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Candidates for Qualified Relationships
Excerpt from How to Be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes by those very facts unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless…
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Project Stability Sammy: Kitchen & Relationship With Self
This morning I spent thinking about jobs and money instead of prioritizing my housing. I went in circles about what I could do researching different kinds of opportunities. I kept thinking of this TedTalk I watched yesterday while cleaning the living room about by Tracy McMillan about needing to marry yourself before you can have…
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Project Stability Sammy: Relationship Reading List
As I process my burnout, I feel super strongly that the main cause of my burn out was because I didn’t have the relationships I needed to support me. More than that, that the relationships I did have were draining, unhealthy and not safe for me aka “toxic”. I worry at times if I was…
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Project Stability Sammy
I am unstable. I know that. I am unstable, I am unwell. I am mentally unhealthy. That is why I am on sick leave right now from work. Again. Twice this year. Imagine humpty dumpty on a wall and having a great big fall, and then putting yourself together again – this is my second…
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Creating my own in-patient program
To begin to heal, I need to have safety and stability. This is what in-patient programs do, they take a person out of their environment where they do not feel safe, and place them in a safe environment so that they can heal. While this works for some, for others the in-patient program, or mental…