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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

By KVC West Virginia Staff — 2020

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

Read on westvirginia.kvc.org

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04 – Seek Discomfort with Thomas Brag from Yes Theory

Amy talks to Thomas Brag, one of the guys from Yes Theory (who got Will Smith to bungee jump out of a helicopter). Thomas shares how to seek discomfort, manage anxiety, and face your fears head-on.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2020
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47 - Friday Fix: Ask Yourself This Question and You'll Be Kinder to Yourself

Your inner dialogue can either inspire and motivate you to do your best or it can be the one thing that stands between you and living your best life. Studies consistently show self-compassion is the key to feeling and doing your best.

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The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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50 – How Being Kind Makes You Stronger with Kindness Expert Houston Kraft

Amy talks to kindness advocate, Houston Kraft. He's reached millions of people with his message that just might change the way you think about kindness.

Podcast
The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin
2021
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A bird was lying on his back in the road with his feet in the air. A horse saw him and asked, “What’re you doing?” The sparrow said, “I’m helping hold back the darkness.” The horse sneered and said, “Yeah, right,” and the sparrow said, “One does what one can.”

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Anne Lamott
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Dr. Maya Angelou: “Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” - Oprah’s Master Class - OWN

After hearing a 19th-century African-American song, Dr. Maya Angelou has never forgotten one important lyric: God put a rainbow in the clouds. Watch as Dr.

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Maya Angelou
2014
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

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James Doty
2017
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Happy Hour: Loving Care for This Body, with Nikki Mirghafori

Dharma talk from the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.

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Nikki Mirghafori
2020
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Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy

When we experience frustrations in daily life, many of us hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice disciplines of self-kindness.

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Cindy Bunch, Ruth Haley Barton (foreword)
2020
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