The Story in My Head: Healing & Self-Improvement for the Lazy

The Story in My Head has a main character named Frank.  He's a forgiveness octopus.  I'm focusing on Frank's 8th leg (tentacle / arm) of my forgiveness octopus...forgiving myself!  Today's quickie is the fourth part of my story...my journey towards forgiving myself and others. 

self esteem, worth, anxiety, depression, relationships, self care, transformation, healing, grief, addiction, change, authenticity 

I've decided it will be helpful for me to practice apologizing and asking for forgiveness.  The Story in My Head has told me making amends is just too hard to do sometimes.  I want to practice and make it easier.  Today's quickie is the third part of my story...my journey towards forgiving myself and others. 

forgiveness, apologies, amends, relationships, self care, transformation, healing, grief, addiction, change, marriage, parenting 

I've decided it will be helpful for me to practice forgiveness.  The Story in My Head about forgiveness is a long one and I'm working to sort it all out.  Today's quickie is the second part of my story...my journey towards forgiving myself and others. 

forgiveness, amends, relationships, self care, transformation, healing, grief, addiction, change, marriage, parenting

I've decided it will be helpful for me to practice forgiveness.  The Story in My Head poses a lot of questions about forgiveness.  Today's quickie is the first part of my story...my journey towards forgiving myself and others. 

forgiveness, amends, relationships, self care, transformation, healing, grief, addiction, change, marriage, parenting 

Even as an adult, the Story in My Head still includes a longing for and, at times, a need for permission.  Permission to act, to speak, to react, to change.  At times I feel a desire for someone to offer permission for me to be me!!!!  In this mid-week quickie I'm changing the Story in My Head by giving myself some permission. 

self care, self awareness, acceptance, forgiveness, healing, change, decision making  

Pushing boundaries is part of human nature.  It allows our curiosity to wonder and it encourages us to explore new things.  We push boundaries to investigate the consequences and discover our limits.  But when someone pushes MY boundaries? I get pissed! Today I'm working to have realistic expectations about my boundaries.  People are gonna push them.  So I'm gonna tighten them to keep myself and my feelings safe.  Check it out.     

boundaries, trauma, expectations, healing, change, relationships, self care, self love

Letting Go seems daunting at times.  Today I present a mid-week quickie visualization to experiment with for yourself.  I've practiced it a lot and found it to be helpful so I decided to share this Story in My Head. 

boundaries, change, grief, relationships, marriage, parenting, addiction, self care

The boundary between helping and enabling is not always clear.  In my quest to set new and healthier boundaries for myself, I must first admit I often enable my loved ones (and myself).  I'm sharing the Story in My Head about my enabling, and the questions I am asking myself to help me STOP!    

boundaries, relationships, recovery, addiction, co-dependency, self care, parenting, marriage, change.    In honor of Lauren, the Crazy Lady!

Minding my own business has proven to be more difficult than one may expect.  There are so many instances I find myself using my time, energy and attention on things that do not serve me or move me in the direction I want to go!  Your business is a distraction to me and this week I became aware I want to set a new boundary...How much time and energy am I willing to spend on someone else's business versus my own?

boundaries, self care, awareness, focus, change, distractions, attention, self esteem   

It's time for me to re-evaluate and set some new boundaries.  But where do I begin? At the beginning of the Story in My Head of course! Here's a mid-week quickie to start thinking about new boundaries.

self esteem, boundaries, change, relationships, self care, mindfulness, awareness