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28/11/2023

RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn’t get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

“What are you struggling with?” he asked.

I gestured around me and said “I dunno man. Life.”

Not satisfied with my answer, he said “No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?”

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn’t want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound. But I didn’t. So I told him,

“Honestly? The dishes. It’s stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I’ll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes.”

I felt like an idiot even saying it. What kind of grown woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with actual problems, and I’m whining to my therapist about dishes? But my therapist nodded in understanding and then said:

“RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.”

I began to tell him that you’re not supposed to, but he stopped me.

“Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares? Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules.”

It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon. The next day, I took a shower lying down. A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever they fit. There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I’m in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry. But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!
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Credit ~ Kate Scott

01/11/2023

Living with a Broken Heart

Remember what the Tin Man said in the “Wizard of Oz” after he finally got a heart….
“Now I know I've got a heart because it’s breaking.”

If someone you love died,
your heart is probably broken.

So how do you live with a broken heart? The answer isn’t how you fix it or move beyond it.

The skill is learning to live with your grief as an ongoing way of being in the world.
It’s the way you honor that which you love.

What I’m proposing is that, with enough healing, living with heartbreak can become natural, and very normal.

From my personal and professional experience, I can tell you that as you embark on your healing journey,
you’ll start crying a whole lot more.
Not just to clear pain, but for the simplest of everyday reasons, and out of nowhere.

You’ll cry when you see a bird, a can of paint, an apple, or even the shape of a cloud.

Random things will make you cry.

The heart is designed to grieve, it wants to grieve…..it has to grieve!

Especially when it’s broken.

This is the price you pay for love.

The loss of the life you thought you had, the life you once knew and held so dear.

Loss of a dream you believed was true.

But you can also find and feel grief in opening your heart.

Opening it to love and to new possibilities. Opening it to what the future holds.
Isn’t that what life is all about?
Endings and beginnings, closings and openings?

The heart was designed to navigate you through this forever winding adventure called life.

But you have to be willing to feel…..and to live with a broken heart.

Here’s the thing…..you can learn to live with your broken heart by befriending your grief.

You can discover the love that still exists around you…..and share that love with others who are also living with a broken heart.

Gary Sturgis - “Surviving Grief”

06/01/2023

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06/01/2023

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05/01/2023

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THE FEMALE BODY

The female body was never supposed to be smooth, firm and flawless.
It was designed to create life, to host life, to feed life.
Yes there are many other amazing aspects to us all and this design in no way defines us, but…underpinning our fight to retain a ‘figure’, is a whole network of genetics, science and an entire evolutionary process which wants to create, store and produce fat for protection and hormonal health.
So, if you are losing a battle for slimness, do not for a moment think this is all your fault.
You are trying to blow away the wind.

Feed yourself well, physically, mentally and spiritually, and then enjoy your life with the vessel you inhabit.
It’s a one shot only thing.
Peace, laughter and acceptance are the best medicines around.

Donna Ashworth Words

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Art ‘Hilda’ by Duane Bryers

05/01/2023

Hypnotherapy can help you to break old, unhelpful habits, build inner strength and focus, to guide you along the rocky road of life. Initial consultations are always free with no obligation to book a follow on appointment.
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02/10/2022

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“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
Kahlil Gibran
Charles William Bartlett - Mother and Child, 1900.

02/10/2022

It's not a selfish act to set boundaries, it's crucial to your emotional well being and survival. You are just as important as anyone else. So start today, give yourself the love and respect that you deserve.

10/09/2022

When your mental health is declining, that isn’t the time to trust everything you’re feeling because so much of it is clouded behind a fog negative things you’re telling yourself and believing.
When your mental health is declining, you won’t be good at things you usually are good at because emotionally you don’t have the capacity to handle what you usually do.
But that’s okay.
If you’re a perfectionist the hardest thing is the guilt you’ll feel for your inability to do what you’ve done in the past.
Let go of those high standards and expectations you have for yourself, just for a little while.
When your mental health is declining that isn’t the time to judge yourself for not being your best, your only goal should be tackling the day even if your only accomplishment is something small like making it through that day.
Pause.
Take a deep breath and know that just because you are judging yourself at your worst doesn’t mean that is who you are.
- Kirsten Corley

27/08/2022

Start today. Every step, no matter how small, takes you in the right direction.
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