Honesty is the best policy. Action: You are not your behaviors. You are not your emotions. Your behaviors are what you do; your emotions are what you feel. Each…
What are the emotions you’ve forbidden yourself to feel? Inventory Focus: Are there parts of yourself that you’re repressing, instead of expressing? Each week, you’ve been working on an…
It’s easy to believe that loving ourselves unconditionally means only accepting our lighter, brighter parts. Most of us have a lot of guilt about who we really are. Challenge:…
Trust. Trust. Trust. Again and again, that’s the issue. See how much of your pain, your anguish, your tension arises simply from not trusting the absolute perfection of the…
Here are some steps you can take on your journey to learning to comfort and support others and yourself: Make it a written goal to acquire the skills of nurturing…
Have you ever gone outside at night and looked closely at the new moon? Or looked through a telescope at the moon when it was crescent shaped? Although what…
Many of us were oppressed and victimized as children. As adults, we may continue to keep ourselves oppressed. Some of us don’t recognize that caretaking and not setting boundaries…
Sometimes, our legitimate needs and wants run amuck. We want something so badly—for instance our spouse sobering up, or that job, or that woman or that man—that we begin…
We often refer to recovery from codependency and adult child issues as “self-care.” Self-care is not, as some may think, a spin-off of the “me generation.” It isn’t self-indulgence.…