From time to time may of us are deluged with donation requests from worthy causes. The inability to act on all of them can sometimes make us feel cheap or selfish. Here’s the related paradox, though: I’m pretty sure it doesn’t often occur to cheap, selfish people to feel that way! So what can you do when your generous impulses outstrip your budget? When there is too much month left at the end of the money? Here’s a list of cheap (as in “free” or “inexpensive”)…
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9 Readers Comment on The Inner Critic Advantage
Earlier this week I commented to a friend that I was feeling stuck — just couldn’t seem to get my mojo mo-ing. My brain needed a kick in the butt. I don’t *think* the struggle has been with my inner critic: the stuck feeling is pretty irrational. I’m involved with some wonderful projects that are moving toward fruition. Perhaps that stuckness has more to do with projects moving at a reasonable pace; perhaps I’m missing the adrenalin rush that comes barreling toward an impossible deadline at…
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8 Places Where You, Self-Care, and Advocacy Meet
I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy. Avocate is both a noun and a verb. I remember very few profesional situations in which it wasn’t a significant component of the work. Child protection. Addiction treatment. Domestic violence and sexual assault services. Community action and anti-poverty work. When I think about the timeframes of my work in those arenas, the need for advocates makes a lot of sense. We were needed to speak up for alcoholics and other addicts as sick people who needed treatment rather than…