Self-Love Possibilities: Spins from Untamed
Inspired by Glennon Doyle’s Unleashed, Patricia Morgan describes her Truest and Most Beautiful Life and lists100 ways she loves herself; at least tries.
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Ruin the Myth of ‘Helping’ with Household Chores
By knowing who contributes time to what tasks will help you better invite cooperation for sharing home responsibilities.
Why Distressed Women Tend and Befriend
The research reported by Professor Shelley E. Taylor and her team at UCLA. In 1998 they began to wonder if women had different reactions to stress than males. By 2000 they reported a phenomenon they called Tend and Befriend.
COVID-19 Coping Mindset: How to Boost Positive Self Talk
Are you fed up with COVID-19? You are not alone. You are not the only one either needing or wanting to develop a COPING Mindset. I am with you.
First Steps to Heal Your Inner Child
Discover and develop a relationship with your inner-child: make your unconscious conscious, re-parent yourself and heal your wounded child.
How to Discover Your Place of Inner Peace
This guide includes progressive relaxation, a process to discover your Place of Inner Peace, and an anchor word to effectively induce a sense of relaxation.
Avoid an Anxiety Attack with Five Ways to Calm
Although, at times, those with high resilience feel nervous, they are typically immune to feeling high anxiety. For others, full blown panic attacks can not only be frightening and exhausting but debilitating.
Increased Self-Care Needed if You are a Stressed Mother
Consider this thought “I need to provide self-care to the mother of my children.” We do our family no favor when we become a stressed mother. Our children need us at our best. To do that, we need to treat ourselves as if we are deserving and cherished. Indeed, most of us are! Mothers, whether […]
How to Manage Stress from 30 Seconds to a Lifetime!
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” Natalie Goldberg Stress Research Not long ago stress researchers made a significant discovery. We can reduce our distress and age indicators by attending […]
How to Prepare for Workplace Mental Illness
Teresa said, “Patricia, I would love to read some of your work on dealing with employees who are controlling, easily agitated and off the wall! It seems like my co-worker wants to get even with me for nothing. She starts yelling even if I dare to identify areas that could easily be improved. What are […]
Do You Care Too Much? Avoid Compassion Fatigue and Burn-out
The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it, is as unrealistic as expecting to walk through water and not get wet. Rachel Naomi Remen As a therapist, as well as, sometimes, family caregiver of those with disabilities, there have been times I needed to be […]
Mind Your Ageing Process: Make Smart Choices
Yes, that is me in the photo, with my hubby. If you are a senior citizen, I hope you, too, take time to yuck it up! Fun and play help us keep healthy; help us with resilient ageing. Yet growing older has another side. In the last couple of years, I was introduced to eyesight […]