Your year of healing
Day 1 insight
Recognize that a lot is still in your control. While you can’t stop the snow, you can open the umbrella.
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List five things that are still in your control.
Day 2 insight
Every person is resilient in a unique way. Ask not, if I am resilient; ask, how am I resilient?
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Think of your unique strengths and note them in your journal.
Day 3 insight
Just as trees grow their branches toward the sun, spend more time with the people who are your source of light.
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What’s special about the people who are the source of love and light in your life?
Day 4 insight
Your heart first serves blood to itself, to serve the body. Be kind to yourself to be kind to others.
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Note different ways you can be kind to yourself today.
Day 5 insight
Think of what made you happy before you got busy with life. It’ll give you an idea of how to be happy again.
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Try and recall a few simple things that made you happy as a child.
Day 6 insight
Although shoveling doesn’t melt the snow, it pushes the snow to the side. Some problems that can't be cured today are best brushed aside, to keep moving forward.
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Think of the problems you can push aside for now so you can live your day lifting only the next hour’s load.
Day 7 insight
Visit your past six days’ insights and writings. Pick out your best ideas and note them in your journal.
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That Makes Sense: Bite Sized Resilience Insights to Lift Your Day
The book is divided into twelve, two-week-long sections, each with a theme and an inspiring person who embodied that theme. Each day offers you a meditative insight that can provide you a calm anchor and a positive reframe to life's daily challenges.
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