| Microdosing Wellness 30mg 💊
"You have gotta trust the signs. Everything will turn out fine."
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Hi + Hello
Happy Week 30! Shout out to life, to family, to home, and to the circumstances that remind us just how important each is. Life’s ups and downs are inevitable, many of which we can’t anticipate, for better or worse. As we try to navigate each, let us be reminded that the ability to navigate them, or at least try to, is ultimately the goal. Having the option and opportunity to make something beautiful no matter how it started is a gift.
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✍🏾 #RandomSessionNotes
1. Passivity is not protection.
2. We need motivation and incentive to change.
3. Recognize your 'slippery slope' and when you're about to slide down it.
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🔧 Tips, Tricks, and Tidbits
Sympathy and empathy are often used interchangeably, but they describe two different ways of responding to someone else's pain. Sympathy is recognizing that someone is hurting and feeling concern or compassion for what they're going through. Empathy goes a step further. It involves making an effort to understand what the experience might feel like from their point of view and responding from that understanding, without making it about ourselves. While both have value, empathy often creates a deeper sense of connection because people are more likely to feel seen, heard, and understood. We can empathize without absorbing someone else's emotions or taking them on as our own. Healthy empathy allows us to connect with others while maintaining the boundaries needed to care for ourselves as well. Both have their place, and it takes awareness and practice to recognize which one the moment is asking for.
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😏 Unrelated Musings
I pay attention when messages strike more than once. Recently in a session, I said that passivity isn’t protection. Away with family over the weekend, I saw a post-it that said ‘‘conflict avoidance ≠ consequence avoidance.” Same message, different pathways. Heard. It, of course, made me think of my own tendency to stay quiet to ‘keep the peace’. I thought times I’ve silently said that I’ll handle it on my own instead of asking for what I need or addressing the discomfort I was feeling. I also have to admit I’m guilty of totally backing away into the bush a la Homer (see below) to avoid the possibility of hurting or disappointing someone, which obviously makes no sense because the disappearance itself leaves people hanging. For some of us, taking the risk to work on this feels big. Call it our anxiety and/or anxious attachment or some other mental and emotional situation or condition, it’s real. No matter what we call it, I do believe that overcoming this habit or conditioning IS worth the risk. If there is anything to avoid, it’s betraying ourselves by not giving ourselves a chance to speak up, to be understood, to be worked with, to learn, and the opportunity to find regulation and resolution outside of our own mental maneuvering.
My favorite possible self writes another blog post in approximately one week! My mantra says I follow through, so I must! See you there!
xo janelle
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