If Your Compassion Does Not Include Yourself, It Is Incomplete
I’ve come to see that being human is a dance. Sometimes we are caught up in our thoughts, mainly about ourselves, e.g. my weight, my...
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gina popejoy
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
I am not my thoughts, I have thoughts
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which...
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gina popejoy
- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
You Can't Not Matter
You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important - Abilene to Mae Mobley from the movie "The Help" I matter. How can I not matter? I am part...
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gina popejoy
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
Removing the Lenses of Our Stories
It’s like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety...
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gina popejoy
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Accepting Our Humanity
"What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every...
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gina popejoy
- Aug 21, 2021
- 2 min
I Don't Know
There is enormous freedom in remembering how little we actually know. Dr. Amy Johnson I have three treasured friends experiencing major...
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gina popejoy
- Aug 7, 2021
- 3 min
Self-Pity Contracts, Self-Compassion Expands
When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives." Kristin Neff I was going through a...
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gina popejoy
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Compassion for an Agitated Brain
"A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can cange the course of your life." - Christopher K....
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gina popejoy
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
Why I Coach
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot I coach because I spent a lot of time and effort...
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gina popejoy
- Jul 8, 2021
- 4 min
The Habit of Self-Criticism
"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud becasue they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the...
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gina popejoy
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
Death & This Wild and Precious Life
I’m in a gratitude group. We text daily. This month we’ve been appreciating gratitude through the lens of poetry. Today we read a...
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gina popejoy
- Jun 18, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding Insecure Thinking
Mariellen my stepmom died this week. She was my stepmom for over 40 years. She loved my sister Connie and I fiercely. She never had...
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gina popejoy
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
Life on life's terms
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door – Emily Dickinson Today my 81-year-old dad’s house cleaner quit. She’s the third...
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gina popejoy
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
Anxiety Wants to Tell a Story
Me: What could possibly go wrong? Anxiety: I'm glad you asked! A rush, a jolt, a ripple, a tingle. All energy. And the anxious narrator...
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gina popejoy
- May 15, 2021
- 4 min
Mr. and Mrs. Reptilian
From Understanding comes love - Rumi For way too long, Paul, my husband, and I argued a lot. Simple disagreements could turn into loud,...
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gina popejoy
- May 9, 2021
- 2 min
Pause practice creates an open doorway to sacredness of the place in which you find yourself – Pema
My brain is similar to a radar looking for threats, when it cannot find one, it expands its area to what could be threatening in the...
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gina popejoy
- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
Growth and Freedom
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
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gina popejoy
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Faulty Premises - Human Principles
"Every human being is sitting in the middle of mental health, they just don't know it." Sydney Banks A faulty premise that causes much...
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gina popejoy
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Me Oh My Oh My
To the brain, everything is about me and my. It is obsessed with itself. It loves to chat about my life, my job, my weight, etc. The...
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gina popejoy
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Spiraling Into Nachos
Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom – Debasish Mridha MD I made a whopper of a mistake...
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