Tag: acceptance
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Mindful Expat Episode 14: Self-Compassion, the Two Arrows, & Learning to Surf
What you’ll hear in this episode: • How you can create a pause between your initial experience of an emotion and your reaction to it, and how doing so will allow you to cultivate more self-compassion and feel less out of control in your life. • About the differences between pain and suffering — and how our…
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Mindful Expat Episode 7: Diving Deeper into Mindfulness & Balancing Acceptance with Change
What you’ll hear in this episode: • A discussion of the different attitudes of mindfulness — beginner’s mind, non-judgment, acknowledgment, non-striving, letting be, self-reliance, and self-compassion. • That acceptance and commitment to change and growth are not in opposition to one another and can, in fact, coexist. • About my plans to attend the FIGT conference…
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Embracing Change & Going With the Flow
Heraclitus (an ancient Greek philosopher) wrote, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” I love this metaphor. The moment you step in the water, it has already moved on, constantly flowing, constantly changing. You may look at the river and see what looks…