“Don’t judge a book by its cover!” We all like to spout this cliché, but few of us truly adhere to it, myself included. We live in a diverse, complicated world. We rely on our senses to navigate it—sight being one. We make assessments based on the images and...
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Healing with Acronyms: MISFIT
Manifest Inner Strength Find Individual Truth Remember the “island of misfit toys” in Rudolph? The winter wonderland where all the oddball toys huddled in the cold with tear-streamed faces lamenting how once again Santa left them behind and they’d...
Healing with Acronmys: PAST
Pull All Stuff Together And put it in a box. Can’t change the past. The past will come back to haunt you. Stop living in the past as the present is all we get that’s why it’s called the present for it’s the gift of today. We’ve all heard...
Healing with Acronyms: CRY
Comply Release Yield We know the rules. They've been drummed into our heads since before we could speak the word internet, let alone navigate it, and the repercussions of those words have pounded in our brains ever since every time we've felt the urge....
Healing with Acronyms: STUPID
Send Tenderness Understanding Patience Inclusion Daily “Stupid is as stupid does.” One of the most memorable trademark lines from FORREST GUMP, it elicits laughter when said in context of the movie. And there is a gem to be found here as we all do stupid...
Healing With Acronyms: GUILT
Generate Understanding Initiate Living Truthfully Guilty pleasure. Guilt by association. Guilty conscious. Guilty verdict. Guilty as sin. Seems guilt is ubiquitous nowadays. Everywhere we turn someone is guilty of something. Guilt conjures images of...
Healing With Acronyms: BETRAYAL
Beyond Expended/Extolled/Experienced Turmoil Realization/Reality Always Yields Amazing Lessons/Leaps/Love Betrayal cuts to the core. It can even destroy our sense of trust in others, sense of trust in self. When we view betrayal as an attack upon self at...