Kimberly Veith MS, LPC, CAADC

01/08/2025

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11/26/2024

Writing "Atlas of the Heart" changed pretty much everything I thought I knew about the science of emotions. On the website this week I'm sharing 10 learnings that changed how I think about stress and overwhelm. Full references are included.

Overwhelmed by many things. Grateful for even more — including this community. If you're celebrating next week, Happy Thanksgiving!

https://brenebrown.com/articles/2024/11/21/stressed-and-overwhelmed/

11/26/2024

11/24/2024

Robert Frost

11/13/2024

Free class on Friday Nov 15

11/04/2024

Whoever tries to help a butterfly come out of its cocoon, kills it. Whoever attempts to help a bud emerge from the seed, destroys it. Whoever tries to awaken consciousness in someone who is not ready, confuses him. "There are certain things that cannot be helped, they must happen from the inside out." ...

10/21/2024

Because, before self-love becomes a liberation, it is first a burden. Well, there's the anger at who treated you poorly when you didn't know to ask for better treatment. The anger at yourself for what you've allowed. There's the grief for lost time. There's the strangling necessity to push people, things, ideas out, out, out because there's no room for them. There's the loneliness and isolation that accompanies the growth of self. There's the new boundary lines, the new range of the word no, the opening of eyes that would rather be shut, and the terrifying realization that love isn't synonymous with joy. It's synonymous with growth.
And growth isn't bliss. It never was. It was a lie that said love would be white-teethed smiles on beaches.
The pinnacle of self-love is not endless ecstasy.
It is a heartbreaking process of undoing the life your unloved self built, brick by unworthy
brick.

Beautifully articulated by Jamie Varon
Art Unknown

10/21/2024

10/21/2024

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
Energy speaks louder than words.

Compassion, rather than kudos, is what leaves a legacy.

Whatever level of success you achieve in life, people will remember you more for the kindness (or lack thereof) you’ve shown them.

And if you are caught up in the expectation of immediate change, or big shows of gratitude, exhale and be patient. In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, “Don’t judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”

Send a 💛if you are willing to add kindness to your priorities!

10/09/2024

"Sympathy is easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power.

Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye, and realising that you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck."