self-care
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Self-Care
What doesself-carelook likefor you? For meit's silence,solitude,a blank page,a pen. What doesself-carelook likefor you? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Therapy, Again
The therapist summed it up: "You have unresolved grief." "You are anxious and at times depressed." "You need help getting your thoughts under control." "Perfectionism makes all of this harder to embrace." So there it… Continue reading
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User’s Manual
I'm looking for my user's manual,the one I'm sure my parents were givenwhen someone bundled me upand sent me homefrom the Lila J. Post Memorial Hospitalin Battle Creek, Michigan,60 years ago,the manual describing care and upkeep,feeding,cleaning,avoiding undo wear and tear.… Continue reading
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Sabbatical
To those of you have followed my blog, offered comments, expressed appreciation and encouraged me, I thank you. It is time for me to take a break. I'm going on haitus to focus my energy on healing. It's my hope… Continue reading
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Psychic Knots
I spent this morninguntying psychic knots… not unlike untangling Christmas lights, or undoing the knot I unintentionally yanked into my shoelace, or loosening the matted hair in my cat's calico coat,except this is a mass of my… Continue reading
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Sleep Calls Me
Sleep calls meon a quiet Saturday afternoonwhen the ironing and vacuuming are doneand it's not yet time to start dinner. She calls me from the bedroom,where she's already lured the catsinto one, black, circular mass of slow breathingand entwined limbs.… Continue reading
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Self-Doubt/Self-Care
When I struggle with self-doubt, the appropriate response is self-care. I can defer the doubt with the promise of self-appraisal later, when the doubt has subsided (which it always does) and any self-appraisal, therefore, can be clearer, cleaner. How to… Continue reading