“Busy as a bee” we sometimes say. For me, this has always had a delightful connotation – a bumblebee buzzing around outside all day, doing important work, and coming home to make a sweet treat. Sounds like a great gig!
Unfortunately for many of us, these days there’s nothing delightful about the busyness in our lives.
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Recently a woman approached me and said, “You’re the reason that I use a different toilet stall every time I go to the washroom at work”. Ummm? Pardon me?
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Coddiwomple. My word of the year. And not just because it’s so fun to say. To coddiwomple is ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’.
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Imagine you are in a relationship with someone who is supportive, nurturing, beautiful, brilliant, and always gives you advice and guidance with your best interest at heart.
Now imagine that you typically ignore this person’s advice, don’t respond when they tell you what they need, talk badly about them (to their face and behind their back), push them beyond what they’re comfortable with and shame them if they can’t keep up.
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Have you ever found yourself in what I like to call ‘post-rehearsal’? Re-playing a conversation or event over and over in your head, thinking about all the things you coulda, shoulda, woulda said or done? Maybe feeling tense, anxious, angry, or in despair?
Well guess what? You’ve been triggered.
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