Tag: emotional management
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I’m currently writing this post on my cellphone (a first for me), Travis asleep in my arms not wanting to be put down after getting his 10 week vaccinations this morning. I’m surrendering to the fact that I might not find a gap to sit and write this on my laptop, and if I don’t…
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Throughout my pregnancy I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating what life will be like after our baby is born. It’s a life change that I can imagine is not quite like any other – one day life is how it’s always been, and the next not only do you have a new little member…
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We live in a busy society. From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed it can seem as if we’re on a non-stop run to the finish line…which would be great IF we knew where the finish line even was. But we don’t know, because there isn’t one, and so…
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Lockdown was kind of great at times; it forced us all to take a step back, slow down and take stock of everything that was truly important to us. For some, lockdown meant a significantly slower and smaller world, whereas for others who had to juggle working from home with home-schooling their kids, running a…
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A guest post by Cindy-Lee Moon No,Is a necessary magicNo,Draws a circle around youWith chalkAnd saysI have given enough– Boundaries My failure to set boundaries resulted in allowing myself to be too accessible and therefore caused me great resentment toward the very people who I allowed in. In an ideal world, if I had learned the practice…
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As human beings we like to feel safe and have a sense of control over our lives. Having a sense of routine and knowing what’s going to come next in our day, our week, or our year helps us mentally and emotionally prepare and acts as a kind of security blanket that keeps us safe…
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It’s easy to feel as if life is happening to us – as if we have no control or no say in what happens in our stories. Especially as we all navigate the repercussions of this global pandemic it’s so natural to slip into a victim mentality where we struggle to comprehend just how little…
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Emotions come and go like waves; ever-changing and an endless cycle of ebb and flow. Although we experience these emotional shifts in our regular lives, the amount of space that lockdown has created in our lives has given way for these waves to be experienced more intensely, and the grief, anxiety and uncertainty that has…
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Written by Shavon Cox My earliest memory of journaling was back in grade five when I would write about my day-to-day life and its happenings in a diary that had one of those incorporated lock and keys. Writing in my diary made me feel like I had my life together at the age of ten…
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Self-love can be such a vague concept; we all kind of know what it is, but knowing how to really do it can be a bit trickier. A few months ago I dived into what self-love really is and I spoke about the fact that self-love isn’t only about being kind to ourselves and indulging…