I want to offer additional insight into managing yourself in toxic or confrontational situations. Any kind of perceived threat, conflict included, activates our danger-detecting networks and our body initiates a response. We either mobilize into action, freeze/withdrawal/disassociate, or move into an approval seeking, eager-to-please mode. All of these are automatic body responses so …
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JANUARY BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Happy New Year and welcome to 2021! This year I’ve decided to prioritize relationships with the people in my life: with my husband, my children, my family and my friends. So as my first January recommendation, I’m proposing a relationship building/sustaining book. The other two recommendations are beautiful stories of love, friendship, and perseverance. The …
MANY FACES OF FEAR
In his book Letting Go, David R. Hawkins talks about the many faces and the extent of fear. Constant worrying is chronic fear while paranoia is its extreme. Anxiety and phobias are somewhere in between. A milder form of fear is uneasiness, while shyness, tension, speechlessness, defensiveness, insecurity, and guiltiness are more severe. Because fear …
NOVEMBER BOOK RECOMMENDATION
As we get closer to the holidays, the hustle and the bustle of the season, I’d like to start my book recommendations by offering something we all can work on giving and use in our daily lives: Love. Love Does by Bob Goff – Bob tells such incredible stories from his life with so much …