Tag: Self Care
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Language is powerful. Words can comfort, clarify, confuse, categorize, criticize, and occasionally cause complete conversational chaos. Human beings are remarkably talented at attaching memories, assumptions, fears, expectations, and assorted emotional debris to otherwise ordinary words, then reacting to the entire pile as though the word itself showed up carrying luggage. Consider someone who asks a…
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I have had the phrase, managing expectations, come to mind quite often recently, and in different situations with myself as well as with others. I’ve felt frustrated (sometimes unreasonably so) when something didn’t go the way I wanted it too, and I’ve seen people getting angry over situations that I felt their expectations were unreasonable.…