Tag: Self-Acceptance

In my previous post about bullying, I touched briefly on forgiving yourself for being weak. I believe accepting your physical weakness is a topic that deserves its own post. From the stand point of our survival instincts, being labeled as weak is fatal. Some animal moms will reject a...

Bullying is a big concern for parents of school-aged children. It is certainly something that I keep an eye out for with my own children, and I’ve also witnessed a handful of incidents while they play after school. In the 12 years since the time my oldest entered PreK,...

One of the insults many people seem to enjoy hurling at each other is about how ignorant they think the other person is. This seems to be universal. It apparently doesn’t matter which culture you come from, and it also starts young. I certainly remember being called “馬鹿” when...

Nobody likes being lied to.  When we find out that someone has been telling us lies, our egos take a hit. We feel stupid for believing the lies. Or we feel offended that this person couldn’t trust us with the truth. It’s not a good feeling, to say the...

Being a mom has been the most challenging, yet the most rewarding role I have ever taken on. Traditionally, the society sees the mother as the one raising her children. But as a mom, I’ve learned that it’s the total opposite. The children come into this world to raise...

Tomorrow being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect opportunity to take a look at the topic of parenting. We all have our own ideas about what is good parenting and bad parenting. As a parent myself, I really struggled to meet my own standards of good parenting, and I made...

When I started writing my last post about anger, I didn’t intend to chronicle my life with eczema. But for me, my anger and eczema are so intertwined that it felt natural to bring it up as a way to explain why embracing your anger is so important. The...

You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle.  When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice.  So, when...

Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone and thought to yourself, “I could throw those words right back in your face!”? Or maybe, when you were a child, did an adult scold you for something that they were just as guilty of doing? And now, be honest....

After years of self-analysis, I’ve come to the conclusion that a feeling of strong repulsion within me is a giant red flag. I know that someone or something is reflecting back to me a trait that I do not like about myself. And the explosive rage isn’t really aimed...