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Find Your Way to Rest

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:August 2, 2021
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Rest because it nourishes you and adds enjoyment to your life.

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Nestle Into Uncertainty

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:July 2, 2021
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

When we allow uncertainty and hold our assumptions more lightly, we make room for change and hope.

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Inhabit Your Surface

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:June 1, 2021
  • Post category:Boundaries, Full Self

Experiment with working less hard for a while.

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A Harvest of Understanding

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:May 1, 2021
  • Post category:Hard Times, Abuse

With kind eyes, look back at this pandemic year.

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Respect Your Reservoir of Pain

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:April 1, 2021
  • Post category:Acceptance

Most of us carry old pain from the twists and turns our lives have taken.

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Embodying Hope: Introduction

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 1, 2021
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

We embody hope when we keep moving forward, one stubborn step after another, like walking through steady rain.

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Prefer Narratives with Hope, Updated

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 1, 2021
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

Try a new narrative: "My perceptions and responses make sense. I am intrinsically good. I am doing my best with the resources and knowledge I have."

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Within Sight of Relief, Pause

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 2, 2021
  • Post category:Hard Times, Abuse

Acknowledge losses and longings, and give yourself time to rest and recover.

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The “Good Person” Badge

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:December 1, 2020
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

Thanks to each of you for working so hard to be a good person.

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Kindness, Not Contempt

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 1, 2020
  • Post category:Relating

In this time of isolation, simply acknowledging someone with kind eyes is a gift.

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