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Published: April 4, 2021, 9:35 p.m.

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Self Care: Why do we think we are not OK?

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Two Natural Ladies read an excerpt from their book \\u2013 Jo starts with a discussion about why we think we are not ok? We are always too fat, too shy, and not smart enough. Jo was quite confident except in their area of her weight. A legacy of her mum and her mum\\u2019s mum.

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AN event in 2014 shifted Jo\\u2019s world forever and she questioned everything. Her confidence was shot to pieces!

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\\u201cAn empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly\\u201d Unknown

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Neuroplasticity: reprogramming our brains.

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Are we the same personality throughout our life? Some believe we are basically the same personality unless we have a brain injury or major traumatic event. Was Jo\\u2019s incident something that changed her personality? Vicki feels she has changed over the years \\u2013 but is her basic personality the same?

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Self care includes making commitments \\u2013 particularly when we are struggling. Just getting out of bed, having a shower, doing a load of washing can make a difference.

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Vicki and Jo share their mental health journey \\u2013 the things that worked and didn\\u2019t in creating mental strength

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Vicki\\u2019s life events in her late teens led her to take, for a short time, some prescription drugs for her depression/anxiety around her parents separating and her split from her boyfriend. Vicki used half the medication recommended. Using the medication to give her a bit of relief and help her retrain her brain. Now Vicki would have used diet, exercise and community involvement to help her out of her funk

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Sometimes we need a bit of relief And we are all different

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Jo and Vicki hope some of this discussion resonates with you and in some small way assists you

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The podcasts finishes with the reading of a Poem by Michael Raydan.

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Being down and out,

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Can seem never ending.

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Where nothing is positive,

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And doom is impending.

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The lights all go out,

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And clouds cover the sky.

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Leaving us broken and torn,

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Screaming why oh why.

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This terrible phenomenon,

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Is something we all will feel.

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Over the course of our lives,

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It feels so real.

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But without this experience,

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Without these times of sorrow.

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We have nothing to contrast,

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the positivity of tomorrow.

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Without the clouds,

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Covering the sky.

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We can not appreciate,

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When we see birds fly.

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We cannot understand,

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The true joy of the light.

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If we have never, not once,

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Been alone in the night.

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So embrace the dark,

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And welcome times of sorrow.

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It\\u2019s what makes us human,

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We are anything but hollow.

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And remember this,

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It\\u2019s the important one.

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When you witness the magic,

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Of life in the sun.

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And in that moment,

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You\\u2019re grateful for everyone.

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It\\u2019s because you know,

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Just what it\\u2019s like.

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To be sad, to be hurt,

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To feel life\\u2019s sharp bite.

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Michael Raydan

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