Moved and Shaken!tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1011582858311493232024-01-11T11:11:00-07:00"I am not a mover and shaker. I am the moved and the shaken!"TypePadOn My Mother's 40 Years in AAtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b02c8d3a802c2200d2024-01-11T11:11:00-07:002024-01-08T12:10:06-07:00"They obeyed that inner nudging to speak up and share something of their own "experience, strength and hope" that I know was the Perfect thing my mom needed to hear that day in order to make it ... one more day ... at a time."Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.How My Deceased Grandmother Protected Me from an Armed Burglar as I Slepttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b02942f92b62f200c2022-01-14T11:41:33-07:002022-01-14T11:39:42-07:00"I was still quite shaken by this whole experience, wondering how close I came to a much more tragic ending. I couldn’t know then that this story was about to take a miraculous turn."Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.I Can't Breathetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b0264e2e9ddec200d2020-07-22T15:35:39-07:002020-07-22T12:14:16-07:00"They tore me from my mother’s arms and put me all alone in this cage –
I can’t breathe"Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.Confessions of an Imperfect Meditator: Or, From Zafu to Snafu!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b01b7c9459b82970b2018-01-16T14:14:18-07:002018-01-16T14:09:08-07:00“OK, back to mindfulness. What am I feeling? Get back in this moment. Focus on the inhale, then focus on the --- hey, wait, I haven’t exhaled at all in the last 10 minutes! Quick, exhale! Oh, and focus on it! This moment sucks. Stop judging this moment. That last moment is already gone, so get back into this one. Well, this one sucks, too. It’s all ok; in the great cosmic scheme of things, this is just another thing, another life experience. Accept what is. No aversion. OK, but now I am averse to being in aversion. I can’t win.”Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.Mindful Self-Compassion: A Guided Meditation Scripttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b01bb0993e1c2970d2017-04-23T21:21:13-07:002017-04-23T21:09:07-07:00"The “I” that IS love, loves the “I” that is loved. I am love. Where I move, love moves. Where I sit, love sits. Where I walk, love walks. Where I am, there love is, because there I am. I am my own beloved."Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.A Woman President is Now Taken for Granted?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b01b8d20b06ee970c2016-07-29T22:29:47-07:002016-07-29T22:19:52-07:00I am one of the millions of women, Democrats and Republicans both, who last night wept tears of joy and somber gratitude, our chests heaving with the exhales of our exhausted ancestors who fought for - and finally won - our legitimate place in American history. May we never forget.Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.Self-Esteem: What it Is, What it Isn't, and Where to Go to Get Sometag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a016762eccc74970b01b8d192a943970c2016-01-16T15:53:33-07:002016-01-16T15:52:59-07:00You will give away your power. You will compromise your standards in order to ensure approval from others (this is the very definition of codependency). Weeks and months and years of doing this will stockpile your anger, which, when left unrecognized and un-addressed, will morph into resentment which will turn into bitterness, which will become cynicism. Then you will become the mean old man on the block who yells at the kids and throws rocks at the birds. Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.