Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP December 7th - 13th, 2019 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, December 7th (AM) The story of your success, in recovery and life, will be the story of your habits and rituals. Not the once in awhile habits or rituals. The every. Damn. Day. Habits and rituals. | | |
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| | Saturday, December 7th (PM) So maybe you’re not terribly motivated at this second. It’s okay, that happens. Motivation ebbs and flows. Our motivation is largely determined by our focus. | | |
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| | Sunday, December 8th (AM) Why do we aspire to do certain things? Because we think doing certain things will help us FEEL certain ways. Why do we aspire to have certain things? Because we think having certain things will help us FEEL certain ways. | | |
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| | Sunday, December 8th (PM) The main reason we obsess over things we can’t control is defensive. We don’t want to be caught by surprise. We figure if we keep an eye on that big, scary thing we can’t control, at the very least we’ll be able to duck or dodge . . . | | |
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| | Monday, December 9th (AM) There are things about you that are true…that may not FEEL true. Things like, you are worthy. Things like, you have a future. Things like, you can do what you need to do. But just because something doesn’t FEEL true, doesn’t mean it isn’t true. | | |
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| | Monday, December 9th (PM) Your first responsibility is to create a life that YOU can live with. Not that anyone else necessarily understands or approves of. You have to figure out what makes life interesting and meaningful to YOU . . . No one else goes to bed and wakes up in your skin. | | |
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| | Tuesday, December 10th (Blog) "THE MOST UNDERRATED TOOL IN YOUR TOOLBOX. FOR REAL." One of the simplest, but most important and effective, tools you’ll ever use in your recovery or therapy is the check in. To use the check in, here’s what you need to do— are you ready? | | |
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| | Tuesday, December 10th (PM) If you survived the trauma, you can survive the recovery. It may not feel that way, but it is absolutely true. Nobody may understand what you’ve been through. Nobody may understand what you’re going through . . . But you survived because you are tough and lucky. | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 11th (AM) When behavior changes out of shame, it’s almost always accompanied by resentment…and resentment festers. | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 11th (PM) It’s hard to have healthy self esteem when you’ve learned to prioritize others’ opinions and comfort over what you truly want . . . | | |
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| | Thursday, December 12th (Blog): “THE EFFECTIVE EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT TOOL YOU’RE ALREADY USING” Every moment of every day, whether we’re consciously aware of it or not, our brains are always doing two things: asking questions and making lists. Our questions and our lists direct our focus. | | |
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| | Thursday, December 12th (PM) I don’t want you to be perfect. What I want is for you to be on a realistic, upward trajectory. Think about it this way: if you have one hundred opportunities over, say, the course of a week, to utilize your skills and tools, someone in the early stages of recovery might successfully take, let’s say, ten to twenty of those opportunities. That’s okay. Better than zero. Now the goal is to make it twenty five or thirty opportunities taken to use skills... | | |
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| | Friday, December 13th (AM) It’s hard to make progress without accountability. And everyone’s needs for accountability are different. | | |
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| | Friday, December 13th (PM) People don’t go to therapy because they are weak. They go to therapy because they are strong. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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