Tag: self-care
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How to Navigate Anxiety about Going to the Dentist
If you are like me, you have anxiety about going to the dentist. I think it is a lot to ask someone who has had trauma, to lay back helplessly while someone uses tiny torture devices on them. But if you have dental insurance, going to the dentist regularly can be a beneficial part of…
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Honoring One Year
Today is January 13, 2022 – it has been 1 year since Flourishing MaEum’s social media launched. When launching our social media, we had intended on posting at least once a week. That all went out the window as we started to accept the limits of our time. We have tried to honor our needs…
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Saying I Love You
Growing up, my family did not say “I love you” to one another. That didn’t mean that we didn’t love each other, it was just not a cultural norm. I grew up in a traditional Korean home. We immigrated from Seoul to New York (Queens) in 1990 and brought to the US, a frozen piece…
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Thinking About Therapy?
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou Many years ago, I was on a college retreat. There was a man who, while attempting to flirt with my friend Chrissy, was hitting her with pillows. I jumped in trying to stop his childishness. But he easily overpowered both…
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Breath
The Wonders of Your Breath Psychology The Breath is a powerful tool. We can breathe without thinking about it – it’s regulated in our autonomic nervous system, AND we can control it with our conscious minds. It connects two different parts of our brain. A slow deep exhale, slows down our heart rate.* I once…
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Self-Care for 2021
In a time of unknowns and unprecedented levels of stress, we must focus on caring for ourselves even as we care for those around us.
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