Motherhood and Identity

With Mother's Day coming up, I came across this article and thought it was really good...it's so easy to forget who you are and become all about baby. Reposting for your indulgence.

http://www.spiritualwoman.net/Relation/MotherhoodIdentityCrisis.html  

Happy Mother's Day every woman, you are awesome and doing a great job for humanity : )

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Therapeutic Approaches = Confused dot com?

With so many different types of therapy and therapists out there to choose from, how do you know which one is going to be right for you?

I think this brief outline of the main therapeutic approaches is really helpful when it comes to trying to find a private therapist to work with.

http://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/a-z-therapy-approaches.htm

Hope you find it helpful too...

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Change Happens...

'...greet change with as much grace as you can muster. When change is happening it helps to live within a big wonder-question: What is the positive thing that's trying to happen in my life that makes it necessary for the old structure to fall apart?' 

- The Hendricks Institute of Conscious Living and Learning.

Love and Truth

Love this quote:

“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."

-Timothy Keller

Depression is...

Great quote from Deborah Serani, Psy.D:

'depression doesn't care if you're successful, famous or ordinary. It's an illness that distorts how you think and feel, making life seem meaningless and hopeless. It's a real medical condition -- not something that occurs from lack of character, weakness or laziness. '

Taken from this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannon-kellogg/valentines-day-depression_b_1219731.html

Honesty Sneeze!

First of all Happy New Year!

Sorry, I am not as active on here as I used to be, I have taken up the resident blogger position at Relate and this has taken up my blogging energy until that settles into a rhythm of its own. I have also gone back to working on my creative writing and poetry so my writing energies are being dispersed at the moment.

Anyway, today I read this from Gay Hendricks from The Hendricks Institute and very much enjoyed it, so am sharing.

Bless you! : )

The Erotic Possibilities Of Honesty

One thing nobody ever bothers to tell us about honesty (at least nobody ever told me): honesty feels good. In fact, if you get really focused on being microscopically honest as you go about your life, you will very likely discover that honesty feels so good it qualifies as a sexual experience. 

There's a good reason for that. Honesty has an immediate effect on your energy system. If there's something inside that you haven't told the truth about--especially if it's something important--it has the effect on your energy system of a withheld sneeze. And no matter how polite you feel by withholding a sneeze, it sure doesn't feel as good and complete, from an energy perspective, as actually sneezing.

To express an emotion or a withheld truth has that same kind of effect on our systems. If we're feeling angry or scared or sad, we need to do two things in order to have a complete energy relationship with them:

1) Feel the deepest truth of the emotion, in our bodies, and

2) Express those feelings in ways that create more aliveness in ourselves and the people around us.

Love Yourself Happy

Read this today about the power of gratitude and how the act of loving itself makes you happy...

http://conscious-transitions.com/the-power-of-gratitude/

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