What is self-care? an intro

You know it's been a long week when the new roll of toilet paper doesn't even make it on the holder. It sits there on the top of the empty one, ever ready to grab but not in its proper place. It might sound inappropriate, but this is how my life has felt the past couple of weeks -- not fully in place and slowly being depleted... and yes I just compared myself to toilet paper. 

Life keeps speeding up, rolling on by.  I rip off way more than I need. In the past two weeks my days have been catalogued by workshops, conferences, students, events, friends and being sick. It's enough to make me feel like putting that roll of TP on the holder really is time and effort I don't have.

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The War That Will Not End

I remember the sniper attacks.  It was only a year after 9-11 and everyone was still a little on edge.  I was in college and the war was just getting started.  I bought my shirt with a flag on it and wore it proudly.  I was and am proud to be an American, most of the time.  Last week, I was getting ready to speak at a retreat and missed the news when a man killed his fellow soldiers and the nation was on edge again. 

This evening John Allen Muhammad was put to death.  He was a soldier too.  His ex-wife claims he came home from Dessert Storm a changed man.  His lawyer decried that statement and said he wasn’t… how could you not be though?  Battles change people whether they are in the army or in a living room.  They stir dark parts of your soul and voices emerge that we didn’t even know existed; voices that haunt and prey on our esteem and our will to live in a healthy way.

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