This group is primarily women, and, typically, we have from a very young age been taught to care for others first. While not a BAD trait in itself, often we are NOT taught how to care for ourselves or even recognize or honor our own needs. We stuff feelings of impatience, longing, and hurt down, …
Take Your (emotional) Temperature
Yesterday we talked about love tanks, and how to fill them. Today, we are talking about Stress Buckets. We all have a baseline stress level that we can handle. Once our life gets pushed past that line, we find ourselves less able to cope with everyday challenges. In normal times, we all create lives and …
Love
It's International Love Day. So today, we are going to focus on LOVE. Love is a many splendored thing, Love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love. BUT. When you are stuck in a house with the same people for 8 weeks, often being crazy in love is not the first …
Create Routines
We all fell into this quarantine thing together, and we have been making up the rules as we go along. But humans are created to crave stability. And the things we did for the first few weeks in crisis mode have now become the new normal. If you feel like you spend most of your …
Cry
Let me tell you a story about my friend (and, for once my 'friend' isn't myself...) She has been working full time from home, homeschooling two elementary schoolers, cooking 3 meals a day, and this week, her husband has had to work excessively long hours out of the home. Yesterday, she found out that May way …
Laugh
When is the last time you belly laughed? Like, cheeks hurt, wiping tears away laughed? Chances are, it’s been awhile. Research shows that when we are around people, we tend to laugh more, and when we are alone, we just crack a smile, or just mentally acknowledge that something is funny. Laughter has huge health …
One Minute Rule
We are inside our houses all day, every day. The number of tasks and chores to be done is overwhelming. It’s very tempting to just throw up your hands and quit and settle in to the comfortable life of ignoring the dirty dishes, unfolded laundry, and mountains of toys surrounding you. Which is fine. Until …
Forgive.
There isn't a lot going on right now to distract us from being stuck in our thoughts. This gives us plenty of time to dwell on unhappy situations, people who have hurt us, and times in life where we have been treated wrongly. In psychology, this pattern of thought is called 'rumination', which, is also …
Self Care Tips- Make Time to Unwind.
One of the hardest parts of quarantine is that there is no ‘commute’ between work and home- a dedicated transition time between productive time and home time. Or, for those of you not (or no longer) working, there is no definition between time to be doing productive things at home or with family, and time …
Attend to Your Relationships
We've been in quarentine for going on 6 weeks now. That's 6 weeks without going to our regular social outings, meetings, work, going to church, or even going to a restaurant with friends. That kind of departure from a normal routine can be devastating for a person who struggles with depression or lonliness in a …
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