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Guest Post by Richard, who was kind enough to send me his recap on last night’s Self-Care Workshop:
Salient points:
- We are not special by our pain, we are special by who we are.
- I use what I have (am).
- The natural laws stay constant. There are small differences between each person. The divisions are flat.
- Benefit of medical evaluation first to rule out physical causes, then look at outside of medical.
- We inflict the pain not the biology.
- We are in the present, trying to reach goals that will never be completely reached.
- The agenda within, (such as your job.)
- Unwrap and fight for your freedom, illustrated by our national history.
- Stigma is biological.
- Guilt is not always a choice.
- Relinquish opinions of others. Cannot change how others consider or view us as related to those who knew who we were at a different point in “our story.” …I guess stigma is in the eye of the beholder?
- The initiation of self-care is a difficult first step.
Question: how do you get loved ones to take the first step or do you?
-Richard
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What an incisive summary! I do not have to ask, then, after how the wirkshop went:-) This is a list I can stick to my fridge and think about for ages…
An effective but little used strategy to elicit a response or design the behavior of others is to model the behavior.
I love the summary; makes me wish I lived on the other side of the country.
I stopped altogether asking loved to meet me for who I am… not a crazy person, but sane, normal person with the occasional mental problem. Marie.
Way to go, Dad!!!!
yah! way to go dad!