Pages: 127 Ideal Reader: Anyone looking to practice acceptance, build resilience, and have a peaceful mind, Students of Stoicism Ideal Issues: Facing Adversity Managing Negative Emotions Building Resilience Developing Self-Control Summary: This book takes an in-depth look at Stoicism’s concept of Amor Fati or loving one’s fate. The author explains that Amor Fati is to…
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Let’s start with addressing the elephant in the year; 2020 has been an epic mess for us all. It has been a challenge to each of our resilience and mental, emotional, and physical state. While we’ve all experienced the year differently and have different squares marked off on our 2020 Bingo card, we can all…
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Stoic Week 2020 Sunday, October 25th, 2020 Theme: Nature Stoics believed the universe exhibited qualities that provide humans with moral norms to live a good life. The qualities attributed to Nature were order, structure, rationality, and providential care. I don’t know if this is something I believe or not. To me, it feels too much…
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Stoic Week 2020 Saturday, October 24th, 2020 Theme: Resilience Today’s theme and midday exercise reflected on resiliency training. Stoics believed that we could practice our way into being more resilient. They accomplished this by repeatedly facing that which brings up passions, either head on or through negative visualization. It works in a way to inoculate…
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Stoic Week 2020 Friday, October 23rd, 2020 Theme: Emotions Stoics are not emotionless, contrary to popular belief. If they were, I’d be a horrible Stoic as I frequently experience Joy, delight, contentment, excitement, and wonder. Instead of being emotionless, Stoics distinguished between both good emotions and bad emotions or passions. Passions are misguided feelings that…
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Stoic Week 2020 Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 Theme: Community Today’s theme for Stoic Week, Stoicism during a Pandemic, was one that focused on a sort of meditative practice of our relationships to others. That being said, practice doesn’t translate to paper…er blogging quite as well as previous themes. However, here are some of the things…
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Stoic Week 2020 Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 Theme: Virtue I started my examination of Stoic Virtue by listing the qualities I thought were needed to live a good life. Afterwards, I compared them to the four cardinal Stoic Virtues of Wisdom, Courage, Justice, and Self-Control/Moderation. (See picture above for my lovely handwriting, and if you’re…
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Stoic Week 2020 Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 Theme: Happiness Stoic happiness, or eudaimonia, is understood as the overall goal or purpose of your life rather than a feeling. Eudaimonia is more stable because it is entirely dependent one what we can control rather than determined by outside force. It adds meaning to our lives and…
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Stoic Week 2020 Monday, October 19th, 2020 Theme: Progress This year’s focus during Stoic Week matches the themes of last year but expands it to how we can care for ourselves, others, and our wording during a pandemic. COVID-19 has had a lingering presence in my own life like much of yours. I am a…
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A month ago, none of us could have expected to be facing a global pandemic. As time goes on, the effects of increased anxiety, stay-home orders, loss, and financial instability creeps into our everyday lives. Unsurprisingly it’s also having an impact on intimate relationships. Coupling and long term relationships require work under the best of…
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Heather is an Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who unites systemic therapy with philosophical concepts. She has interests in Couples therapy, Consensual Non-Monogamy, Veteran Couples/Caregivers/Family, Philosophical Counseling, Sex therapy, and how to live a good life. Learn more about her here
