Tag Archives: disconnect
Perspective
A friend listens and emphasize, but they won’t always ask the hard questions to help you see the situation from a new perspective and to figure out how to make changes. One way to help yourself is to ask this … Continue reading
Thank you
I texted my father — our first message in months — asking if the link he had sent to an online photo album was real. He said it was. I selected the first photo: Two-year-old me, smiling wide, nestled in … Continue reading
Break Through
One of her biggest break throughs was realizing that her own anxiety was stirred by seeing anxious patients, and theirs was stirred by hers. She created a more comfortable environment in her clinic, such as practicing mindful listening and offering … Continue reading
Mindful Conditions
Yes. Mindfulness doesn’t make us happier exactly, but it helps us know clearly when we are happy and when we are unhappy, and that means we are less likely to perpetuate our own suffering through doing things that make ourselves … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 