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 2019 Saturday, October 12th, 2019 Theme: Resilience: Resilience and Preparation for Adversity Stoic resilience is not about being an emotionless rock unaffected by the world around oneself. Unfortunate things will befall the Stoic, however they will not be overly emotionally reactive when these things occur. This is not a natural response. You are…
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Stoic Week 2019 Friday, October 11th, 2019 Theme: Emotions: Values and the Passions Our judgments of things harm us (and our relationships with others) more than the things themselves. We are more to blame than what is outside ourselves, however it is best to accept things as they are, attributing no blame to self or…
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Stoic Week 2019 Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 Theme: Virtue: Clarifying Your Values When we say virtue, we do not mean virginal or chaste or however its mostly interpreted today. Instead, virtue can be understood as the qualities a person possesses (and will express) that enable us to lead a happy life (you know, one according…
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Stoic Week 2019 Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 Theme: Happiness: The Goal of Life Alright, so I really wanted to stay with the format I had on day one of Stoic Week, but with a topic like “happiness” the morning, midday, and evening meditations and exercise all kind of blend together (in my head and in…
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Stoic Week 2019 Monday, October 7th, 2019 Theme: Progress Reflecting on this morning’s meditation: Every day provides us with the opportunity to make progress in virtue and movement toward happiness, freedom from passions, and serenity. So long as we make progress toward virtue, no matter how small, the day was worth it, and was not…
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Pages: 283 Ideal Reader: Everyone. Especially those bothered by negative emotions, searching for peace of mind, are bullied or insulted frequently, or who are looking for a guided way to live their life. Ideal Issues: Being insulted Depression Grief or Bereavement Anxiety Negative thinking Dealing with change and transitions in life Facing personal hardship Feeling…
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Life is filled with many choices. Some are relatively easy to make like what to where, your favorite color, or what you want to eat for dinner (okay, maybe that last one isn’t so easy). Some choices, those life changing choices, are more difficult. Choices like what you want to be when your grow up,…
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If you find yourself sitting across from me in the therapy room, there’s a very good chance you will hear me say, “You can curse all you want in here. The only ‘swear word’ here is ‘should.’” By now some of my clients might think I have a personal vendetta against the word. In truth,…
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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
