Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP October 5th - 11th, 2019 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, October 5th (AM) Know what you're going to do when your best intentions and most well laid plans don't work out. Be prepared to handle it when things go sideways. | | |
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| | Saturday, October 5th (PM) Ask yourself: if this situation was resolved, what would have had to have happened? What would I have to be able to do? That guides the skill or tool you choose. | | |
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| | Sunday, October 6th (AM) Experiencing depression doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong...Believe me when I tell you: depression is not your fault. It's almost always the result of an interaction between your genetics, your brain chemistry, and your conditioned thought patterns... | | |
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| | Sunday, October 6th (PM) You're not weird, unusual, or inadequate if you fail to see the "growth" or "learning opportunity" in pain. Some people will try to tell you that all pain involves an opportunity to existentially grow or to learn something about yourself or the world. I'm not sure I buy that. | | |
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| | Monday, October 7th (AM) Your head does not mess you up. Your head and gut are designed to work TOGETHER. Each knows and is good at stuff the other doesn’t and isn’t. When in doubt: slow down. Breathe. Think. Check in. | | |
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| | Monday, October 7th (PM) It’s never too late to turn not just your life around...but your day around as well. Maybe your day’s been lousy so far. Maybe it seems like the world is conspiring to frustrate and exhaust you today. It happens. | | |
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| | Tuesday, October 8th (Blog) "WE ARE ALL MYSTERIES SEEKING A SLEUTH." It’s hard to feel connected to the world when you feel essentially unseen and unknown. It’s hard to feel truly liked and appreciated, let alone loved, when you feel essentially unseen and unknown. | | |
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| | Tuesday, October 8th (PM) Your brain needs fun, it needs diversion, and I dare say it even needs silliness. Believe me: you can be super serious about your goals and values, and still have a life that's full of humor and fun. You can be incredibly focused on what's important, while still appreciating the absurdity and randomness of life. | | |
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| | Wednesday, October 9th (AM) Your worth is not determined by how other people treat you. Our value as human beings does not decline when people abuse, bully, or neglect us. | | |
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| | Wednesday, October 9th (PM) You need to take your own needs and experiences seriously. You can't realistically expect to develop self-love if you're mocking, berating, and dismissing yourself all the time. | | |
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| | Thursday, October 10th (Blog): “I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU COULD BE ADDICTED TO...” At its most fundamental level, “addiction” refers not to substance use or abuse…but to self-defeating behaviors that we engage in over and over again, because those behaviors offer us either a “high” or some type of soothing that we desperately want... | | |
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| | Thursday, October 10th (PM) It may be the case that you were never shown how to love yourself. You may have never even been taught that you were deserving of love. Now you may be in a place where you neither know how to love yourself...or believe that you even deserve love in the first place. What you need to know is that you deserved better. What you need to know is, you can LEARN to love yourself. | | |
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| | Friday, October 11th (AM) Putting together your emotional management toolbox is all about noticing and experimenting with what works for YOU. Nobody can hand you exactly the right prescription for managing your emotions, because nobody else is in your skin. | | |
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| | Friday, October 11th (PM) You know that thing you're putting off? Work on it for two minutes A hundred twenty seconds. You're probably going to take two minutes to scroll Facebook anyway. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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