MAINTAINING BALANCE AND NURTURING YOUR SOUL

When I was 50 years old, I had been teaching school for 30 years. I had taught many different subjects in many different schools to many different grades … and I had loved all of it.  What I didn’t realize until it was almost too late for me is that I was a little like that frog who doesn’t realize the water his is in is getting hotter and hotter until it was too late for him to jump out.  I really didn’t realize know how the stress of the job had been building for all of those years until I was near the point of burn-out.

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[Build on emotions listed in right-hand column on “Managing Complex Systemic Change” …. make the point that our bodies are complex systems that are changing all the time.]

BASIC TOOLS [Write short descriptions for each]

Emotional Ladder #1

Emotional Ladder #2

 

STORIES:

A Poem for Zoe

This was the first draft of A Poem for Olivia. It explains how I used the Emotional Ladder when I found out that Shannon was pregnant in January 2014.  That was when I first realized how powerful it is as a stress management tool.

 

Does “Dictionary of Misunderstood Terms” go here?  This is what causes stress in relationships … maybe in ALL relationships.  From the Tower of Babel on …

• 11/17/16:  “Conversation”   (Hot Tub – Drain Wed – 8 days) / Keys: 4 sets … )