Psychotherapist Melinda Bailey discusses the treatment of common issues she has encountered in couples therapy.
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Emotional intelligence
The emotionally intelligent person knows that love is a skill, not a feeling, and will require trust, vulnerability, generosity, humor, sexual understanding, and selective resignation. The emotionally intelligent person awards themselves the time to determine what gives their working life meaning and has the confidence and tenacity to try to find an accommodation between their inner priorities and the demands of the world. The emotionally intelligent person knows how to hope and be grateful, while remaining steadfast before the essentially tragic structure of existence. The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm. There are few catastrophes, in our own lives or in those of nations, that do not ultimately have their origins in emotional ignorance. ~Alain de Botton
(Book: The School of Life https://amzn.to/3OQMf6w)
(Art: Photograph of Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward)
The Witch Wound –
Witch and Crone translate to “ Wise woman”
THE WITCH WOUND
They call it the ‘witch wound’.
We were punished you see, broken, slain, for shining too brightly.
So we learned to hide that spark.
We learned to play it down, play dumb, play dead.
And we were taught to fear the light within us, lest it herald our downfall.
But not anymore.
You are not a wicked witch my friend, you are quite simply, or complicatedly, a woman.
And your magic is not something you can choose, or lose.
It always is, and always has lived within you.
And you need no longer hide it.
I call it the witch wound, but the time to heal is here.
Now.
Let that magic out.
Donna Ashworth
From ‘Wild Hope’ 🩶
Art by Waya Raventalker. #thewitchestreebyraventalker #raventalker
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Tell yourself this upon rising
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural. ~Marcus Aurelius
(Book: Meditations https://amzn.to/3Zk2htn)
(Art: Painting by Maximilien Luce)
Not like them
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”
Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. ~Timothy Leary
(Source: book reference unclear/Consider one of Leary’s most famous books: Turn on, Tune in, Drop out https://amzn.to/45Icv96)
(Art: Photograph by Baron Wolman)
Woman
- When choosing a woman who works, you have to accept that she can’t handle the house.
*If you have chosen a housewife who can take care of you and fully manage your household, you have to accept that she is not earning money.
- If you choose an obedient woman, you must accept that she depends on you and you must ensure her life.
- If you decide to be with a strong woman, you have to accept that she is tough and she has her own opinion.
- If you choose a beautiful woman, then you will have to accept big expenses.
- If you decide to be with a successful woman, you must understand that she has character and has her own goals and ambitions.
There are no such things as perfect. Everyone has their own riddle, which makes us unique.
Stop and think 😉…
ctto
Sherrie Campbell Ph D
The most effective way to work through the emotional pain caused by your toxic family is to feel that pain. So many of us don’t want to feel the pain, so we resist it. Unfortunately, whatever we resist will persist.
To heal your pain, you must learn to embrace it. Embracing means experiencing the loss, devastation, anger, grief and sadness. As difficult as this may be, it is critical that you allow the tears to flow and to share your experience with others. Telling your story is incredibly healing.
It is best to stop judging yourself so harshly by either punishing yourself for still feeling your pain, or through begging your pain to have mercy on you. Just be with it. Write it out, talk it out, exercise it out, pray it out, dance it out etc. Do whatever it is you need to. But mostly, respect your pain. It means that something really mattered to you.
The man with no ID ; Kentucky “ Simple Man “
Self talk supported by the Universe
I began this process in 2004 , and stopped my inner talk abuse , and was kinder and gentler , ” mothering ” myself as I deserved to be instead of self abuse and neglect .
Forgiveness of self , and forgiving as much as possible ..reclaiming my highest good , my highest self , forgiving errors …
It makes a difference 😘
GreatCosmicMothersUnite 