |
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| | Wednesday, September 18th (AM) First thing's first: make sure there are things, even little things, in your life to feel good about and that make you feel good. You're simply not going to reduce depression by cutting out the fun, interesting, tasty things in your life... | | |
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| | Wednesday, September 18th (PM) Your relationship with yourself is fundamental. You experience it every minute of every day. You cannot escape your relationship with yourself. Make it a fair, compassionate, supportive relationship... | | |
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| | Thursday, September 19th (Blog): “BEWARE OF 'GURUS' WHO OVERSELL THEMSELVES.” There’s a reason why most personal development pages on the internet (including this one!) can’t dole out the specific strategies that will work for you in your recovery: because the specific strategies that will work for YOU are just that—specific to YOU. | | |
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| | Thursday, September 19th (PM) Others may or may not consider you valuable. Others may not find you likable. They might not find you attractive, charming, or intelligent.They may not find you cool, sexy, inspiring, worthwhile. Now: does this have any bearing on whether you are ACTUALLY any of those things? Nope. Others' perception of you has very little to do with you. It has almost everything to do with their own life experiences, which have conditioned them to label certain traits, behaviors, and visual cues certain ways. | | |
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| | Friday, September 20th (AM) Just like you have to buy into what your personal trainer tells you in order to get into shape, you're going to have to buy in to what your therapist tells you to crawl out of depression. Neither is easy. | | |
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| | Friday, September 20th (PM) Chances are, you're feeling lousy because of a combination of brain chemistry and conditioning experiences. But let's be very clear: you didn't get that brain or experience those things because you did anything wrong... | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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