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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>#nature coaching <strong>#</strong>animal assisted therapy <strong>#</strong>self care <strong>#</strong>self-soothing <strong><strong><strong>#</strong></strong></strong>mindfulness <strong>#</strong>motivational prompts <strong>#</strong>acceptance <strong>#</strong>sense making <strong>#</strong>art therapy #growth mindset <strong><strong>#</strong></strong>philosophy &amp; wisdom</strong></p>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sea-card-deck-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2618" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:286px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sea-card-deck-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sea-card-deck-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sea-card-deck.jpg 1125w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">« These days, people use card decks for all kinds of reasons. Pulling cards is a way to summon synchronicity, a sacred process by which we experience the invisible connection between the inner and the outer worlds. <strong>It is also a practice that activates potential, planting the early radicles of possibility in the soil of the heart so that the roots can grow sturdy. Strong enough to sustain the slow growth of a fruit or a flower</strong>. » Jessica Dore, Tarot for Change, p.3</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">J&rsquo;ai découvert les « card&nbsp;decks » lors d&rsquo;une formation sur l&rsquo;équithérapie aux USA, où ils étaient présentés dans un chapitre sur les moyens de faire thérapie avec les animaux sans présence d&rsquo;animaux&nbsp;<em>vivants</em>. J&rsquo;avais choisi cette formation car réputée la plus scientifique, mon étonnement était donc grand mais les textes des cartes m&rsquo;avaient convaincus: j&rsquo;avais envie d&rsquo;essayer. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">J&rsquo;ai donc acheté le&nbsp;card&nbsp;deck&nbsp;« <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/1c0vveQ" target="_blank">Touched by a horse</a> » (des exemples ci-dessous) dans la suite, puis rapidement d&rsquo;autres&nbsp;card&nbsp;decks (il y a de plus en plus de <strong>cartes en français: cf. ci-dessous</strong>).&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La diversité de ces cartes surprend: alors qu&rsquo;ils existent depuis longtemps, on a l&rsquo;impression qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;un phénomène social qui s&rsquo;est amplifié dans une période post-covid en quête de spiritualité ou de lien avec la nature et les animaux, pour changer de regard sur une situation  et avancer ainsi que pour mettre en sens de ce qui nous arrive ? (cf. l&rsquo;article sur <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g35501893/best-oracle-card-decks/" target="_blank">OprahDaily</a>). Elles peuvent contenir des simple affirmations positives, des « slogans » bouddhistes, ou sont rédigés sous format « d&rsquo;oracle » moderne. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Elles peuvent s&rsquo;utiliser seul ou à deux ou plusieurs, comme les card decks « couple » ou conversation, pour approfondir nos relations et nous rapprocher.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=cards+school+of+life&amp;__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=249HT3C90AO5X&amp;sprefix=cards+school+of+life%2Caps%2C98&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2" target="_blank">school of life</a>, editeur de livres de philosophie appliquée, en a publié un grand nombre, dont celui sur « <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/hwnAUhv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kindness</a> » et « <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/h4dO69t" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stoicism</a>« , echantillons ci-dessous.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color">On peut utiliser les card decks de manière &lsquo;playful&rsquo; et non-ésoterique: pour des petits rappels réguliers, peu chronophages, qui nous aident à réfléchir en nous donnant une autre perspective, une autre vision des choses, dans une période en manque de sens et de repères (et de playfulness).</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Donc les&nbsp;card&nbsp;decks&nbsp;peuvent nous servir&nbsp;<strong>comme outils de réflexion sur soi, de self-care, de régulation émotionnelle, </strong>etc. Certains les utilisent pour faire du<strong> journaling, etc., à des fins méditatives. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>En somme, un outil pour nourrir un espace de dialogue positif avec soi-même, entre les séances et au-delà. Elles se prêtent à un usage régulier, quotidien ou presque et ludique (par ex. 1 carte par jour). L&rsquo;aspect immersif semble être important: choisissez une « prose » et un design/une esthétique qui vous parlent.&nbsp;</strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Diversité thématique</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Voici quelques exemples de&nbsp;card&nbsp;decks, si cette pratique peut vous intéresser (j&rsquo;ai volontairement mis un grand nombre, même si je ne les connais pas tous, pour vous montrer la diversité:<strong> à vous de choisir celui qui fera sens pour vous.</strong></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">&#8211; Nature et animaux </h3>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/2ulUuRk" target="_blank">Nature Meditations</a> (exemple ci-dessous ou sur internet)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>« Touched by a horse »&nbsp;</strong>Melisa Pearce : exemple en bas de page</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Woodland-Wardens-52-Card-Oracle-Guidebook/dp/1524871346" target="_blank"><strong>Woodland Wardens</strong>&nbsp;</a>(<em>victorian design</em>, jolies cartes) Jessica Roux, exemple ci-après</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/74FVvCx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sacred Forest</a> </strong>par&nbsp;Denise Linn, <strong>Spirit Animal </strong>(ex. en bas de page, <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/9FZxVWg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fr</a>), <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/9rmefSh" target="_blank">Oracle of the Sacred Horse </a>(Kathy Pike)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/5v2rYgx" target="_blank">Medicine Cards</a></strong> (Jamie Sams), en <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/bZJ8cyq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">français</a></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">&#8211; Philosophie, religions du monde</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">« <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/1QK5shO" target="_blank">Stoicism</a></strong>&nbsp;card&nbsp;deck » (dont un de School of Life), « <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/7Q1kYBP" target="_blank">Greek mythology</a>&nbsp;</strong>reading&nbsp;card&nbsp;deck » et <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/7Jb8vdu" target="_blank">The Classical Mythology Oracle</a> (2024), &lsquo;The&nbsp;<strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/cG4Euqv" target="_blank">Yogic Path</a>&nbsp;</strong>card&nbsp;deck »,&nbsp;<strong>Buddhism / meditation</strong> : « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/1611807727/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1" target="_blank">Everyday Peace&nbsp;Cards: 108 Mindfulness Meditations</a>&nbsp;(Hanh, Thich Nhat),&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/69GQrS2" target="_blank">Bhagavad Gita</a> Card deck,&nbsp;etc.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pema Chodron&rsquo;s&nbsp;« <strong>Compassion&nbsp;cards</strong>« : some&nbsp;cards&nbsp;are not trauma informed, please make your own selection or add your own affirmative phrases on them, maybe based on the book&nbsp;<em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Fierce-Self-Compassion-Harness-Kindness-English-ebook/dp/B08F7S3G4C/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=4DOTBOFN4FWC&amp;keywords=fierce+self+compassion&amp;qid=1669115988&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjM3IiwicXNhIjoiMi4zNSIsInFzcCI6IjIuMjUifQ%3D%3D&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=fierce+self+compassion%2Cdigital-text%2C98&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">Fierce self-compassion</a>&nbsp;</em>by Dr.Kristin Neff</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Card decks axés &lsquo;<strong>approches thérapeutiques</strong>&lsquo;</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Act-Daily-Card-Deck-Acceptance/dp/164848123X/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=PZMS76I6XSEL&amp;keywords=ACT+card+deck&amp;qid=1675194605&amp;sprefix=act+card+deck%2Caps%2C205&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">ACT daily&nbsp;card&nbsp;deck</a>&nbsp;</strong>(ACT= Acceptance and commitment therapy), Sorenson &amp; Hill, 2023, <strong>exemples en fin de page</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Live-Your-Values-Deck-Practice/dp/1797206125/ref=sr_1_8?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=PZMS76I6XSEL&amp;keywords=ACT+card+deck&amp;qid=1675194605&amp;sprefix=act+card+deck%2Caps%2C205&amp;sr=8-8" target="_blank">The live your values&nbsp;card&nbsp;deck</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Cbt-Deck-Practices-Improve-Thoughts/dp/1683732464/ref=sr_1_7?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=PZMS76I6XSEL&amp;keywords=ACT+card+deck&amp;qid=1675194605&amp;sprefix=act+card+deck%2Caps%2C205&amp;sr=8-7" target="_blank">The CBT&nbsp;deck</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(CBT = TCC)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/e1ctLqX" target="_blank">Trauma-Informed Yoga Affirmation Card Deck</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/3IGxXLi" target="_blank">Awakening Self-Compassion Cards</a>,  <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.calameo.com/read/000039257eb1246572a6c" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.calameo.com/read/000039257eb1246572a6c" target="_blank">extrait ici</a>, exemple en fin de page</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/2XXeKXf" target="_blank">Polyvagal Card Deck</a> (Deb Dana)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Emotional-Support-Animal-Cards-Affirmations/dp/1642501867/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=PZMS76I6XSEL&amp;keywords=ACT+card+deck&amp;qid=1675194605&amp;sprefix=act+card+deck%2Caps%2C205&amp;sr=8-5" target="_blank">Thera-Pets</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/5t9uphF" target="_blank">The Set Boundaries Deck</a>: A Tool for Expressing Healthy Limits for Happier Relationships (Nedra Glover Tawwab)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://a.co/d/eLQHRwT" target="_blank">Post-Traumatic Growth Deck</a> (Dr. Arielle Schwartz) <a href="https://resilienceinformedtherapy.com/product/the-post-traumatic-growth-deck/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">description sur le site de l&rsquo;auteure</a> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa3O91rIGNk" target="_blank">présentation vidéo</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Livre sans cartes:</span> « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/hlpHwpu" target="_blank">Tarot for change</a>: self-care, acceptance, growth » <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.coffeebookandcandle.com/post/tarot-for-change-book-review" target="_blank">review</a> ici. Pour ceux qui ont déjà des cartes de Tarot. Par l&rsquo;auteur: « The cards can foster self-trust, introspection and an interior grounding that can offset the tendency to look only outwards for answers ».</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Card&nbsp;decks<strong>&nbsp;en français</strong> </h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Très bons card decks:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/fe3SeVQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Les cartes Médécine </strong></a>(bestseller de Jamie Sams) </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Voie-du-Yoga-Sahara-Rose/dp/2702920659/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=T2EGFI8XQSGR&amp;keywords=the+yogic+path&amp;qid=1675195738&amp;sprefix=the+yogic+path%2Caps%2C135&amp;sr=8-4" target="_blank">La voie du Yog</a><strong>a</strong></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>L<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/LOracle-lEsprit-animal-Colette-Baron-reid/dp/236188366X/ref=sr_1_35?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=3TAV9D22FMVRM&amp;keywords=les+cartes+medicine&amp;qid=1669119655&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjI1IiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&amp;sprefix=les+cartes+medincine%2Caps%2C169&amp;sr=8-35" target="_blank">&lsquo;Oracle de l&rsquo;Esprit anima</a>l </strong>(cf. ex. en anglais ci-dessous)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bons retours des clients sur amazon pour:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/2qJAKhe" target="_blank">La Citadelle</a> de Fez Inkwright</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/2361882876/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2" target="_blank">Lumières</a> de Rebecca Campbell (vendu à la Fnac Ternes)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A la Fnac Ternes (Paris): un rayon entier consacré à la « cartomancie »</strong> (coté « psycho / bien-être »), avec les cartes d&rsquo;Isabelle Cerf, dont <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/097QlHOk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mission de vie</a>, bestseller semble-t-il mais je ne connais pas son travail. Faut pas être rebuté par le language « chakra &amp; cie » par contre. Les card deck à la Fnac sont bien sûr sous cellophane, mais demandez au staff de les ouvrir pour pouvoir feuilleter les cartes.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour en trouver d&rsquo;autres, vous pouvez mettre les noms par exemple des auteurs des&nbsp;cards&nbsp;decks&nbsp;ici dans&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://amazon.fr/" target="_blank">amazon.fr</a>&nbsp;etc   </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">=&gt; Les traductions sont forcément plus chères, mais beaucoup de ces&nbsp;card&nbsp;decks&nbsp;se trouvent&nbsp;<strong>d&rsquo;occasion sur Rakuten ou Momox, ou d&rsquo;autres sites de livres d&rsquo;occasion</strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">A deux | cartes pour approfondir ses relations</h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Conversation &amp; Date night card decks</h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Intelligent-Change-Lets-Closer-Relationships/dp/B09L3JTK85/ref=sr_1_6?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uusSJTv-zl2C326dN0gTREyA45LHrOktu46jfW8uhx1Dc9p08Tfzw4M_6k6IvcL4lwy9G6ddAAWlUYLtOOmESH6A-q4_648Ng_au_kfAoWI0n3bqMlWKIHeNk2dQDH2HOzFz5iaG5OYMYMnn_BvmJHBTjSA2JbthwSs5YSwNuT2VOSDYFwbPhjoOSlE7Demud1-ncRcytuLw2HxsRQELevMQJx-hbOIhW8huDGWpA-QUaucEUfG1WeV5VXKhmahEcIAg6fmb78DOIuhzSFj2c01PIpb244AFx6Yui62pUKc.jr4clDA3yHGOMdP9Y99gI97wC17CrodfpavUs5voQOc&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Intelligent%2BChange&amp;qid=1716302528&amp;sr=8-6&amp;th=1" target="_blank">Table talk &#8211; Let&rsquo;s get closer</a> Intelligent change (Dinner), exemples ci-dessous</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/8Cgreaq" target="_blank">The Meaning of Life Cards: Cards for Profound and Playful Chat</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Je connais les deux ci-dessus qui sont très bien, il y a de nombreux autres:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/table-talk-placecards/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Table Talk Placecard</a>s Sociability <em>40 placecards with 80 questions for sparking meaningful and revealing conversations around the table</em> </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.intelligentchange.com/products/get-closer-couples-edition" target="_blank">Intelligent Change Get Closer Conversation Game: Couple</a>s =&gt; 3 catégories de cartes, faites le tri des quelques cartes qui ne sont pas intéressantes, globalement c&rsquo;est un bon card deck</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour les germanophones: la maison d&rsquo;édition BELZ a également beaucoup de card decks vendu via son site</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Couple | Cartes sur le thème du couple </strong></h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-full is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="650" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.30.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3050" style="aspect-ratio:1.2;width:288px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.30.png 780w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.30-300x250.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.30-768x640.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" /></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">J&rsquo;en connais aucun de ceux-ci, faites une recherche:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/c5Kcdp2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Connect: Remember Why You Matter to One Another</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://game.estherperel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Esther Perel&nbsp;</a>Card&nbsp;deck</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.couplestherapyinc.com/relationship-games-for-couples/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gottman&nbsp;Card&nbsp;deck</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07YFVZY4J/ref=sspa_dk_detail_4?psc=1&amp;pd_rd_i=B07YFVZY4J&amp;pd_rd_w=YkAWq&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.a65583b8-36db-4b44-b29e-88a5ed95007c&amp;pf_rd_p=a65583b8-36db-4b44-b29e-88a5ed95007c&amp;pf_rd_r=A8QE1K3GWNTWSCM3HC6N&amp;pd_rd_wg=W7XKK&amp;pd_rd_r=1f458d1b-0b0b-4bdd-8a0a-ea7592795f5c&amp;s=toys&amp;sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Connect</a> (School of life)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/BestSelf-débutants-renforcer-romantisme-confiance/dp/B07W1PVNFC/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=3BHJHAK0OUJ9C&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MGEFTM61ABMbWQA7CInkE1n7Mdyt4g7mJgR1RHTIACriWZio42phsqjWohpiplSdnui_NIFDrOu1scB2rY9GuwD4O-giGIX-3bUvLZUmIdH_K96YWssUFINsXDi0LEOEH8YjS0cptjXGS1jqaJHStrR508X2WuOv2pgx9Z3ctKi_AJ7RzRlSoUMg1FBxPpZmD4axJRlZTf1RaOTKKNwIzZa-dALKTU_G3ij4Z0IlFuSZUX_2NHqqDW_fxtzeu4SC7ZXwF-hzt_-VsPJS7SPMfE7oA8sXBopML3w51pHoQBE.g47wOsJhTt9eBDXkjgGxZtNzZQzG-fjNWk7vEt3soB0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=intimacy%2Bcard&amp;qid=1716312185&amp;sprefix=intimacy%2Bcard%2Caps%2C203&amp;sr=8-1&amp;th=1" target="_blank">Intimacy&nbsp;deck&nbsp;</a>(Best Self)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Intimité-romantique-questions-actions-passionnantes/dp/B083KHKZY8/ref=sr_1_6?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=3BHJHAK0OUJ9C&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MGEFTM61ABMbWQA7CInkE1n7Mdyt4g7mJgR1RHTIACriWZio42phsqjWohpiplSdnui_NIFDrOu1scB2rY9GuwD4O-giGIX-3bUvLZUmIdH_K96YWssUFINsXDi0LEOEH8YjS0cptjXGS1jqaJHStrR508X2WuOv2pgx9Z3ctKi_AJ7RzRlSoUMg1FBxPpZmD4axJRlZTf1RaOTKKNwIzZa-dALKTU_G3ij4Z0IlFuSZUX_2NHqqDW_fxtzeu4SC7ZXwF-hzt_-VsPJS7SPMfE7oA8sXBopML3w51pHoQBE.g47wOsJhTt9eBDXkjgGxZtNzZQzG-fjNWk7vEt3soB0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=intimacy+card&amp;qid=1716312185&amp;sprefix=intimacy+card%2Caps%2C203&amp;sr=8-6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Intimacy</a> (2)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Jeux-pour-Couples-Cartes-Question/dp/B08948WMF9/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=3BHJHAK0OUJ9C&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MGEFTM61ABMbWQA7CInkE1n7Mdyt4g7mJgR1RHTIACriWZio42phsqjWohpiplSdnui_NIFDrOu1scB2rY9GuwD4O-giGIX-3bUvLZUmIdH_K96YWssUFINsXDi0LEOEH8YjS0cptjXGS1jqaJHStrR508X2WuOv2pgx9Z3ctKi_AJ7RzRlSoUMg1FBxPpZmD4axJRlZTf1RaOTKKNwIzZa-dALKTU_G3ij4Z0IlFuSZUX_2NHqqDW_fxtzeu4SC7ZXwF-hzt_-VsPJS7SPMfE7oA8sXBopML3w51pHoQBE.g47wOsJhTt9eBDXkjgGxZtNzZQzG-fjNWk7vEt3soB0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=intimacy%2Bcard&amp;qid=1716312185&amp;sprefix=intimacy%2Bcard%2Caps%2C203&amp;sr=8-5&amp;th=1" target="_blank">Better together</a></p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Exemples de cartes</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="933" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/get-closer-table-talk-1024x933.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2675" style="aspect-ratio:1.097534833869239" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/get-closer-table-talk-1024x933.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/get-closer-table-talk-300x273.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/get-closer-table-talk-768x700.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/get-closer-table-talk.png 1324w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Let&rsquo;s get closer -Table Talk</figcaption></figure>



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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/stoicism-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-2651" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:607px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/stoicism-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/stoicism-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/stoicism-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/stoicism.jpeg 1512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Stoicism (School of Life)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kindness-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-2649" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:578px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kindness-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kindness-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kindness-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/kindness.jpeg 1512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Kindness card deck (School of Life)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2643" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:822px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Vulture-J-ROUX-Woodland-Wardens-card-deck-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Woodland Wardes (Jessica Roux)</figcaption></figure>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Way of the horse (Linda Kohanov) ci-dessous:</p>



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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2687" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:587px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PERSPECTIVE-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Touched by a horse (Melisa Pearce)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2637" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:552px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DETERMINATION-touched-by-a-horse-card-deck-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Touched by a horse (Melisa Pearce)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2638" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:883px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-1-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Spirit Animal</figcaption></figure>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2692" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amadillo-spirit-boundaries-2-SPIRIT-ANIMAL-colette-baron-reid.jpg-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Spirit Animal: Armadillo « Set healthy boundaries »</p>



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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="546" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-1024x546.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2718" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-300x160.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-768x410.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-1536x819.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/awakening-self-compassion-card-deck-2048x1092.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Awakening Self-Compassion Cards (Ann Saffi Biasetti)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2717" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">ACT Daily Card Deck (Diana Hill, Debbie Sorensen)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="490" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-1024x490.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2716" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-300x144.jpg 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-768x368.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-1536x735.jpg 1536w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Act-card-deck-2-2048x980.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">ACT Daily Card Deck (Diana Hill, Debbie Sorensen)</figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nature meditations:</p>



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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="465" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.00-1024x465.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3053" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.00-1024x465.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.00-300x136.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.00-768x349.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-28-at-10.16.00.png 1370w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Connect card deck</figcaption></figure>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Le bénévolat est un vaste champ qui permet à chacun d’<strong>exprimer ses valeurs et de soutenir une cause d’intérêt général</strong>. </p>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Réfléchissez sur ce qui vous anime</strong>&nbsp;et que vous souhaitez partager, cela vous aidera à choisir des projets ou associations: développement durable, écologie, animaux, actions sociales, personnes vulnérables &#8230;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/20280/1/dp1045.pdf" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/20280/1/dp1045.pdf" target="_blank">recherche</a> le montre: « it is not people who pursue their own happiness who are happy but people who care for others (&#8230;) Helping others increases people’s individual well-being. (&#8230;) volunteering is rewarding for the volunteers in terms of higher life satisfaction. » Given that, why do not more people volunteer?  » People underestimate the benefits from intrinsic tasks like volunteering while they overestimate the value of e.g. additional income from overtime work » (<em>Is volunteering rewarding in itself? </em>Meier, Stutzer, 2004) . On the <a href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/healing-trauma-with-horses/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/healing-trauma-with-horses/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">link between caregiving, resilience and healing from trauma</a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Général | environnement | personnes vulnérables</h2>



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<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://make.org/" target="_blank">make.org</a> « passe à l’action sur les grands sujets de société »</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://france.makesense.org/" target="_blank">makesense</a>&nbsp;(lien vers le site français, il y a des sites pour d&rsquo;autres pays aussi)
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<li>&nbsp;atelier « l<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://france.makesense.org/citoyens/s-engager/la-breche/" target="_blank">a brèche</a>« : projets pour « brecher » sa vie</li>



<li>&nbsp;volunteering /<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jobs.makesense.org/?utm_campaign=makesense-france-top-nav&amp;utm_source=makesense-france" target="_blank">benevolat</a>&nbsp;etc&nbsp;</li>



<li>p<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://france.makesense.org/citoyens/soutenir-des-projets/" target="_blank">rojets / entrepreneuria</a>t</li>
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<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://pachagaia.fr/qui-sommes-nous" data-type="URL" data-id="https://pachagaia.fr/qui-sommes-nous" target="_blank">PachaGaia</a> « s’est fixé pour objectifs principaux de diffuser les concepts de <strong>préjudice écologique et d’injustice environnementale</strong>, et d’y sensibiliser le grand public par le biais de la cartographie interactive »</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.workaway.info/en/hosttype/ngo" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.workaway.info/en/hosttype/ngo" target="_blank">Work Away : NGO </a> voyager et travailler pour soutenir les associations dans le monde entier</li>



<li>servethecity.paris « migrants »</li>



<li>Trouver une mission de bénévolat: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.benevolt.fr" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.benevolt.fr" target="_blank">Benevolt</a></li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jemengage.paris.fr/" target="_blank">je m&rsquo;engage paris</a></li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.poureuxlemouv.com/" target="_blank">« Pour eux</a> » plats pour SDF</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.benenova.fr/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.benenova.fr/" target="_blank">Benenova</a> bénévolat&nbsp;avec des&nbsp;associations près de chez vous, selon vos disponibilités</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.kelbongoo.com/boutiques" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.kelbongoo.com/boutiques" target="_blank">Kelbongo</a><a href="https://www.kelbongoo.com/boutiques" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.kelbongoo.com/boutiques" target="_blank" rel="noopener">o</a> propose des « <strong>produits frais et locaux à des prix accessibles, dans les quartiers mixtes et populaires</strong>,<strong> tout en soutenant des petits producteurs locaux aux pratiques respectueuses de l’environnement et des bêtes</strong> » (économie sociale et solidaire)</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Animaux</strong>&nbsp;</h2>


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<li><strong>Où</strong>? Toutes les SPA , refuges pour animaux etc. locaux près de chez vous</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fonds-saint-bernard.com/annuaires-utiles/asso-protection-animale/itemlist/filter?searchword8=ILE+DE+FRANCE&amp;moduleId=189&amp;Itemid=176&amp;5054ef85e11775336a3f86e92fe76e2b=1" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.fonds-saint-bernard.com/annuaires-utiles/asso-protection-animale/itemlist/filter?searchword8=ILE+DE+FRANCE&amp;moduleId=189&amp;Itemid=176&amp;5054ef85e11775336a3f86e92fe76e2b=1" target="_blank"><strong>Annuaire</strong></a> Sociétés de Protection animale</li>



<li>Pour mes patients, les refuges pour animaux sont souvent associés à la souffrance, l&rsquo;abandon,  la solitude.. qui sont des « triggers » pour eux (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/schematherapie-modes-strategies-de-coping/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/schematherapie-modes-strategies-de-coping/" target="_blank">schéma « abandon »</a> etc.) &#8211; donc on évite! Sachez que la meilleure façon de se débarasser de ses démons, c&rsquo;est de les affronter et d&rsquo;agir en fonction de ses valeurs&#8230;et souvent ce que l&rsquo;on imagine est bien pire que la réalité: allez à la rencontre de ces personnes, visitez les lieux, vous verrez&#8230; </li>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Adopter ou acheter?</mark></strong></p>



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<li>De même ceux qui sont prêts à accueillir un animal &#8211; mais surtout pas un « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://chiencitoyen.com/2019/06/30/les-grigris-de-paris-batards-et-corniauds/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://chiencitoyen.com/2019/06/30/les-grigris-de-paris-batards-et-corniauds/" target="_blank">batard</a> » d&rsquo;un refuge! Que vont penser les gens &#8230; Si j&rsquo;ai le schema « recherche d&rsquo;approbation et de reconnaissance », pas de place pour un batard dans ma vie parfaitement présentable : on prend la dernière race à la mode, actuellement le berger australien, le beagle, pire: les races de chien « flat nose », comme le bulldogue français etc., élevages cruels créant des<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.vetwest.com.au/pet-library/brachycephalic-obstructive-airway-syndrome-–-flat-nose-dogs" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.vetwest.com.au/pet-library/brachycephalic-obstructive-airway-syndrome-–-flat-nose-dogs" target="_blank"> troubles respiratoires</a>&#8230;et d&rsquo;autres <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/96376789/Dont-Shop-ADOPT" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.behance.net/gallery/96376789/Dont-Shop-ADOPT" target="_blank">problèmes génétiques</a></li>



<li>Réussir une adoption d&rsquo;un refuge: c&rsquo;est davantage une question de match de personnalités que d&rsquo;animal trop « difficile/traumatisé » ou pas, comme le prouve la <a href="https://faunalytics.org/we-may-be-making-dog-adoptions-too-complicated/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://faunalytics.org/we-may-be-making-dog-adoptions-too-complicated/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recherche</a>. La preuve en video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJmDusfbeg" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJmDusfbeg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rescue diaries</a> [Youtube]&#8230;<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Journal-dune-adoption-poil-presque/dp/2956961608/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=3HTD9IQJRXK7P&amp;keywords=education+chien&amp;qid=1646553148&amp;sprefix=education+chien%2Caps%2C113&amp;sr=8-4" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/Journal-dune-adoption-poil-presque/dp/2956961608/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=3HTD9IQJRXK7P&amp;keywords=education+chien&amp;qid=1646553148&amp;sprefix=education+chien%2Caps%2C113&amp;sr=8-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Journal d&rsquo;adoption</a> [livre] | <a href="https://www.homeoanimo.com/blogs/sante-animale/le-guide-de-la-parfaite-adoption-animal?msID=ff4aa4b2-4b22-49e9-9871-a6451453e689" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.homeoanimo.com/blogs/sante-animale/le-guide-de-la-parfaite-adoption-animal?msID=ff4aa4b2-4b22-49e9-9871-a6451453e689" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Guide de l&rsquo;adoption animale</a> initiative d&rsquo;un site commercial qui m&rsquo;a contacté pour être inclus, je n&rsquo;ai pas tout lu, mais j&rsquo;ai quand même voulu soutenir l&rsquo;effort. Je vous laisse voir </li>



<li>[Livre] <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/iWWbOBJ" target="_blank"><strong>Train to Adopt</strong>: Humane Guidelines and a Training Program for Dogs in Shelters</a>: « This step-by-step guide provide positive, healthy stimulation for dogs in the shelter setting while they learned basic manners and behavior control, such as doorway manners, appropriate food bowl behaviors, meeting and greeting and many other training exercises. Shelter dogs who have received some training are often viewed by the public as ‘special’, rather than victims of abuse and neglect. »</li>



<li>[Livre] Vous trouverez un grand nombre de <strong>livres sur l&rsquo;entraînement de chiens</strong> et le <strong>changement de comportements difficiles</strong> en anglais sur <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.dogwise.com/dog-books-print/" target="_blank">dogwise.com</a>, ou en français sur Amazon.fr</li>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Bénévolat</mark></strong></h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A côté du travail en lien avec les animaux, il faut des personnes pour des tâches plus administratives aussi, ou alors en contact avec les personnes adoptant des animaux (à leur domicile).</p>



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<li><a href="https://antiloened.wixsite.com/an-ti-loened" data-type="link" data-id="https://antiloened.wixsite.com/an-ti-loened" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">La maison des animaux</a> : <strong><a href="https://antiloened.wixsite.com/an-ti-loened/comment-nous-aider" data-type="link" data-id="https://antiloened.wixsite.com/an-ti-loened/comment-nous-aider" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Devenir « famille » d&rsquo;accueil pour un animal</a></strong>, le temps de trouver une famille définitive</li>



<li><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.la-spa.fr/agir-avec-la-spa/rejoindre-la-spa/devenir-benevole/" target="_blank">Devenir bénévole à la SPA</a></strong>  <strong><a href="https://solicanin.jimdofree.com/nous-aider/devenir-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9vole/" data-type="link" data-id="https://solicanin.jimdofree.com/nous-aider/devenir-b%C3%A9n%C3%A9vole/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bénévolat a Solicanin Argenteuil</a></strong></li>



<li>Améliorer les chances d&rsquo;adoption des chiens: cf. liste de livres « <a href="https://www.thesprucepets.com/best-dog-training-books-4164678" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The 7 best dog training books of 2021</a> » ou ressources similaires en <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=eduquer+son+chien&amp;s=review-rank&amp;__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=18MZVG5PT3YT3&amp;qid=1646553281&amp;sprefix=eduquer+son+chien%2Caps%2C114&amp;ref=sr_st_review-rank" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=eduquer+son+chien&amp;s=review-rank&amp;__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&amp;crid=18MZVG5PT3YT3&amp;qid=1646553281&amp;sprefix=eduquer+son+chien%2Caps%2C114&amp;ref=sr_st_review-rank" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">français</a>&nbsp;(ou la langue de votre préférence) </li>



<li><strong><a href="https://one-voice.fr/fr/one-voice/la-vision.html" data-type="URL" data-id="https://one-voice.fr/fr/one-voice/la-vision.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">One voice</a></strong>. Vision:  » Parce qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;y a pas des combats mais un seul combat contre la violence, One Voice agit pour la faire reculer partout où elle se développe et quelle qu&rsquo;en soit la victime. Elle défend une éthique animale et planétaire. » <strong><a href="https://one-voice.fr/fr/votre-action/militer.html" data-type="URL" data-id="https://one-voice.fr/fr/votre-action/militer.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Devenir militant pour One Voice</a></strong></li>



<li><strong>LPO</strong> (BirdLife) Protection de la <strong>biodiversité</strong> (oiseaux et au delà). <a href="https://www.lpo.fr/s-engager-a-nos-cotes/devenir-benevole" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Benevolat</a>, <a href="https://www.lpo.fr/decouvrir-la-nature/loisirs-nature/agenda-nature?Structure%20LPO=LPO%20Île-de-France&amp;Type%20d%27activités=Sortie%20nature&amp;Mois=Août" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Agenda sorties nature </a>(actualisez le filtre), <a href="https://www.lpo.fr/lpo-locales/lpo-ile-de-france/actions-des-benevoles/groupes-locaux-et-thematiques" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Groupes locaux IdF</a>, <a href="https://www.lpo.fr/la-lpo-en-actions/agir-pour-la-faune-en-detresse/centres-de-soins" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Centres de soin</a></li>



<li><strong>Pour les oiseaux</strong><ul><li>des mangeoires sur le balcon / devant vos fenêtres pour les oiseaux (« <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Kingfisher-Mangeoire-graisse-oiseaux-anti-%C3%A9cureuils/dp/B002R6VQAI/ref=pd_sbs_1?pd_rd_w=EMvMF&amp;pf_rd_p=552e14c5-0d8e-4f46-8f14-d420c347861e&amp;pf_rd_r=515TN5TVZ0B3KGY590BZ&amp;pd_rd_r=33212717-494b-416a-af39-81e128b0cd8f&amp;pd_rd_wg=IQZ1x&amp;pd_rd_i=B002R6VQAI&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mangeoires à cage de protectio</a>n » pour éviter&nbsp;que les pigeons monopolisent le mangeoire, sur&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Windhager-06514-Protection-pr%C3%A9dateurs-Anthracite/dp/B08FMQR8RB/ref=psdc_2036527031_t3_B00NC0WH4M" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">amazon</a>&nbsp;etc.) <strong>édit 2026</strong>: je n&rsquo;ai trouvé aucune mangeoire qui protège réellement des pigeons, je me suis construite une moi même avec une grande saladière transparente et du grillage à lapin au dessus. Sinon il faut renforcer avec du fil de fer les mangeoires à cage qu&rsquo;on trouve dans le commerce. Il est interdit de nourrir les pigeons à Paris et cela crée des problèmes avec les voisins, pas de choix donc</li></ul>
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<li>Il est désormais prouvé scientifiquement: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://naturecanada.ca/discover-nature/lifestyle/watching-birds-near-your-home-is-good-for-your-mental-health/" target="_blank">Watching birds near your home is good for your mental health</a></li>



<li>Pour les nichoirs: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.wildcare.eu/nichoirs/nichoirs-oiseaux.html" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.wildcare.eu/nichoirs/nichoirs-oiseaux.html" target="_blank">Wildcare</a> ou Vivara&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>Garde d&rsquo;animaux</strong>
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<li>A Cuy-Saint-Fiacre (Seine-Maritime), <a href="https://www.k6-pension.com/transport" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">navette</a> à partir de Neuilly-s-S.: <a href="https://www.k6-pension.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">K6 pension canine et féline</a>, présidé par le Dr vet Thierry Bedossa</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.empruntemontoutou.com/" target="_blank">Emprunte mon toutou</a>&nbsp;Garde gratuite de chien</li>



<li><a href="https://www.animal-fute.com/accueil-new.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Animal futé</a>&nbsp; <em>1er site d&rsquo;ECHANGE de garde d&rsquo;animaux (chien, chat, NAC) entre particuliers</em></li>



<li><a href="http://pabete.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pabete.com</a> &nbsp;<em>La plateforme solidaire de garde d’animaux Pabete.com a pour objectif de démocratiser les services de garde et les rendre accessibles à toutes les personnes ayant des difficultés financières, tout en offrant un environnement sécurisé et bienveillant aux animaux accueillis.</em></li>



<li><a href="https://www.rover.com/fr/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.rover.com/fr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rover</a> Différents types de services (promenades, garde à domicile, hébérgement, etc. par des particuliers) | payant</li>
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<li class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Divers</strong></li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.wildcare.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.wildcare.eu/</a>&nbsp; « Fournisseur Européen pour l&rsquo;écologie » Gites à insectes, nichoirs pour mammifères et oiseaux, etc.</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.actionprotectionanimale.com/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.actionprotectionanimale.com/" target="_blank">Action Protection Animale</a>  est née du constat que malgré l’intérêt de l’opinion publique portée à la cause animale, la maltraitance est en constante augmentation à un point tel que les associations peinent à endiguer ce phénomène </li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://faunalytics.org/about/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://faunalytics.org/about/" target="_blank">Faunalytics</a>&lsquo; mission is to empower animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering [<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://faunalytics.org/volunteer/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://faunalytics.org/volunteer/" target="_blank">volunteering</a>]</li>



<li><a href="https://www.solidarite-peuple-animal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Solidarité Peuple Animal </a>(basé en IdF) soutien aux refuges</li>



<li><a href="https://3677.fr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SOS Maltraitance Animale</a> &#8211; 3677 &#8211; numéro pour signaler des abus, <a href="https://3677.fr/nous-soutenir/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">soutien: actions de comm, dons et bénévolat (enquête)</a>
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<li>Fondé par Loic Dombreval / Conseil National de la Protection Animale (<a href="https://www.cnpa-asso.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CNPA</a>)</li>
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</li>



<li><a href="https://youcare.world/en#stories" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Youcare</a>.world <a href="https://www.youcare.world/links?utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnXFNfunqbQ4M6lsz8U7y84bI9jZR0K2zxs9gH3U0KqemfUrTJ5OPvQ39u3HI_aem_F3Kqb3JLRs5ZOtgW8FzkBA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">liens</a>, basé à Levallois (IdF) aide aux animaux, reforestation etc.</li>



<li><a href="https://www.aspas-nature.org/agir-ensemble/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Association pour la protection des animaux sauvages</a> (ASPAS)</li>



<li><a href="https://brigadeanimalebenevole.fr/actualite/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">La Brigade Animale Bénévole</a> &#8211; animaux maltraités: adoptions, familles d&rsquo;accueil, dons etc. <a href="https://brigadeanimalebenevole.fr/devenir-benevole/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">bénévoles</a> </li>



<li><a href="https://www.l214.com/agir/nous-soutenir/?_gl=1*1bsuhhx*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTUxODc3NzY5My4xNzg0MDEzMzcx*_ga_WJSDK2ZXS9*czE3ODQwMTMzNzEkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODQwMTMzNzEkajYwJGwwJGgw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">La L124 &#8211; Éthique &amp; Animaux</a> est tournée vers les animaux utilisés dans la production alimentaire et révélant leurs conditions d&rsquo;élevage, de transport, de pêche et d&rsquo;abattage.</li>



<li><a href="https://www.fondation-droit-animal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">La Fondation Droit Animal, Ethique et Sciences</a> (LFDA) a pour but de faire évoluer les textes réglementaires et de loi en faveur des animaux à l’aide d’arguments scientifiques et éthiques. Connue jusqu’en 2010 sous le nom&nbsp;<em>Ligue française des droits de l’animal</em></li>



<li>International : <a href="https://globalprotagonists.com/pages/our-missions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Global Protagonists</a>:  participation frontline et co-financements de projets de protection de la faune sauvage partout dans le monde <a href="https://www.instagram.com/globalprotagonists/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Insta</a></li>



<li><strong>La façon la moins chronophage de faire une contribution: faire un don</strong>. Voici les associations à qui je donne régulièrement
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<li>ASVE <a href="https://www.asve.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seconde Vie pour les Equidés</a> à Arnouville, accessible en RER (Mante-la-Jolie) plus bus</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.equiwent.org/finanz-spenden" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.equiwent.org/finanz-spenden" target="_blank">Equiwent</a> Association allemande de plus en plus médiatisée et très active en Roumanie, donne des attestations aussi</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.princefluffykareem.co.uk/donate" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.princefluffykareem.co.uk/donate" target="_blank">Prince Fluffy Kareem </a>vous trouverez une page facebook et des infos ailleurs sur le web. Très active en Egypte pour aider les équidés</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://soutenir.la-spa.fr/b/mon-don?_cv=1" data-type="URL" data-id="https://soutenir.la-spa.fr/b/mon-don?_cv=1" target="_blank">A la SPA</a> faire un don est très simple, secure et rapide et on reçoit une attestation pour pouvoir déduire le montant aux impôts</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Autres</strong></h2>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="322" height="430" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.34.03.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1938" style="aspect-ratio:0.75;width:211px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.34.03.png 322w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.34.03-225x300.png 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Pdf à télécharger en bas de page (licence creative commons). En français <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/04DLyPTu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joyeux bordel</a>: Tactiques, principes &amp; théories pour faire la révolution</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ecologie | économie circulaire</strong> | climat | guides etc.</p>



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<li>La <a href="http://laressourceriedesbatignolles.org/les-consignes-dapports/" data-type="URL" data-id="http://laressourceriedesbatignolles.org/les-consignes-dapports/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ressourcerie Batignolles&nbsp;</a> | <a href="https://www.recyclivre.com/nos-engagements.php" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.recyclivre.com/nos-engagements.php" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Recyclivres</a> collecte / achat / vente de livres d&rsquo;occasion</li>



<li><a href="https://www.recyclivre.com/shop/recherche?orderby=price&amp;orderway=asc&amp;s=dressage+chien&amp;submit_search=" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.recyclivre.com/shop/recherche?orderby=price&amp;orderway=asc&amp;s=dressage+chien&amp;submit_search=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Recyclivres</a></li>



<li>BonPote&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://bonpote.com/10-actions-simples-pour-devenir-ecolo/" target="_blank">10 actions simples pour devenir écolo</a>&nbsp; avec infographie à la fin à imprimer&#8230;</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yYwvg4c2i7BLK3_AG0Ak7S86F_y4fK95" target="_blank">Ressources climat</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>



<li>« Nature, Santé &amp; Engagement Vers une nouvelle approche de la transformation écologique »&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fabriquespinoza.org/wp-content/uploads/CP-Fabrique-Spinoza-Etude-Nature-21-mai-2021.pdf.pdf" target="_blank">pdf ici</a>&nbsp;| lien sur&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fabriquespinoza.org/prod_observatoire/nature-sante-et-engagement-vers-une-nouvelle-approche-de-la-transformation-ecologique/" target="_blank">Fabrique Spinoza</a></li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.challengeforearth.com/sensibilisation/le-guide-pour-se-former-a-lecologie/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://blog.challengeforearth.com/sensibilisation/le-guide-pour-se-former-a-lecologie/" target="_blank">Guide pour se former à l&rsquo;écologie</a> [blog challenge for earth]</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://reporterre.net/Ils-voulaient-changer-de-vie-et-sont-devenus-compagnons" data-type="URL" data-id="https://reporterre.net/Ils-voulaient-changer-de-vie-et-sont-devenus-compagnons" target="_blank">Reporterre sur le «compagnonnage»</a>, lieux collectifs / entreprises coopératives</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.wildforall.org/why-it-matters" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.wildforall.org/why-it-matters" target="_blank">Wild For All</a> | <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://wildforall.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Wild-for-All-impact-report-04-04-2022.pdf" data-type="URL" data-id="http://wildforall.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Wild-for-All-impact-report-04-04-2022.pdf" target="_blank">Wild Actions For All</a> How to act for nature </li>



<li>Agence Régionale de la Biodiversité <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.arb-idf.fr/nos-travaux/publications/renaturer-les-villes/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.arb-idf.fr/nos-travaux/publications/renaturer-les-villes/" target="_blank">Renaturer les Villes</a></li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Livres Environnement | Activism | Animaux</h2>


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<li>Mathieu Dardaillon « <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Activez-talents-peuvent-changer-monde/dp/2379351074/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=2TA6UCDU30HIC&amp;keywords=matthieu+dardaillon&amp;qid=1699358507&amp;sprefix=mathieu+dardaillon%2Caps%2C63&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Activez vos talents »</a>, et &nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Tu-fais-quoi-dans-vie/dp/2379352453/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;crid=2TA6UCDU30HIC&amp;keywords=matthieu+dardaillon&amp;qid=1699358507&amp;sprefix=mathieu+dardaillon%2Caps%2C63&amp;sr=8-5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tu fais quoi dans la vie</a>&nbsp;&#8211; s&rsquo;engager dans une carrière à impact (2021)</li>



<li>Bénédicte Manier « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/million-r%C3%A9volutions-tranquilles-citoyens-changent/dp/B073H3H4CL/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=un+million+de+revolution+tranquille&amp;qid=1633769091&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">1 million de revolutions tranquilles</a> » Dès sa première édition, en 2012, cet œuvre a été la première à décrire la dimension mondiale des alternatives économiques, démocratiques et écologiques mises en place par la société civile.&nbsp;</li>



<li>David Oswald Mitchell « <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Beautiful-Trouble-Toolbox-Revolution/dp/B01DGFUU0K/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=beautiful+trouble&amp;qid=1633769156&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beautiful Trouble</a> » A toolbox for a revolution: a catalogue of activist tactics, principles, theories, and case-studies, organized into 2-3 page bursts consistent with Christopher Alexander&rsquo;s notion of a design language. Pdf à télécharger ci-dessous (licence creative commons)</li>



<li>Todd Kashdan « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091282KPM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091282KPM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" target="_blank">The Art of Insubordination</a> »&nbsp;is the essential guide for anyone&nbsp;seeking to be heard, make change, and rebel against an unhealthy status quo.&nbsp;&nbsp;A thoroughly research-based set of practicable, actionable strategies for supporting ourselves and others to dissent without alienating everyone around us.</li>



<li><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/8TvxUTM" target="_blank">Active Hope:</a></strong> <a href="https://www.activehope.info" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.activehope.info/book-extracts" target="_blank">book</a> « The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, political polarization, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions.&nbsp;<em>Active Hope</em>&nbsp;shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we&rsquo;re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society. »</li>



<li>Liv Strömquist « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/2878272110/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/2878272110/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6" target="_blank">Grandeur et Décadence</a> »  Graphic novel (BD) « La finance qui règne sans partage, le gouffre qui ne cesse pas de se creuser entre richesse et pauvreté, la mainmise de la classe aisée blanche sur la culture et les médias, la gauche qui a renoncé à faire de la politique et l&rsquo;a remplacée par un creux moralisme&#8230; »</li>



<li>« <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/Most-Important-Comic-Book-Earth/dp/0744042828/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1652246977&amp;refinements=p_27%3ACara+Delevingne&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Cara+Delevingne" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.com/Most-Important-Comic-Book-Earth/dp/0744042828/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1652246977&amp;refinements=p_27%3ACara+Delevingne&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Cara+Delevingne" target="_blank">The Most Important Comic Book on Earth</a>« :<em> Stories to save the World </em>(2021)</li>



<li>« <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/book-explores-animal-welfare-through-the-eyes-of-a-vet/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/book-explores-animal-welfare-through-the-eyes-of-a-vet/" target="_blank">Through a vet&rsquo;s eyes</a> &#8211; <em>&nbsp;How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals</em> » (2022)</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Face-aux-animaux-%C3%A9motions-ambivalences/dp/2415001848/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1653741455&amp;refinements=p_27%3ALaurent+B%C3%A8gue-Shankland&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Laurent+B%C3%A8gue-Shankland" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/Face-aux-animaux-%C3%A9motions-ambivalences/dp/2415001848/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1653741455&amp;refinements=p_27%3ALaurent+B%C3%A8gue-Shankland&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Laurent+B%C3%A8gue-Shankland" target="_blank">Face aux animaux</a> &#8211; Nos émotions, nos préjugés, nos ambivalences (2022). Livre qui révèle les profils individuels et les circonstances qui favorisent une diminution de notre empathie envers eux. L&rsquo;auteur montre que nos relations avec eux, de l’attachement à la maltraitance, éclairent profondément notre identité et notre rapport à autrui.</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Mon-ann%C3%A9e-z%C3%A9ro-souffrance-animale/dp/B092HF7CBG/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1655296530&amp;refinements=p_27%3Ade+Yolaine+de+La+Bigne&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2&amp;text=de+Yolaine+de+La+Bigne" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/Mon-ann%C3%A9e-z%C3%A9ro-souffrance-animale/dp/B092HF7CBG/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1655296530&amp;refinements=p_27%3Ade+Yolaine+de+La+Bigne&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2&amp;text=de+Yolaine+de+La+Bigne" target="_blank">Mon année zéro souffrance animale</a>  « Avec cet ouvrage coup de poing, Yolaine de La Bigne ne cherche pas simplement à éveiller nos consciences, elle nous donne des clés simples et pratiques pour nous impliquer au quotidien et agir concrètement contre la souffrance animale »</li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/Defending-Animals-Finding-Animal-Protection/dp/0262048280/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/Defending-Animals-Finding-Animal-Protection/dp/0262048280/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank">Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection</a> (2023): Globally recognized expert Kendra Coulter takes readers across the different landscapes of animal protection to meet people and animals of all kinds, from cruelty investigators to forensic veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators and conservation leaders to animal lawyers and entrepreneurs, each working in their own ways to defend animals. Bringing unparalleled research and a distinct and nuanced analytical viewpoint,&nbsp;<em>Defending Animals</em>&nbsp;shows that animal protection is not only physical, intellectual, and emotional work but also a labor so rooted in empathy and care that it just might bridge the vast divide between polarized people and help create a more humane future for us all.</li>



<li><a href="https://www.fayard.fr/documents-temoignages/leco-anxiete-9782213717203" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.fayard.fr/documents-temoignages/leco-anxiete-9782213717203" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">L&rsquo;Eco-Anxiété </a>&#8211; Vivre sereinement dans un monde abîmé </li>



<li><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/08SwZJDp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ReSisters</a> « Roman graphique écoféministe, quête initiatique et politique pour se réinventer un destin commun désirable et sortir du capitalisme néocolonial patriarcal »</li>



<li>« Apps » pour identifier (1) les <strong>oiseaux</strong>: <a href="https://birdnet.cornell.edu" data-type="URL" data-id="https://birdnet.cornell.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">birdnet</a> | Merlin (Cornell) et (2) les <strong>plantes</strong>: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.seek&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US" data-type="URL" data-id="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.seek&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">seek</a>, <a href="https://plantnet.org/en/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://plantnet.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">plantnet</a>, plantes toxiques: <a href="https://respe.net/maladie-equine/plantes-toxiques/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">respe</a> </li>



<li><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/stores/author/B0045ANKZI?ingress=0&amp;visitId=5cfd61a0-37f1-485b-9b94-c677b8452f2d&amp;ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Peter Wohlleben</a>, auteur de <a href="https://amzn.eu/d/hSxfjZV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">La vie secrete des arbres</a> entre autres, recommande le moteur de recherche <a href="https://www.ecosia.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Ecosia</strong></a>. Leurs initiatives et projets ont convaincu Wohlleben. Leur outil IA associé me semble intéressant également</li>
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<li><strong>Isabelle Tree</strong>: <strong><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/fpo7FF9" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.eu/d/fpo7FF9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Le réensauvagement à la ferme de Knepp</a></strong>, l&rsquo;original en anglais:
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<li><strong>Projet « Wilding » (UK)</strong>: « <em>Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, </em><strong><em>they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe</em>.</strong> »  <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw084uIMo8Y" target="_blank">trailer youtube</a> | <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/f0J4KlN" target="_blank">Book of Wilding Practical Guide</a> | <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/52RpXWF" target="_blank">Graphic novel Wilding</a> | essay <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/5vFLRJ9" target="_blank">Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm</a>&nbsp;<br><strong>autre ex.: (Pays bas)</strong> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/1bkuBfT" target="_blank">Rewilding</a> « <em>Rewilding is the first popular book on the ground-breaking <strong>science behind the restoration of wild nature. »</strong></em></li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">source pour la parabole:  <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jour-apres-jour.com/2014/09/17/la-parabole-de-l-etoile-de-mer-agir-enfance/" target="_blank" data-type="URL" data-id="https://jour-apres-jour.com/2014/09/17/la-parabole-de-l-etoile-de-mer-agir-enfance/">jour après jour</a>  | En anglais « Starfish Story »:</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">source <a href="https://insight-smart.weebly.com/emotional-agility.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://insight-smart.weebly.com/emotional-agility.html</a></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Source citations : <strong><a href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Susan David Emotional Agility</a></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/" target="_blank">Acceptance and Commitment Therapy</a></strong></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kArjCybqpc" target="_blank">How to be selfish</a> (School of Life)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.skepticspath.org/blog/how-to-be-intelligently-selfish-dalai-lama/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.skepticspath.org/blog/how-to-be-intelligently-selfish-dalai-lama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Skeptics way to enlightenment</a> | Notes on the Dalai Lama and Selfishness</p>



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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>An increasing number of my female patients suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS), in French SPM (syndrome prémenstruel). Let&#8217;s stop the</p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/pms-spm/">PMS | SPM</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An increasing number of my female patients suffer from <strong>premenstrual syndrome (PMS)</strong>, in French <strong>SPM</strong> (syndrome prémenstruel).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Let&rsquo;s stop the suffering: here are some ressources to consider.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many of the symptoms are at the intersection of stress, nutritional deficiencies and toxins, and even trauma. Thus, the treatment approach should reflect state of the art medical and nutritional research, versus the « take the (contraceptive) pill » traditional approach, that is too often the go-to solution for many health care providers. <a href="https://www.larabriden.com/how-the-pill-switches-off-hormones-and-why-that-matters/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.larabriden.com/how-the-pill-switches-off-hormones-and-why-that-matters/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Birth Control Switches Off Hormones and Why That Matters</a> (site web Dr Lara Briden)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Excerpt from Dr Lara Briden&rsquo;s (a naturopathic doctor with a busy hormone practice) highly recommendable book, <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B075NDJC2J/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B075NDJC2J/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1" target="_blank">Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods&nbsp;</a></strong> (take the updated last edition from 2018! The book can be scolled through on Amazon)</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="576" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-576x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1863" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-576x1024.jpg 576w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-169x300.jpg 169w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-768x1365.jpg 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-864x1536.jpg 864w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/pmsspm-scaled.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" /></figure>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-25-at-14.58.13.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1865" style="width:160px;height:258px" width="160" height="258" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-25-at-14.58.13.png 424w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-25-at-14.58.13-186x300.png 186w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px" /></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">*Vitex works for some and not for others.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">« <strong>Period Repair Manual</strong> is your guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and natural hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Topics include:</strong></p>



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<li>How to come off hormonal birth control</li>



<li>What your period should be like</li>



<li>What can go wrong</li>



<li>How to talk to your doctor</li>



<li>Treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis</li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The second edition contains insights from Professor Jerilynn Prior, more than 300 new references, and an additional chapter on perimenopause and menopause.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Written by a naturopathic doctor with more than twenty years experience, this book is a compilation of everything that works for hormonal health. » (source: Amazon)</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Dr. Lara Briden&rsquo;s Blog</h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">..and the article « <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.larabriden.com/how-to-improve-premenstrual-mood-symptoms/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.larabriden.com/how-to-improve-premenstrual-mood-symptoms/" target="_blank">How to Improve Premenstrual Mood Symptoms &#8211; A Summary of Natural Treatments</a></strong>« </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Blog excerpt: « As I discuss in my blog posts about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.larabriden.com/8-ways-that-magnesium-rescues-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">magnesium</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.larabriden.com/benefits-of-taurine-for-womens-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taurine</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.larabriden.com/the-end-of-pms-vitamin-b6-and-other-serious-cures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vitamin B6</a>, all three nutrients can improve premenstrual mood symptoms and work by reducing inflammation and boosting levels of the calming neurotransmitter GABA. Vitamin B6 can also reduce histamine. Take care with vitamin B6 because too much can cause nerve damage. »</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://www.larabriden.com/sample/prm2-ch1-2.pdf" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.larabriden.com/sample/prm2-ch1-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Period Repair sample chapter</a></strong></p>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B08NZ1M1Z9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B08NZ1M1Z9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" target="_blank">Hormone Repair Manual</a></strong>&nbsp;(2021) is a practical guide to feeling better in your 40s, 50s, and beyond. It explains how to navigate the change of perimenopause and relieve symptoms with natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, and bioidentical hormone therapy.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://www.larabriden.com/sample/hrm-ch1-2.pdf" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.larabriden.com/sample/hrm-ch1-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hormone Repair sample chapter</a></strong></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Patient recommendation (thanks to S.H.) <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07L6LNRZ7/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07L6LNRZ7/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" target="_blank">Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You</a></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dr Sara Gottfried: <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Hormone-Cure-Energized-Naturally-Gottfried/dp/1451666950/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1640441796&amp;refinements=p_27%3ADr.+Sara+Gottfried&amp;s=english-books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Dr.+Sara+Gottfried" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.fr/Hormone-Cure-Energized-Naturally-Gottfried/dp/1451666950/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1640441796&amp;refinements=p_27%3ADr.+Sara+Gottfried&amp;s=english-books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Dr.+Sara+Gottfried" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol </a></strong>(2014)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Related post:  <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/psychonutrition-nutritional-psychiatry/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/psychonutrition-nutritional-psychiatry/" target="_blank">Psychonutrition | Nutritional Psychiatry </a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.</em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What is ACT?</h3>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Medical conditions such as <strong>anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), addictions, and substance abuse can all benefit from ACT</strong> and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">ACT develops psychological flexibility and is a form of behavioral therapy that combines mindfulness skills with the <strong>practice of self-acceptance</strong>. When aiming to be more accepting of your thoughts and feelings, commitment plays a key role.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the case of ACT, <strong>you commit to facing the problem head-on rather than avoiding your stresses</strong>. Imagine committing to actions that help you facilitate your experience and embrace any challenge.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>It is also effective as a life-affirming and inspirational perspective of self-determination</strong>. (source: <em>How does ACT work</em>, see link below)</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>This summer I worked through these two ACT Journals and found them exceptionally transformative and helpful.</strong></h4>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I started with the very streamlined, « essentials of ACT » version, the white and green one by Dr Nic Hopper <em>et al. </em>(UK) and continued right away with the blue and white, more recent US-version by Dr Hill and Dr Sorensen. The latter gives you a complete overview of what can be called all « ACT processes ». Why not bying a notebook and writing your answers in them, so you can do it again in a year? Reading them alone will not be helpful.<strong> There has been a tremendous amount of publications on ACT, but what matters with ACT is what you DO not what you KNOW about ACT. It is about activating in a values oriented direction</strong>. Therefore I found these workbooks, with their focus on activation and practicing, tremendously helpful and well thought out. Where to purchase the journals:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hopper et al « <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1912755785/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1912755785/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy Journal</a>« <em>The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Journal</em>&nbsp;is designed to help individuals focus on the things that are most important to them by identifying personal values and putting them centre-stage where they can best guide actions and decisions.</p>


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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sorensen, Hill « <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ACT-Daily-Journal-Acceptance-Commitment/dp/1684037379/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1640437881&amp;refinements=p_27%3ADebbie+Sorensen&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Debbie+Sorensen" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ACT-Daily-Journal-Acceptance-Commitment/dp/1684037379/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1640437881&amp;refinements=p_27%3ADebbie+Sorensen&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=Debbie+Sorensen" target="_blank">ACT Daily Journal &#8211; Get unstuck and live fully »</a>« When you are faced with life’s challenges, it’s easy to lose track of what’s important, get stuck in your thoughts and emotions, and become bogged down by day-to-day problems. Even if you’ve made a commitment to live according to your core values, the ‘real-world’ has a way of driving a wedge between you and a deeper, more meaningful life. Now there’s a flexible program for learning how to practice a popular, proven-effective therapy protocol on your schedule! With The ACT Daily Journal, you’ll learn all about the six core processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)―including mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based living―and even learn about a seventh: self-compassion.&nbsp; » (source: Amazon)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ptsd.va.gov/appvid/mobile/actcoach_app_public.asp" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.ptsd.va.gov/appvid/mobile/actcoach_app_public.asp" target="_blank"><strong>App : ACT COACH</strong></a></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What is Willfulness? How to achieve willingness?</h3>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Related: <strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/" target="_blank">Emotional Agility</a></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Source: <a href="https://positivepsychology.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://positivepsychology.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/</a></p>



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<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/">ACT | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Highlights from Symposium 2019 By Bessel van der Kolk May/June 2019 All human endeavors are intrinsically political, including the way our</p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/the-politics-of-mental-health/">The Politics of Mental Health</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Highlights from Symposium 2019</h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">By <a href="https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/author/bio/2203/bessel-van-der-kolk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bessel van der Kolk</a><a href="https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/toc/180/taking-wing" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> May/June 2019</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All human endeavors are intrinsically political, including the way our mental health system is organized: how mental problems are diagnosed, what kind of research gets funded, and what treatments are approved as “evidence based,” as well as what interventions are reimbursed by insurance companies.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The story of how the diagnosis of <strong>PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)</strong> came into being is a good example. Back in the late ’70s, it became increasing difficult to ignore the fact that hundreds of thousands of Vietnam veterans were profoundly disturbed after coming back from the war. T<strong>hey sought treatment because they kept blowing up with rage, were unable to calm themselves down and go to sleep, and because they couldn’t feel fully alive in the present. </strong>Given the political and economic consequences of acknowledging the connection between the struggles these vets were having and their combat experience, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) tried to define the problem as a matter of individual pathology. In effect, they wanted to blame these guys’ troubles on their genetics and upbringing.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Through a hard-fought political process, involving veterans organizations and mental health professionals, the diagnosis of PTSD eventually was created in 1980. Part of the politics of the process was that we had to make that direct link between vets’ struggles and their combat experiences. Hence, we focused on nightmares and flashbacks—intrusive memories of traumatic combat experiences—<strong>while downplaying problems with emotional engagement and emotion regulation, issues that we gradually came to understand as being the result of trauma changing fundamental brain processes</strong>. <strong>To this day, the PTSD diagnosis focuses on having unpleasant memories of the past, rather than on emotion regulation and having problems fully engaging in the present.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Subsequently, a number of us who’d been involved in that first step progressed to the next issue: <strong>PTSD was a pretty good diagnosis for war veterans, but it was clear that there’s a much larger population of traumatized people. For every vet who comes back messed up, there are at least 30 kids who get abused, molested, abandoned, and neglected at home. Even though they’re quite different from combat vets in many ways, they show many of the same symptoms. </strong>In response to our lobbying, the American Psychiatric Association funded a field trial for a new diagnosis: <strong>complex PTSD or DESNOS</strong> (<strong>Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified</strong>). After that study was completed, the PTSD committee voted 19 to 2 to create a new diagnosis in the DSM. But to our amazement, that <strong>diagnosis was eventually left out of the&nbsp;<em>DSM-IV</em>, despite overwhelming research evidence for a much more complex developmental response to trauma.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>As a result of that political decision, we still don’t have an accurate way of diagnosing the majority of patients who were traumatized in the context of their early attachment relationships</strong>. <strong>The DSM gives us a plethora of options: PTSD, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder, Conduct Disorder, or Borderline Personality Disorder, all depending on the clinician’s whim </strong>and what will optimally be reimbursed by insurance companies. However, all these <strong>“diagnoses” ignore the most common etiology of these disorders: early trauma and disruptions in the safety of the attachment system.</strong> If we were to acknowledge the social realities that give rise to these conditions, we could stop looking for some mysterious biochemical or genetic origin that keeps innumerable research labs in business and start putting our resources into becoming a public health system that focuses on prevention and repair, creating optimal conditions for children and young adults to develop and to thrive.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There’s another side to the story of the PTSD diagnosis. Once it was formally recognized, a substantial amount of research money became available to develop “evidence-based” practices. I’ve always been a great proponent of the need to demonstrate the efficacy of mental health treatments, including how well they work, for whom, and what their limitations are. In fact, my colleagues and I have published numerous <strong>peer-reviewed scientific papers on the efficacy of a variety of psychiatric treatments, from Prozac to EMDR, and from yoga to theater programs and neurofeedback</strong>. However, the rush to evidence-based treatments, paradoxically, had a devastating effect on our field. In effect, the moment researchers found that their particular treatment approach was better than doing nothing, they declared it evidence based. That made some sense, but then politics took over from honest scientific exploration.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Currently, the science of treatment development is largely stuck, because <strong>most research funding is focused on basic mechanisms, correlations, neuroimaging studies, and epigenetics, while there’s virtually no federal research funding available to investigate truly innovative treatments. Only the most easily protocolized treatments, like CBT, prolonged exposure, medications, and EMDR, have been thoroughly researched. Interestingly, though medications have been shown, over and over again, to be only marginally helpful for PTSD, they keep being prescribed to the tune of billions of dollars per year.</strong> </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In contrast, somatic therapies, such as Sensorimotor psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing, haven’t been thoroughly researched for their efficacy, nor has hypnosis, which for about a century was widely regarded as the treatment of choice for PTSD.</strong> <strong>There’s also little “hard” evidence for <em>Internal Family Systems therap</em>y, or neurofeedback, even though many clinicians who specialize in the treatment of traumatized individuals consider these among the most effective treatments currently available.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The result of the politics of diagnosis and “evidence-based” treatments is that in most settings that depend on insurance reimbursement, clinicians are mandated to use treatments of questionable efficacy. The fact that study after study shows that these mandated treatments have at best a 40 percent drop in symptomatology, which is only slightly better than placebo, after a third of the patients drop out, seems not to have raised enough concern about wasted lives and wasted resources to affect their growing influence. Meanwhile, the VA, by its reliance on evidence-based approaches, has been a major factor in discouraging the expanded exploration of effective treatments. So once again, we’re faced with a political reality: many of the treatments sophisticated clinicians would consider most effective are only available to people who can pay out of pocket.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The impact of pervasive trauma in our society continues to be largely ignored. We know today that one out of eight kids in the U.S. has been a victim of maltreatment, and that half of all kids in the world are exposed to extreme violence. The Adverse Childhood Experiences studies have demonstrated that early exposure to family violence and emotional abuse is the largest and costliest public health issue in America</strong>. As a society, we mobilize against threats like ISIS, but most <strong>American kids are not the victims of foreign terrorists; they’re the victims of the social conditions in which they mature.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So the question is why, as a society, do we continue to avoid recognizing the devastating impact of early abuse and neglect? Here, again, politics is at play. In most of Europe, Singapore, Japan, and Korea, governments have incorporated evidence of the devastating effects of family violence, social deprivation, and poverty into public policy. In effect, they’ve said, “Okay, we’ve got to try to abolish poverty and spend our tax money on making it safe for children to grow up in our society.” In the States, we have yet to do that. Maybe this is one of the factors that accounts for the incarceration rate in the Netherlands being 68 out of 100,000, while in the U.S. it’s 860 out of 100,000. We’re the only country in the Western world that doesn’t have early parental leave; our mental and physical health depends more on our zip code than our DNA code. Acknowledging the reality of early deprivation, abuse, and neglect inevitably would lead to an invitation to change the social system. But the fields of psychiatry and psychology have failed to squarely face that reality.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As long as we live with a diagnostic system without scientific validity, all of us are part of the problem. Too often, we label our patients with the diagnoses that are in line with what the insurance companies will reimburse us for, rather than what’s actually going on. In fact, many clinicians confide to me that they don’t bother making diagnoses at all. But how can you treat anybody and ask to be paid for your services if you don’t have a clear idea of what’s wrong and what you need to do to fix it? How would you feel if you went to a cardiologist who gave you the treatment that the insurance company will pay for without really bothering to find out what’s wrong with you? How can we respect ourselves, and be respected by our non-mental health colleagues, if we continue to rely on the opinions of insurance companies and ignore the basics of good diagnosis and a solid scientific approach to clinical care?</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If people distrust mental health professionals, they may have a good reason for it. We’ve become slaves to the insurance companies, and until we start dealing with the politics of mental health care today, we’re stuck. It’s nice and comforting to come to the Networker Symposium and see so many of our colleagues doing such innovative work. But this conference isn’t the world that we live in. We need to recognize the politics that are shaping our field and let our voices be heard outside the walls of this hotel.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is the author of</em>&nbsp;The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Healing of Trauma&nbsp;<em>and more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications on trauma, mechanisms, and treatment.</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">source <a href="https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2368/the-politics-of-mental-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2368/the-politics-of-mental-health</a></p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/the-politics-of-mental-health/">The Politics of Mental Health</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/">Emotional Agility</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.susandavid.com/about-susan-david#about-the-author" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.susandavid.com/about-susan-david#about-the-author" target="_blank">Susan David, Ph.D.</a> « is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Her #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling book,&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Agility-Unstuck-Embrace-Change-ebook/dp/B016JPTPDW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=emotional%20agility%20kindle&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;linkId=fab4380eb4896c5e65f4f0f1ff23744f&amp;qid=1491245589&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=susandavid09-20" target="_blank">Emotional Agility</a> based on the concept that <em>Harvard Business Review</em>&nbsp;heralded as a Management Idea of the Year and winner of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award, describes the <strong>psychological skills critical to thriving in times of complexity and change</strong>. Susan’s <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_david_the_gift_and_power_of_emotional_courage" target="_blank">TED Talk</a> on the topic of emotional agility has been seen by more than 8 million people. » (source: author website)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here are some visual recaps of the main ideas. Follow her on Linkedin if you&rsquo;d like to have those in your newsfeed. There is a close <strong>overlap with the ideas of </strong><a href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/act-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>ACT &#8211; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy</strong>.</a></p>



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<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emotional-agility/">Emotional Agility</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Excerpeted from « This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings » by Julia Samuel “Pain is the agent</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Excerpeted from  « This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings » by Julia Samuel</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Pain is the agent of change: if we build walls around it, it remains untouched and alive inside us, slowly contaminating our other feelings. It is in the movement between the poles of the past and the future that we adapt. Our innate drive to get on is profoundly powerful, yet we need to slow down, to give ourselves space between our old and new selves. In therapy, we call this a ‘fertile void’, a time of not knowing, a neutral zone of uncertainty that is uncomfortable or even crazy-making. When we block it, the same problems may reoccur in every phase of life. If we accept the pain of change, and learn how to adapt, we will have the energy and confidence to take the next step.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Even the most robust people can find change difficult. The thread that connects them, whatever their age or circumstance, is that each person had to work on themselves actively to understand their unique response to change, and develop the necessary coping mechanisms. ”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“In the last fifty years there have been seismic shifts in the West in every aspect of life, and now people have to cope with more change than ever before. The past is no longer a reliable predictor of the future, and the twenty-first century is more fluid: all of the old certainties – age, gender, sexuality – are being questioned and boundaries broken. It seems we live in a culture of limitless choice. Most of these changes may be positive, but life is now infinitely more complex. These factors, and the overwhelming number of choices we face, have heightened the possibility of more existential crises.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>“A good life is built with good relationships.’ How we construct them is the foundation of everything else. Again and again, through my research and work with my clients, I see we cannot do it alone, whatever life stage we have reached. People need people, and the quality of those relationships is what matters most to us when we look back at our lives.”<br><br>“Life is a set of alternating phases, a period of change followed by a period of stability, then another change. Research shows we tend to take stock and think about change every seven to ten years (yes, the seven-year itch is a thing), and the process of change can take up to a year to be integrated into our life. Sometimes the changes feel like success, at others failure, but the key is to learn from them.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>“It is well researched that the more we allow ourselves to learn and expand in response to life changes the more likely we are to thrive. ”<br>“Often we adapt to change by making tiny adjustments. As in all psychological theories, nothing is certain, in some cases a sudden shift can liberate and transform someone. ”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“This too shall pass” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/14/this-too-shall-pass-by-julia-samuel-review-psychology" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/14/this-too-shall-pass-by-julia-samuel-review-psychology" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">review by The Guardian</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The only constant is change, said Heraclitus in about 500BC, yet we are rarely prepared for the significant transitions in our lives. Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist and grief counsellor, has followed up her acclaimed debut, Grief Works, with these “accounts of change, crisis and hopeful beginnings” organised around the themes of family, love, work, health and identity. She draws on patient case studies as well as the insights of 30 years of clinical practice.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the space between phases – known as the &lsquo;fertile void&rsquo; in therapy parlance – we must sit with discomfort for a while</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Relationships of all types must adapt to survive; Samuel quips that she herself has had five different marriages, all with the same husband. We meet a mother learning to loosen the grip on her adult daughter, and a man adjusting to the upheaval of new fatherhood. In her discussion of love, Samuel explores “the friction between the desire for predictability versus freedom – safety versus excitement”. She shares stories about marriage, infidelity, sexual obsession and looking for love at various stages of life. Maria, a married woman with a steady lover, is struggling to overcome an infatuation with a second lover (where does she find the time?) after he breaks off the affair. All those involved, including her husband, are respectful of the relationships.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Becoming a grandmother at 47 led me, as a therapist, to rethink my response to change</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Samuel considers first jobs, maternity leave, getting fired and retiring. The theme of health covers expected changes, such as the menopause, as well as illness. A story from Grief Works about a family mourning their four-year-old who died in a swimming pool has continued to haunt me. The most heart-wrenching case here is that of Ben, a widowed father of two who has just started to adjust to his bereavement when he receives a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. Samuel has not cherry-picked cases to portray herself as a saviour. Nor does she consider therapy a cure-all: she concedes what Ben needs is not counselling but a turn of luck.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the chapter on identity we encounter a Kurdish refugee, a young man coming out, and KT, a patient who identifies as gender non-binary. Samuel calls KT’s ghosting lover “a complete fucker” (and dubs another patient’s bullying investor “the Tosser”).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sometimes change arrives abruptly, other times it’s part of the natural ebb and flow of life. Research shows that people tend to take stock every seven to 10 years. In the space between phases – known as the “fertile void” in therapy parlance – we must sit with the discomfort for a while. Bypassing it can curb “potential growth” and satisfaction in the new phase.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For Samuel, the key to resilience is the quality of our relationships: family and friends can buoy us in turbulent times. Yet: “In England more than a million older people can go for over a month without speaking to their family, friend or neighbour.” The observations of her patients’ progress speak to the value of prolonged talk therapy, as opposed to the less costly cognitive behavioural approach currently favoured by the NHS. We tend to invoke the phrase “this too shall pass” at moments “when life sucks”, Samuel writes. “But here’s the hitch”: moments when life is good will also inevitably pass. Heraclitus’s theory of flux stated that we never step into the same river twice: the river has changed, or else we have. With Samuel guiding us through the rapids, we can forge ahead “with a little more joy, clarity, confidence and … hope”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp;This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings by Julia Samuel is published by Penguin</p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/this-too-shall-pass/">This too shall pass</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago I read Dr Alain Sauteraud’s book on grief “Psychologie du deuil – vivre après ta mort”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A few years ago I read Dr Alain Sauteraud’s book on grief “Psychologie du deuil – vivre après ta mort” in which he also talks about grieving the death of an animal. <strong>As he explains, for many the experience of losing an animal can be much harder than losing a human being: the animal cannot cheat on us, cannot hurt us with words, cannot leave us. We idealize the animal and therefore grief can be much worse than in the case of a human, even a loved one. </strong>Often, in our experience with humans at one point at least there was some form of disappointment or pain. And therefore, there is more ambivalence in our relationships with other humans.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.37.13.png" alt="" class="wp-image-808" width="278" height="245" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.37.13.png 702w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.37.13-300x265.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px" /><figcaption><span class="has-inline-color has-dark-gray-color">From <em>what for? </em>to <em>what now, what next</em></span>?</figcaption></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What does the death of a pet mean to its owner? How did they experience the death of their pet? How did they deal with the loss? What helped them with their grief?</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“<strong>Not only your animal dies”, in German “Nicht nur dein Tier stirbt”, is the title of a book by Professor Marion Schmitt and Professor Peter Kunzmann, summarizing the outcomes of a 2-year research project</strong> co-financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. About 200 pet owners have contributed to this work by sending their experiences in texts, pictures, poems, photos, quotations.&nbsp; Furthermore, numerous academics and researchers have contributed to elucidate the experience of grief.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Below are a couple of selected extracts of this work. N.b. The choice of extracts is the personal decision of the translator and aims at making this information available to an English-speaking population. They cannot replace the reading of the original work and might, as they are taken out of context, not perfectly translate the thoughts and intentions of the authors. My translation certainly doesn’t do justice to the work, its importance and its beauty, but I still wanted to make this significant work available to people outside the German-speaking area.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Preface</span></h2>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.46.56.png" alt="" class="wp-image-814" width="239" height="138" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.46.56.png 680w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.46.56-300x174.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief and emotions have their story, their context. For the introverted recluse, who had been abused, cheated on and left, the horse is the anchor in her life. The only one she could rely on. He was therapist and friend and the foundation of all of her self-esteem, of the recognition of her worth.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the single man, the dog is an emotional support and opener of doors to other people, a being which motivates him to get up and moving and who facilitates contact with others.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To the 80-year-old lady, the cat means structure, wants to be fed 3 times a day, she gives a reason to get out of bed in the morning. The cat gives stability in a world that changes much too quickly.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the mother, the dog is the last connection to the region where she grew up, to an earlier life, a happier past.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is about relationships. But not only.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many people feel left alone and not understood when they grieve.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Animals are not humans but they are more than just animals. Their death is about much more. What is the meaning of the death? We need to know the story, in order to understand the grief.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Introduction</span></h2>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.21.11-1002x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-831" width="322" height="328" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.21.11-1002x1024.png 1002w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.21.11-294x300.png 294w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.21.11-768x785.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.21.11.png 1284w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px" /><figcaption>Mary Oliver</figcaption></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As part of the project BELECAN (Behandlungsziele am Lebensende von Companion animals / therapeutic objectives at the end of the life of companion animals) pet owners have been invited, between 2017 and 2019, to contribute to above research by sending in texts etc. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">About 200 persons answered, 76% were female. They came mostly from Germany but also Switzerland, Austria, northern Italy, Greece. Most talked about their dogs 62%, followed by cats, horses, rabbits, donkeys, Guinee pigs and a hamster.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">More information on the project can be found at <a href="http://www.tiho-hannover.de/trauer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.tiho-hannover.de/trauer</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Professor Dr. Kunzmann is theologian, philosopher and at present Germany’s only Professor for ethics in veterinary medicine. (The other contributors are also quickly presented in this chapter)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The objectives of this book</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In particular pet owners without previous experience of loss regarding an animal should be supported with this document. These experience reports are supposed to help prepare people for this difficult event.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The moral values of tolerance and recognition / respect should be strengthened in the general population. « We want to draw attention to the importance of attitude towards others, which is often underestimated. It is important that we meet other people with acceptance, empathy and solidarity ».</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">The minimized grief</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Death is an uncomfortable subject. Grief and mourning are stigmatized as sign of weakness, and are associated with the “feminine” since the antiquity. They are not wanted in a male dominated world. Grief and intense emotional outbursts do not reflect social norms in the western world. Tears, helplessness, despair do not fit the ideal of beauty, strength, success.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief has become unfamiliar</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bereaved often have to confront the inability of others to understand, in particular in fringe areas like the unborn or companion animals. In the latter case, there is often an additional difficulty: the owner has to decide whether or not to euthanize.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We have to let go of the idea that we are killing an animal”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is not a disease, it is a normal behaviour after a loss. This loss can be a living being or an object or an abstract construct (goals, dreams etc). Grief helps us understand the new situation, helps us find an adequate way to deal with it, helps us with a new orientation, and integration of the loss in our own life, in order to come out of this situation strengthened. Most people in the western world make their first experience with death only at age 30 or later. Death is no longer a common occurrence.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is about acting responsibly.(..)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vets also don’t want to let the animal go, often they know the owners, their stories. During university studies vets don’t learn to deal with emotions. High numbers of suicides show that vets face similar stress like owners, and in particular young vets have not learned to deal with it.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many owners find solace among their family members but all too often they face minimization of their grief. The “just get a new animal”, “it was only an animal” etc. are extremely hurtful.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is as individual as the grieving person. The grief remains, in spite of all tentative to find similarities, common aspects, a complex, highly individual experience. As individual as the lost relationship, is the story behind it.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.14.23-1024x988.png" alt="" class="wp-image-829" width="260" height="250" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.14.23-1024x988.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.14.23-300x289.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.14.23-768x741.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.14.23.png 1028w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many different things can help people grief. It is important to allow the experience of grief, to work through your loss and to organize a new life.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We need a new grief culture. We need a new understanding of humanness. Humans have to be encouraged to show and express their pain. We have a problem of communication. People don’t talk any more, nobody knows other people’s stories. In particular in a more and more multicultural world we need more understanding, more empathy, more mindfulness, more acceptance, more warmth, more compassion.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nobody should feel ashamed for his grief.&nbsp; But to understand the experience, one must know the story. People have to tell the story of their life with their pet, we must not allow the story to die.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">My memories of the death of a beloved animal (Silke Deschamps)</span></h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-14-at-15.18.58-768x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-873" width="185" height="247" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-14-at-15.18.58-768x1024.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-14-at-15.18.58-225x300.png 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-14-at-15.18.58-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-14-at-15.18.58.png 1210w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(nb. This is a particularly striking and beautiful chapter on the felt experience of moving through grief that I found tremendously helpful. My time will not allow me to translate all of it, just a few excerpts).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I start feeling it weeks before, almost as if the animal told me what will happen. Nonetheless it hits me hard and unprepared, and each time I feel as if a part of me leaves with the animal. As if a part of me would go with the animal, like a souvenir. And the opposite is true too. A part of the animal stays here. The memories and stories keep the animal alive. At the same time, I look back with sadness and longing. The loss teaches me a kind of acceptance for life itself. Knowing that we own nothing and everything is finite gives depth to our existence and, paradoxically, a feeling of eternity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One feels like the smallest person on earth who cannot do anything against life.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’m with you till the end. I feel it when his end is nigh and try to give him as much love as I can. And still I’m completely unprepared, I feel like hit with a hammer.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I go with him as far as I can. I don’t fear death. I’ve seen animals and humans die, no matter what came before the death, death in itself was a calm, un-exhausting moment that passed like any other moment. There is nothing that we have to fear.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The “change of the location” has a connection with this world, the connection is love and it cannot tear apart. I believe everything exists to live and learn and that everyone, human and animal, looks for a new task for themselves. Just to make new experiences and to continue to develop.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Talking about memories until even I cannot hear it anymore: I feel that helps me. Only people who have loved and lost an animal know how it feels.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.27-1024x870.png" alt="" class="wp-image-820" width="343" height="291" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.27-1024x870.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.27-300x255.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.27-768x652.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.27.png 1380w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What now? Animals will stay a part of my life. I know I’ll have to see many more die. Death is part of life. A silly, smart phrase that is unfortunately true. Caring for animals, the young, the old, the sick, fills me with joy, even grief cannot take that away from me. Grief is the worst of feelings but grief is love. And I cannot imagine a life without love.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Decisions about euthanasia</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Several chapters consist of quotations of pet owner’s letters)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I was shocked by the death of the first cat. That experience helped with the second”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“His death was peaceful. “</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.19-1024x617.png" alt="" class="wp-image-819" width="346" height="208" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.19-1024x617.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.19-300x181.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.19-768x463.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.32.19.png 1066w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The operation postponed his death by 6 month”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“My vet told me, only a few dogs die peacefully in their basket”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I was afraid of the hole that his death would leave in my life”</p>



<p class="has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph">“Some animal owners search for answers about the right moment on internet forums, they ask for criteria of ‘quality of life’ as if someone far away could answer the question if to euthanize the animal or not and when”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Of course, it is a horrible loss. But the animal has the privilege that we can spare them needless suffering. That they can die with dignity”.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Not only your animal dies</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When the time comes to let go an animal, one gets the impression that several aspects, dimensions, of the relationship are densified and concentrated. People experience deep gratitude, relive happy memories, or painful guilt which can entangle in intense despair and grief. Some forget quickly. Some distance internally from the experience. Others react with idealization of the animal.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When they say goodbye, the true nature of the relationship with the animal shows. Death, this dark secret, seals it and reveals it. Death also reveals some aspects of the human that he might not have known about himself. The theologian Simonis says that death is the price of love. The pain comes not from life being finite but from losing what matters to our heart. It is only because of the link between the dead and the human, because of our affection for it, that death hurts us. For many humans, death puts a mysterious end to a unrepeatable relationship. This is why we have to take the grief of a human, who lost an animal, seriously. (…)</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Grief about an animal in a psychotherapeutic-psychosomatic perspective (Dr. med A. Gerdes)</span></h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Who says that you cannot touch happiness has never stroked a dog”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Horses give us the wings we don’t have”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An animal becomes social partner for many people in the west because of the increasing isolation of humans.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Confronting death becomes one of the biggest challenges during the life of a human, as there is no hope for a positive outcome. The death of an animal pushes us to consider that life is finite and that our own existence will end, which puts additional stress on the human soul. (..)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What impacts the process of grieving is the psychological stability of the grieving person, his social integration, his cultural background, possible earlier experiences with the loss of animals or humans, as well as the spiritual and religious involvement prior to the loss.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The French bulldog Molly motivates her owner to get out of the bed in the morning, giving her depressed owner a reason to get out of bed and a high degree of structure because she wants to be fed and walked regularly.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Whatever the nature of the human- animal cohabitation, examples like this show us that the loss of an animal can have a profound impact on the human. Another example is a Frisian gelding that helps his disabled owner find the motivation to overcome his limitations and try harder in order to keep riding the horse because “horses give us the wings we don’t have”.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.26.20.png" alt="" class="wp-image-815" width="393" height="171" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.26.20.png 586w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.26.20-300x131.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Depending on the individual deficit (social contact? movement? structure?) that arises in the life of a particular human, the grieving process will be different. The more isolated the human and the bigger the spectre of tasks the animal had, the more complex will the process of mourning be.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>In the phase of the opening of the emotions, it is important that the human reflects on the animal in its entirety, both good and bad aspects of the animal and to recognize and to accept all the emotions associated. If there is guilt this should be evoked.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A ritual like a burial or symbolic acts can be helpful for a favourable mourning process.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Obviously, well-meaning phrases like “it was just an animal”, “just get a new one” are not helpful or appropriate.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Depending on the role the animal played, I will be helpful for the human to find new structure, social activities and a positive future perspective. Those are the functions animals have for some humans but not all animals have such important roles.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.23.35-1024x947.png" alt="" class="wp-image-833" width="294" height="272" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.23.35-1024x947.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.23.35-300x277.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.23.35-768x710.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.23.35.png 1486w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mourning takes time. There is no “recipe” for moving through the different aspects of grief with as little suffering and as quickly as possible. There a many ways to express grief and most people find their way intuitively.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The process of mourning can only be accompanied by a therapist if this person has background knowledge about the cohabitation of the animal and its owner as well as the task that the animal accomplished for the human.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Memories and solace</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Several chapters consist of quotations of pet owner’s letters) </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is a beautiful chapter with quotations about <strong>what people found helpful</strong>. It revolves about gratefulness for what was, new perspectives (new animal, easier travelling etc.), social relations that were helpful (discussions, finding understanding), rituals (burials, ceremonies, artwork etc.)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“My life has since then changed. I’m no longer afraid of death”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I fear that I will forget his intricacies and his personality… that the memories will become weaker!”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Nobody could really help me”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“What helps? Time. Talking about it”</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.28.32.png" alt="" class="wp-image-816" width="233" height="205" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.28.32.png 966w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.28.32-300x265.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.28.32-768x677.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Distraction through work”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“What always helps me: work and movement”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I cannot stand having his things around, I had to put them out of sight”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I don’t need things to remember him, I will never forget him”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“His blanket is now in my bed”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I threw away his toys back then, I could not stand seeing them. I regret it now”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ve taken his pillow in the arm at the beginning. The more the smell vanished, the more the grief vanished too”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I have gotten a tattoo with his name”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I got a tattoo with his brand mark on my arm”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“An imprint of his paw is now engraved in our wedding rings”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I still have horn of my first mare, she raised me too”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I find it gruesome to keep fur to make jewellery”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“When my cat died, I realized with some fright that I had not kept anything from him. So I brushed the hair off the his blanket and the sofa to have a souvenir. Since then I have gotten me little wooden boxes for each of my cats. In each I’ll collect early on some hair or whiskers that they lose. And whenever I feel like it, I’ll take it out and look at it and happily remember the time we spent together”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We have photos of her everywhere”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We’ve made a collage of photos for the living room”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ve made a photo book with phrases. It was a lot of work but it helped me”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“A picture of him is on the screen of my computer”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ve put an obituary in the journal”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ve written a letter to my cat thanking him for the years together”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I’ve written an obituary, that was difficult. I’ve written the 22 years from her perspective and made a booklet out of it. That helped”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Rituals helped”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We’ve buried her in the garden. Doing this and creating the grave helped me”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The precious experiences I was able to make from puppy to old age and death. Animals explain us the whole life. In fast motion”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We’ve made a shroud together with the vet and a friend, the cat also left a footprint on it.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The night after the death I started writing about her, it grew into a book”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I read books about how others deal with it”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Music always helped me, it gave me the opportunity to think intensely about her”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I bought myself a book about grief, it normalized everything I felt. That helped me”</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.45.59-1024x844.png" alt="" class="wp-image-822" width="307" height="253" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.45.59-1024x844.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.45.59-300x247.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.45.59-768x633.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.45.59.png 1504w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“My family and friends know that animals are family”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Talking a lot with my husband and seeing he understands and feels the same way”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I did not dare having a new animal, because I fear of the end”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“It helps us to observe and to have contact to other dogs, the neighbour’s dogs for instance”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The dog of my daughter helped me”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I don’t want another animal but sometimes I wish I would not have to make that decision and that I would find a homeless animal”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Since I’m 12 years old I volunteer in an animal shelter. I had more than 16 dogs in pension over the past years. I train them and then they move to another home. And then I cry again as I’ve lost another dog. But I’ve found the perfect home for him, the best life for him”.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“It was impossible not to have a dog in our home”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“What helped me was to choose a “Whiskey” the following Saturday and to have a new task”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We’ve contacted the local shelter and got 3 new young half feral cats 10 days later. They have tinted the grieving period positively”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Today, a month later, I have digested the loss a bit. I can imagine having another pony”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Two days later I got another dog. I scrolled the internet and by chance I found the perfect puppy near me. He helped me over the loss. Nobody else, not even my mother or my partner or anybody else would have been able to do that.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“My husband, therapy, self-refection”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are many more mentions about burials, creating graves and ceremonies on regular intervals in the book, too many to translate.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Others are about not being alone, some put a mention on their facebook with photos and are soothed by the answers of their network. Talking about the animals with friends and family and remembering the good times, or oddities of the animal, even being knocked out accidentally by a horse, was mentioned as soothing. Also, focusing on the care of other / a new animal.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Taking on new responsibilities that are meaning making / sense making: one participant facilitates a local community group for pet owners who deal with grief, after doing a training in the field of grief / bereavement.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.11.04-1024x467.png" alt="" class="wp-image-826" width="499" height="227" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.11.04-1024x467.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.11.04-300x137.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.11.04-768x350.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.11.04.png 1510w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px" /></figure></div>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Saying farewell with dignity – Grief and Rituals</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Written by Andrea Bartsch, funeral speechmaker for animals</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It does not matter what or whom we mourn (a job, health, a partner) but a good farewell is always helpful, even necessary.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.12.01-769x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-827" width="362" height="482" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.12.01-769x1024.png 769w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.12.01-225x300.png 225w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.12.01-768x1023.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-15.12.01.png 940w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many have made the experience that it is helpful to “do” something, which expresses a new start / a change / farewell. Rituals facilitate orientation in new, sometimes challenging, situations.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Death is not cruel, it is part of life like birth. In particular, in the last days and hours, intense moments can arise which have long lasting effects and which people would not want to miss from their lives. It takes courage and strength to go this path of farewell in a conscious manner, but it is worth it.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">The burial</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then follows a chapter about the burial itself, if the animal is incinerated or not, if yes, where the urn is stored. If the ash is given back to nature etc. If somebody makes an artisanal personalized urn. Some have a real little graveyard in their garden that they take care of. How the ex-wife came back to join in for the burial as the dog was a “separation dog”.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">The hereafter</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then follows a chapter about how the pet owner imagines the life hereafter of his animal, some are down to earth, others have hopes of meeting again.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Without a home but not without love: grief in animal shelters</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This beautiful chapter tells the stories of loss in animal shelters, how humans did everything for animals young and old and still could not save them sometimes. Or how the owner of one elder dog could not take care of the animal and it was impossible to find a new owner until the end.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Epilogue</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is not universal.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is not predictable.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is not a disease.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.30.48-1024x475.png" alt="" class="wp-image-817" width="445" height="206" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.30.48-1024x475.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.30.48-300x139.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.30.48-768x356.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.30.48.png 1492w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief does not stop at one point.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many factors influence grief, every human, every animal is unique. And often it is about much more than the “loss”. Not only your animal dies. Companion animals are not just animals. They have a much greater meaning for their owners. They are loyal friends and members of the family. It is not about the absence of an animal but about the loss of something cherished.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are more and more companion animals in Germany. Every year about one tenth of them dies. You are not alone.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief is a process, an adaptation, a lesson. A path in a new life. The loss is integrated into life, into the personality. It stays. It is an interrelation of bitter sweet memories and joy of life.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Forgiveness and forgetting are not the same. You don’t have to forget or to pretend that the dead animal had never existed. But do forgive.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You are allowed to feel happiness again. Laugh. Live. Allow yourself to be happy again. Say “yes” to life. The dead animal would not have wanted anything else. And do forgive, most of all yourself. Just don’t forget the story.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Saying farewell: Information leaflet for dealing with grief</span></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How to deal with the loss of an animal? This section deals with euthanasia, funerals, the possibility to leave the animal with the vet, incineration, followed by the different aspects, “tasks”, we face when grieving:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">1 Realizing the death</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">2 Accepting, acknowledging the loss</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">3 Accepting and experiencing reactions of grief</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">4 Reconstructing the common life- and relationship-narration</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">5 Giving the “farewell” a “shape” (rituals etc.?)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">6 Finding a way back into life</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.53.15.png" alt="" class="wp-image-825" width="332" height="428" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.53.15.png 646w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-14.53.15-232x300.png 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Different ways to cope</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If nothing really seems to help, there are many ways to deal with your grief. Take time for mourning and walk this path in your own rythm. You know best what is good for you. This section therefore just provides a couple of suggestions about what other pet owners found helpful:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Allow yourself to grief, maybe with professional help</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grief together with others, family members, other pet owners etc.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cherish the memories you had with your animal, eg through rituals etc.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Write your thoughts and feelings down, eg in (farewell) letters, poems, songs</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Take time to look at photos, put framed pictures inside your home, or set them as background picture on your cell phone or computer</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Create photo books, pillows, collages, portraits, puzzles, candles, photo frames, calendars, jewellery made of hair or teeth, an engraving / tattoo, imprint of paws, names, or brand. Dutch brand <a href="https://www.vedder-vedder.com/en/collections/fingerprint-collection" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.vedder-vedder.com/en/collections/fingerprint-collection" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vedder&amp;Vedder </a>offer personalized paw imprinted jewelery</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Define the details of the burial, eg where to keep the animal: farewell / burial or incineration among friends, scattering the ashes together with friends, funeral oration, funeral feast, obituary in the journal, creation of the coffin or the urn, (virtual) gravestone or cross</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Create a memorial eg with jewellery, candles, flowers, pictures, personal objects and souvenirs</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Keep important souvenirs eg the collar and the leash, halter, the dog tag, pillow, blanket, baskets, toys etc.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Consider taking a new animal, or pension animal or good parenthood of an animal (or dog sitting or volunteer work in a shelter?)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Allowing yourself to live your life, eg. through everyday life, sport, movement, travelling</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Nb. For time reasons, there are a few chapters I have left out of this summary</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I believe writing a gratitude journal regularly while your animal is alive will be helpful too, once (s)he is gone. Also, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emdr/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/emdr/" target="_blank">EMDR</a> can help with traumatic grief.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="998" height="646" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.41.32.png" alt="" class="wp-image-811" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.41.32.png 998w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.41.32-300x194.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.41.32-768x497.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-13.41.32-850x550.png 850w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px" /></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Other sources</span></strong></h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are many books about Grief, I came across Julia Samuel’s “<a href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/this-too-shall-pass/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.reginakoehler.com/this-too-shall-pass/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">This too shall pass</a>” and “Grief works”, as well as “Good Grief” by Catherine Meyer and Anne Meyer</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many find the poetry of <strong>Mary Oliver </strong>healing, thanks to R. S. for bringing the work of this woman into my life</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">« Why We Need to Talk About Our Fear of Death »:  Article about death cafés in Dublin and in San Diego, and death rituals around the world, shamanistic ways of healing the body by moving the energy of trauma and loss out of the physical body</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/death-anxiety-talk-about-grieving#How-to-bring-the-conversation-of-death-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.healthline.com/health/death-anxiety-talk-about-grieving#How-to-bring-the-conversation-of-death-home</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Quotes about grief</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.yourtango.com/2017307220/quotes-grief-loss-after-tragedy-las-vegas-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.yourtango.com/2017307220/quotes-grief-loss-after-tragedy-las-vegas-shooting</a></p>



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<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/how-to-grieve-the-loss-of-an-animal/">How to grieve the loss of an animal</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Etre solitaire,
vivre seul n’est pas synonyme de solitude. Etre seul n’implique pas le
sentiment de solitude. Pourtant, bon nombre d’entre vous vivent mal la
solitude. Ils font face au vide intérieur et ne savent que faire de cette
horrible impression.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51-1024x605.png" alt="" class="wp-image-741" width="269" height="158" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51-1024x605.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51-300x177.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51-768x454.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51-850x500.png 850w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.51.png 1138w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La solitude n’est
pas une fatalité et nous pouvons en sortir, si nous le voulons, en donnant de
notre personne aux amis et aux autres en général (bénévolat etc.).
Paradoxalement, l’état de solitude peut se gérer en apprenant à être bien tout
seul&nbsp;! Autrement dit, nous avons la possibilité de vivre harmonieusement
seul avec nous-mêmes sans souffrir de solitude.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Petit questionnaire pour commencer</strong></h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Etes-vous à l’aise de rentrer seul chez vous&nbsp;?</li><li>Aimez-vous la décoration de votre domicile&nbsp;? </li><li>Aimez-vous disposer de temps seul chez vous&nbsp;?</li><li>Seul à la maison, vous sentez-vous sans énergie, anxieux, vide ou déprimé&nbsp;?</li><li>Seul chez vous, pensez-vous le temps de vous occuper de vous même&nbsp;?</li><li>Vous asseyez vous seul, de temps en temps, à la terrasse d’un café (ou à l’intérieur) ou dans un parc&nbsp;?</li><li>Allez vous parfois manger seul au restaurant ou au ciné&nbsp;?</li><li>.. au concert seul&nbsp;? au spectacle seul&nbsp;? au musée seul&nbsp;?</li><li>.. vous balader seul&nbsp;?</li><li>Faites vous du sport sans être accompagné&nbsp;?</li><li>Allez vous faire des achats autres qu’alimentaires sans être accompagné&nbsp;?</li><li>Partez vous en voyage non professionnel seul&nbsp;?</li></ul>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Petit programme d’entrainement pour ceux/celles qui éprouvent un malaise à vivre ces situations du quotidien en solo.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Si vous vous
appliquez régulièrement, vous réussirez à diminuer de façon significative votre
anxiété.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’objectif est
même, à long terme, de l’annuler complètement dans la plupart des contextes de
vie.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Il y a trois
facteurs de réussite à ce programme d’exposition aux situations
anxiogènes&nbsp;:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’application
réelle, la répétition, l’augmentation progressive de la durée.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">N’oubliez pas que
le préalable est d’ordre <strong>cognitif&nbsp;</strong>:
confrontez vos pensées automatiques «&nbsp;je ne peux pas&nbsp;!&nbsp;»,
«&nbsp;j’en suis pas capable&nbsp;» «&nbsp;j’ai peur, «&nbsp;les gens vont voir
que je suis seul(e)&nbsp;» dès qu’elles apparaissent.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.26.png" alt="" class="wp-image-743" width="239" height="165" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.26.png 792w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.26-300x207.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.26-768x529.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Les stratégies
suivantes sont d’ordre <strong>comportementaux</strong>.
</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Se dire capable
de faire les choses en solo mais ne jamais les expérimenter doit nous ouvrir
les yeux sur nos évitements (…).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ce programme
s’adresse à toutes les personnes qui se sentent anxieuses ou déprimées dès
qu’elles sont seules.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour vous
encourager, notez ce que vous appliquez dans un «&nbsp;Journal de bord&nbsp;».
Notez les dates et les durées pour les activités pour vérifier les progrès.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Programme
d’entrainement</strong></h2>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Revoir la décoration de son intérieur</strong></h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’impression
d’être trop seul n’est pas relative à une situation extérieure mais au
sentiment de vide intérieur.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Or, s’il existe
un symbole typique de son état intérieur, c’est bien ce qu’on vit dans son
«&nbsp;intérieur&nbsp;», c’est à dire chez soi. Question qu’on peut
poser&nbsp;: Quand j’entre chez moi, est-ce que la décoration me rend joyeux ou
apaisé&nbsp;? Est-ce que j’ai plaisir à regarder ce que j’ai sous les
yeux&nbsp;?</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour apprivoiser
la solitude il faut commencer par être bien chez soi. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’auteur propose
de se séparer des vieilleries qui manquent de beauté mais qu’on garde par
habitude. Par ailleurs, elle propose d’étaler les dépenses pour par exemple des
meubles plus beaux dans le temps. Et d’acheter d’occasion. On ne manque pas de
sites / groupes facebook pour trouver des ventes de greniers etc. marchés aux
puces. Apprendre à bricoler et à «&nbsp;up-cycler&nbsp;» peut en soi être une
activité manuelle qui apaise vos anxiétés (ce sont ce qu’on appelle des
«&nbsp;expressive creative strategies for managing anxiety&nbsp;»).</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.03-1024x481.png" alt="" class="wp-image-740" width="275" height="129" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.03-1024x481.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.03-300x141.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.03-768x361.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.03.png 1102w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Si vous n’êtes
pas très sûr de votre goût, vous pouvez trouver inspiration dans des magazines
/ sites de décoration intérieure ou vous faire conseiller par vos ami(e)s. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Se sentir bien chez soi est tellement important que beaucoup de patients le décident spontanément. C’est le signe qu’ils vont mieux. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mais l’inverse
est vrai aussi&nbsp;: adopter un nouveau comportement génère de nouveaux
sentiments. Ainsi changer l’aspect de son environnement pour le rendre joli,
harmonieux et chaleureux donne une nouvelle énergie.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>S’occuper
seul chez soi</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Le sentiment de
solitude nous fait tourner en rond, regarder la télévision sans véritable
intérêt (juste pour briser le silence) ou nous atteler à des tâches ménagères
systématiques. Si on a un animal de compagnie, on lui donne une importance
démesurée pour ne pas s’occuper un peu plus de soi.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Commençons par
s’aménager un nouveau programme pour toujours inclure des activités pour soi
seul. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Les besoins personnels et les objets de plaisir de chacun ne sont pas identiques. Ils le sont d’autant moins qu’on est un homme ou une femme. Les exemples ci-dessous sont donc à adapter selon votre propre plaisir et vos intérêts. <strong>Voici de nouvelles possibilités d’occupation à faire seul&nbsp;:</strong></p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.12-1024x616.png" alt="" class="wp-image-739" width="240" height="144" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.12-1024x616.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.12-300x181.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.12-768x462.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.12.png 1436w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></figure></div>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>S’isoler (si on est en couple /en famille) et écrire</li><li>S’isoler et composer ou créer</li><li>Débrancher le téléphone et faire une relaxation ou une méditation pendant 20-30min</li><li>Prendre un bon bain moussant ou avec des sels</li><li>Prendre soin de son corps&nbsp;: traitement des cheveux, de la peau, des mains, des ongles, des pieds, épilation</li><li>Lire un livre / une magazine intéressante </li><li>Jouer d’un instrument de musique</li><li>Trier ses photos</li><li>Découvrir d’autres possibilités d’un logiciel d’ordinateur</li><li>Recoller ou réparer des objets cassés</li><li>Changer ses meubles ou ses bibelots de place</li><li>Classer ses livres</li><li>Ranger ses affaires d’été ou d’hiver</li><li>Se débarrasser de vieilleries (vêtements à donner ou a jeter, objets inutiles et encombrants)</li><li>Faire un tour dans sa cave et trier (en plusieurs fois selon l’encombrement)</li><li>Se faire bronzer dans son jardin en été</li><li>S’acheter régulièrement des fleurs</li><li>S’occuper de ses plantes</li><li>Autres</li></ul>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Aller seul au café (dès que cela sera à nouveau
possible bien sûr)</strong></h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A une certaine
époque il était mal vu qu’une femme «&nbsp;traine&nbsp;» seule au café. Ce
temps est révolu. Non seulement il n’est pas question de «&nbsp;trainer&nbsp;»
dans un café où on n’a rien à faire, mais l’intention ici n’est pas d’aller se
faire draguer et de rechercher de la compagnie. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’objectif de
cette démarche est de s’habituer à penser à s’asseoir seul au café en attendant
l’heure d’un rdv, un départ de train ou de ou de bus ou tout simplement pour y
lire à la terrasse sous le soleil.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Le programme d’entraînement
demande à ce que vous alliez au café sans autre but que d’y rester seul.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Au moins un quart
d’heure la première fois. La durée de l’exposition doit augmenter au fur et à
mesure 30min – 45 min – 60min.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Le seul critère pour évaluer la durée nécessaire utile est la diminution claire de notre anxiété. Il ne faut pas partir du café en pic d’anxiété. Nous ne partons que quand nous nous sentons finalement mieux qu’en arrivant (si angoisse à l’idée d’aller seul au café). Deux indications utiles : ne pas prendre d’alcool, car l’alcool est anxiolytique, et changer de café chaque fois pour éviter l’habitude. </p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.19.53-1024x784.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1970" width="272" height="208" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.19.53-1024x784.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.19.53-300x230.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.19.53-768x588.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-21.19.53.png 1346w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Eviter les
évitements subtils&nbsp;: L’évitement subtil nous donne l’illusion que nous
sommes capables de soutenir émotionnellement la situation alors que nous nous
sommes débrouillés subtilement pour en atténuer l’intensité émotionnelle. Par
exemple, s’attabler dans un café ou un restaurant et s’installer volontairement
dos à la salle et face au mur afin de ne pas croiser les regards des autres
personnes. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nous mettre
directement en contact avec la situation anxiogène comporte des règles précises
pour réussir. Le faire, le répéter et laisser passer une durée suffisante pour
que l’anxiété diminue d’elle-même, et ce à chaque répétition. Autre postulation
important&nbsp;: jamais une exposition in vivo ne vous sera proposée par un
thérapeute en dehors de ces règles et si la situation est dangereuse, inutile
ou ridicule.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Sortir en solo</strong></h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Au cours du mois,
réalisez au moins une fois chaque sortie suivante&nbsp;:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Une séance de cinéma seul (si vous êtes en couple choisissez un film que votre partenaire ne souhaite pas voir)</li><li>Un concert, un spectacle ou une pièce de théâtre (qui n’intéresse pas votre conjoint)</li><li>Une exposition, une galerie ou un musée</li><li>Une promenade à pied, à vélo, en barque ou en ce que vous voulez</li><li>Du spot (même de la marche rapide)</li><li>Des achats de vêtements, de chaussures ou d’objets décoratifs pour la maison</li></ul>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Voyages en solo</strong></h4>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.40.png" alt="" class="wp-image-738" width="193" height="233" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.40.png 428w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.06.40-249x300.png 249w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L’auteure parle d’une
jeune femme de 33 ans qui lui disait ‘oui j’aimerais visiter ce pays, mais ce
sera pour plus tard, car j’e suis seule…’. Beaucoup de célibataires et de
partenaires en couple rechignent à partir une semaine, 15 jours ou un mois en
voyage seuls. Vous ne savez pas ce que vous perdez&nbsp;! Cette expérience est
extraordinaire. Malgré cela, Nazare-Aga ne vous recommande pas de commencer à
voyager seul si vous n’avez pas encore perdu un peu de votre anxiété à
fréquenter les cafés, les restaurants et à sortir sans compagnie. Cependant,
certaines personnes anxieuses sociales timides ou phobiques sociales disent se
sentir capables de tenter l’aventure à l’étranger avant de s’exercer «&nbsp;à
domicile&nbsp;». Elles expliquent cela&nbsp;
par deux observations&nbsp;: d’une part elles se sentent rassurées à l’idée
de ne rencontrer&nbsp; aucune personne connue
qui pourrait se poser des questions à leur sujet&nbsp;; et, d’autre part, elles
prévoient dès le départ ne pas donner suite aux rencontres. A bien y regarder
ces cas constituent des formes d’évitement malgré les apparences de courage.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Contrairement à
ce qu’on imagine quand on n’a jamais pris de vacances en solo, on rencontre une
foule de gens sur notre chemin avec qui échanger. Dix fois plus que quand on
voyage à deux. Tout d’abord parce que ceux qui voyagent solo n’ont pas peur des
autres. Ils ont l’habitude (ou la prennent) de faire appel aux autres pour
obtenir de bons tuyaux. Ils aiment recueillir les impressions d’autrui quant à
tel site, telle route, tel hébergement, tel restaurant. Avides de découvertes,
ils n’ont pas pour but de trouver l’âme sœur en voyagent. En revanche, discuter
avec des inconnus, manger avec eux ou partager un taxi, une visite ou une
partie de pêche est au coeur de leur plaisir. Paradoxalement, l’intérêt de
voyager seul est de s’ouvrir aux autres et de se joindre à eux. Justement parce
qu’on ne les connaît pas encore et qu’ils vont contribuer à nous enrichir par
leurs propres expériences.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour avoir
parcouru une partie du monde depuis plus de 20 ans, seule ou accompagnée d’un
conjoint ou d’amis, je peux vous rassurer sur une chose&nbsp;: on ne connaît
pas la solitude en voyage solo. Et si c’est le cas, nous l’avons voulu ainsi.
Personnellement, je ressens davantage de plaisir à bouger en solo, car j’expérimente
une grande liberté et la sérénité due à des réflexions intérieures que cette
dimension espace-temps m’offre.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Je me permets de
vous rappeler qu’il n’est pas judicieux de partir seul, qui plus est à l’étranger,
si vous craignez encore trop le contact humain. Cela sera un obstacle au bon
déroulement de votre séjour et cela risque d’augmenter votre sentiment de
solitude. Mais dès que vous vous sentez libre d’anxiété, n’hésitez pas à vous
engager, encourage Nazare Aga.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Commencez par un
weekend puis trois jours, puis cinq puis une semaine au moins. Pour les séjours
en pays de langue étrangère, partez avec un minimum de connaissances en
anglais. Utilisez aussi un journal de bord daté pour y exprimer vos impressions
et y noter vos actions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">S’il est ici
recommandé de pouvoir se supporter tout seul à travers des activités en solo,
cela ne veut pas dire qu’il faille toujours les faire seul, entendons-nous
bien. Le programme d’entraînement à bien vivre la solitude veut cependant que l’on
se réserve des moments volontaires en solo et qu’on refuse justement la
compagnie systématique. Une fois le programme terminé (ce qui peut prendre un
an), nous ne connaitrez plus d’anxiété et vous vivrez ces situations avec le
plus grand naturel et les rechercherez même. Et ce pour la vie. </p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.43-1024x764.png" alt="" class="wp-image-742" width="263" height="196" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.43-1024x764.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.43-300x224.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.43-768x573.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-22.05.43.png 1080w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px" /></figure></div>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La solitude n’est pas notre ennemie. A bien y réfléchir, ce qui nous crée le plus d’anxiété et nous vide de notre énergie, c’est de tenter chaque fois de la rejeter. <strong>Apprivoiser la solitude, c’est ne plus ressentir la souffrance mais une fabuleuse impression de pouvoir. </strong></p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Conclusion</strong></h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Deux choses
peuvent empêcher notre évolution. Le manque de conscience et le manque de
responsabilité. Comprendre ce qui détermine nos actions, nos intentions et nos
buts, ainsi que nos valeurs, n’est possible grâce à notre conscience. Avoir un
haut niveau de conscience permet de faire un discernement entre notre monde
intérieur (nos pensées, nos besoins, nos opinions, nos émotions) et le monde
extérieur tel qu’il est. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">En adoptant ce
haut degré de conscience nous refusons de fermer les yeux sur des aspects de nous-même
et de la réalité. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">De nombreuses
approches, en dehors de la thérapie, peuvent y contribuer (mindfulness,
relaxation, l’art etc.).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vivre de façon
consciente rejoint un autre concept fondamental&nbsp;: être responsable de soi.
C’est une composante essentielle de la confiance en soi tout comme elle en est la
manifestation. Quel que soit notre vécu antérieur, l’adulte qui devient
conscient, qui analyse et qui agit à propos est entièrement responsable de ses
choix. Nous ne devons plus attendre qu’un tiers respecte nos besoins si nous n’en
prenons pas la charge nous-mêmes. Il en est de même pour nos actes, pour nos comportements,
à l’égard de ceux qui nous environnent, pour nos valeurs profondes, pour le
soin que nous nous apportons et le renforcement de notre estime personnelle. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Extrait de «&nbsp;Approcher les autres, est-ce si difficile&nbsp;?&nbsp;» (modifié) d&rsquo;Isabelle Nazare-Aga 2004</p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/faire-de-la-solitude-notre-amie/">Faire de la solitude notre amie</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Certains schémas cognitifs peuvent rendre l’affirmation de soi complexe pour une personne, par exemple les schémas «&#160;abnégation&#160;», «&#160;assujettissement&#160;»,«&#160;recherche d’approbation&#160;», «&#160;carence</p>
<p>L’article <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com/affirmation-de-soi/">Affirmation de soi</a> est apparu en premier sur <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reginakoehler.com">Regina Koehler</a>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Certains schémas cognitifs peuvent rendre l’affirmation de soi complexe pour une personne, par exemple les schémas «&nbsp;abnégation&nbsp;», «&nbsp;assujettissement&nbsp;»,«&nbsp;recherche d’approbation&nbsp;», «&nbsp;carence affective&nbsp;», raison pour laquelle il est important de réfléchir à cette question si on a ces schémas. Comme je vois beaucoup de patients qui ont ces schémas, je fais le choix d’axer cet article sur des idées pouvant intéresser ce type de personne en particulier.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Apprendre l’affirmation de soi quand on a l’habitude d’être plutôt soumis et passif dans ses relations, depuis souvent des décennies, voir toute sa vie, n’est pas évident et peut être un des objectifs du travail thérapeutique: vous n’êtes donc pas obligé de traverser cela seul. Les jeux de rôle avec le thérapeute, entre autre, sont un bon moyen d’acquérir un niveau solide d’assertivité. </p>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="469" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.50.06-1024x469.png" alt="" class="wp-image-718" style="width:306px;height:139px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.50.06-1024x469.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.50.06-300x137.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.50.06-768x352.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.50.06.png 1376w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>L’affirmation de soi est vécu comme un champ de mines par de nombreuses personnes mais c’est aussi un outil très important pour gagner en confiance en soi et pour améliorer son estime de soi</strong>.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Alors que de nombreux patients craignent la rupture du lien (à l&rsquo;autre) s’ils s’affirment, elle permet au contraire de rééquilibrer vos relations et donc de les améliorer dans la durée</strong>. <strong>Le coût de la passivité est tellement élevé que c’est un axe de développement fondamental.</strong> </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ces schémas (ci-dessus) vous conduisent aussi à avoir des émotions négatives</strong>, comme la peur (de perdre l’autre) ou la culpabilité («&nbsp;je suis une mauvaise personne si je demande/dis cela&nbsp;») si vous vous affirmez. Et ce même si votre demande est légitime et faite de façon appropriée, respectueuse&nbsp;: les schémas essayent de nous «&nbsp;maintenir en place&nbsp;».</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A l’inverse, le <strong>schéma «&nbsp;dominance / grandeur&nbsp;» conduit la personne en général à être trop affirmée (dans le sens trop agressif ou manipulateur).</strong> Souvent «&nbsp;la chimie des schémas&nbsp;» fait que les personnes ayant les premiers types de schémas se retrouvent en couple avec une personne avec ce schéma. Cette <strong>polarité</strong> <strong>dans un couple</strong> (l’un trop passif, l’autre trop agressif) <strong>se creuse encore au fil des années</strong>&nbsp;: la passivité de l’un fait ressortir encore le côté agressif de l’autre. Pour éviter cette dégradation progressive, qui mène souvent à la rupture, il est d’autant plus important de s’affirmer. Sinon le couple ne sera pas stable dans le temps. On recommence le même type de relation avec un autre personne, pour répéter tout le cycle. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="744" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-11.38.19-1024x744.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2787" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-11.38.19-1024x744.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-11.38.19-300x218.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-11.38.19-768x558.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-30-at-11.38.19.png 1456w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Que faire si vous n’avancez pas avec la communication non violente, parce que la personne en face de vous, elle, n’accepte pas de communiquer de façon non violente (et mentir, manipuler et couper la parole n’en sont que quelques exemples de ce refus), cf. « les deuils nécessiares » ci-dessous</strong>. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ou que, en parlant de vos émotions, vous ne faites que livrer des informations à un adversaire qui pourra s’en servir contre vous&nbsp;? Bref, si vous avez l’impression qu’adopter les principes de la communication non violente ne vous sert pas (parfois, souvent, systématiquement: faites une recherche google sur «critic of non violent communication» ou «weaknesses of non violent communication») il faut chercher d’autres solutions. Sur le site web realsocialskills.org on lit&nbsp;: «nonviolent communication can be emotionally violent».</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Update 2024, deux ouvrages intéressants sur l&rsquo;affirmation de soi et la communication non-violente</strong>: </p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/0d1FiIKM" target="_blank">Tome 2: Emotions enquête et mode d&#8217;emploi</a> d&rsquo;Art Mella </li>



<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.eu/d/02REpiVu" target="_blank">Cessez d&rsquo;être gentil, soyez vrai! (edition illustree): Être avec les autres en restant soi-même</a> de Thomas d&rsquo;Ansembourg</li>
</ul>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Isabelle Nazar-Aga dit que beaucoup de personnes n’ont pas de problème d’affirmation de soi.. sauf avec des personnes qui, eux, sont trop affirmées</strong>. Cela donne à réfléchir quant aux meilleures approches à adopter. </p>


<div class="wp-block-image">
<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="945" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winston-1024x945.png" alt="" class="wp-image-693" style="width:197px;height:182px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winston-1024x945.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winston-300x277.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winston-768x709.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/winston.png 1448w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Winston Churchill</figcaption></figure>
</div>


<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Il est important
de comprendre les intentions de la personne en face&nbsp;: Il peut être
simplement fatigué et maladroit dans sa façon de s’exprimer, dans ce cas, notre
réaction ne va pas être la même qu’avec la personne qui n’est pas capable d’envisager
que les relations humaines peuvent se faire d’égal à égal, et qui cherchent
donc à avoir le dernier mot / le dessus coûte que coûte.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour eux, il faut dominer, écraser les autres pour ne pas être dominé. Nous vivons dans une société où le fait d’avoir le dernier mot devient un enjeu identitaire&nbsp;et est symptôme d’un égo fragile. <strong>En conséquence il faut savoir choisir ses combats. Les rapports de force stériles en série vous font juste passer à côté de votre vie, vous avez mieux à faire, s’il n’y a pas de réel enjeu.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La Communication Non Violente contient un grand nombre d’idées intéressantes (malgré le côté idéologique), ils sont facilement accessibles sur internet, raison pour laquelle je ne les reprends pas ici, pour consacrer l’espace à autre chose.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Quelques idées</strong></h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Les deuils nécessaires</strong></h3>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Le deuil d&rsquo;une communication</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ça peut vous
paraître radical, mais en réalité, vous n&rsquo;avez pas le choix. « Il ne sert à
rien d&rsquo;exprimer le fond de sa pensée, ses émotions, et ses besoins à quelqu&rsquo;un
qui s&rsquo;en fiche » prévient Christel Petitcollin. Les techniques de
communication ou de gestion des conflits se révèlent inefficaces avec les
manipulateurs. Renoncer à communiquer est difficile mais indispensable.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Le deuil d&rsquo;être compris</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L&rsquo;attente d&rsquo;être
compris est un piège destructeur. Les manipulateurs refusent catégoriquement
d&rsquo;admettre leurs torts. « Ils sont persuadés que tous les problèmes
viennent des autres puisque eux sont parfaits » précise la thérapeute
comportementaliste Isabelle Nazare-Aga. C&rsquo;est souvent le cas des parents
manipulateurs aux comportements culpabilisants avec leurs enfants devenus
adultes. Ou de maris qui préfèrent vous faire porter le chapeau de femmes
compliquées ou dépressives.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Prendre le risque de décevoir</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Beaucoup de
« manipulés » rencontrent des difficultés à rompre un lien relationnel
et cherchent à tout prix à rester en bons termes. « Le manipulateur joue
sur leur désir de perfection, y compris dans la rupture » insiste Sarah
Serievic. Il va vous faire part de sa déception&#8230; Un stratagème de plus pour
vous maintenir sous sa coupe. Au mieux vous pouvez espérer « le
cadrer » dans un premier temps, pour qu&rsquo;il vous fiche la paix.</p>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="898" height="1024" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Warren-B-you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-898x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-714" style="width:259px;height:295px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Warren-B-you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-898x1024.png 898w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Warren-B-you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-263x300.png 263w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Warren-B-you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-768x876.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Warren-B-you-will-continue-to-suffer-if.png 1122w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Warren Buffet</figcaption></figure>
</div>


<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Retrouver le contact avec soi</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">« Ne confondez pas égoïsme et respect de soi ». Vous avez peut-être tendance à répondre en priorité aux besoins des autres. Se préoccuper de votre plaisir doit être votre nouvel objectif. Qu&rsquo;est-ce qui vous rend vivant, joyeux, dynamique ? Que ce soit chanter, danser, marcher dans la nature, nager&#8230; Explorez, sans précipitation, mais seul pour commencer. Cesser de vouloir plaire à l&rsquo;autre&#8230; Ce qui va vous demander de dépasser votre peur de la solitude, bien sûr.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>S&rsquo;affirmer face à la manipulation</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">L&rsquo;affirmation de
soi et une bonne estime de soi sont les éléments clés de la reconstruction.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Devenir moins émotif et plus rationnel</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Quand votre mari
a du retard, avez-vous l&rsquo;habitude d&rsquo;imaginer le pire ? « Si oui, vous avez
peut-être tendance à anticiper de façon irrationnelle et à adopter un
comportement inadapté » développe Isabelle Nazare-Aga, dans ces ateliers
d&rsquo;affirmation de soi. Vos émotions vous jouent des tours ? Quand vos pensées
prennent un tour fréquemment anxiogène, vous devenez plus facilement
manipulable. Une personne affirmée calmera son anxiété en appelant son mari, et
en profitera pour prendre ce temps pour elle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Oser refuser</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Posez-vous la question : qu&rsquo;est ce qui vous empêche de refuser alors que vous souhaitez le faire ? La peur bien souvent est à l&rsquo;origine de ce comportement. Peur de blesser, d&rsquo;être jugé, ou plus couramment de ne pas être aimé. Bien sûr, le manipulateur n&rsquo;apprécie pas que vous refusiez sa requête. Vous allez devoir faire preuve d&rsquo;une détermination non agressive. L&rsquo;important est de choisir en fonction d&rsquo;un bénéfice pour vous dans une situation, au lieu de céder par culpabilité. Tout un apprentissage. (source: sourire-et-souvrir.com)</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>La «&nbsp;ultra-assertivité&nbsp;»</strong></h2>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="377" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.47.55-1024x377.png" alt="" class="wp-image-717" style="width:255px;height:94px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.47.55-1024x377.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.47.55-300x111.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.47.55-768x283.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-03-at-15.47.55.png 1352w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Because often</em>,<em> people do what you let them do</em></figcaption></figure>
</div>


<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La plupart des gens
apprennent à modifier leur façon de s’affirmer en fonction des attentes de la
société/ du groupe dans lequel ils se trouvent. Mais souvent, ces règles sont désuets,
transmises de génération en génération sans que l&rsquo;on se soucie vraiment de leur
impact sur la réussite dans le monde d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Par ailleurs, nous craignons que les autres nous jugent si nous disons ce que nous pensons. <strong>Le jugement « elle/il est trop affirmé(e) / autoritaire » est souvent porté sur les femmes et les personnes subordonnés. Des accusations comme « tu es égoïste », « tu es agressif(ve) » et « insensible » peuvent être faits lorsque nous exprimons nos opinions et tentons de nous affirmer. Ces accusations doivent vous mettre la puce à l’oreille&nbsp;: quelqu’un cherche peut-être à vous maintenir en place et à vous faire taire.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">La peur du
jugement nous empêche d&rsquo;être ouverts et honnêtes. Le psychologue clinicien et
coach Lloyd Thomas dit que lorsque nous sommes freinés dans notre expression,
« nous restons dépendants et impuissants dans notre façon de prendre soin
de nous, de nos besoins. Cela peut même nous rendre malade (dépression, anxiété,
burnout etc.) ».</p>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="912" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/difference-assertive-agressive-1024x912.png" alt="" class="wp-image-716" style="width:287px;height:255px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/difference-assertive-agressive-1024x912.png 1024w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/difference-assertive-agressive-300x267.png 300w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/difference-assertive-agressive-768x684.png 768w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/difference-assertive-agressive.png 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure>
</div>


<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Être agressif est
différent d&rsquo;être assertif. L&rsquo;agressivité se caractérise par un ton punitif, c’est
le cas lorsque vos demandes ou vos opinions ont pour but d’accuser les autres. Le
but de la personne agressive est en général de dominer l’autre d’une façon ou d’une
autre (pouvoir, savoir etc.) et de faire en sorte que les autres restent à leur
place. On peut être assertif sans être agressif.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Indiquez brièvement ce que vous voulez et soyez prêt à répéter votre demande lorsque vous entendez des excuses.</li>



<li>Répétez votre compréhension du point de vue de l&rsquo;autre.</li>



<li>Proposez des solutions aux problèmes.</li>



<li>Évitez de croire que vos idées ou vos sentiments sont plus importants que les leurs.</li>



<li>Ne vous laissez pas décourager s&rsquo;ils critiquent votre tentative de vous affirmer. Vous exercez votre droit de s’exprimer librement. Même si la personne refuse, vous pouvez partir en vous disant que vous vous êtes défendu. </li>
</ul>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(Extrait abrégé de «&nbsp;How to be effectively assertive&nbsp;»
sur psychologytoday.com)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Parfois la «&nbsp;ultra-assertivité&nbsp;»
peut être nécessaire, lorsque vos limites ne sont pas respectées.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mais<strong> dans la plupart des situations les conseils suivants peuvent être suffisants et très efficaces&nbsp;:</strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">La méthode « DESC »</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>&nbsp;<strong>« D » pour Décrire les faits&nbsp;</strong></li>



<li>&nbsp;<strong>« E » pour Exprimer ses&nbsp;Émotions&nbsp;</strong></li>



<li>&nbsp;<strong>« S » pour Spécifier des Solutions&nbsp;</strong></li>



<li>&nbsp;<strong>« C » pour Conclure avec les Conséquences</strong></li>
</ul>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Un bon recap ici <a href="http://www.pilotis.fr/actualite/methode-desc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Méthode DESC</a> et <a href="https://www.manager-go.com/management/dossiers-methodes/methode-desc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ici</a> </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>L’incitation à l’empathie</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Il existe un type
d&rsquo;affirmation de soi qui peut aider les gens à affronter et à apaiser le
narcissisme dans leur vie. Cette technique efficace est décrite dans le livre
du psychologue clinicien Craig Malkin, «&nbsp;Rethinking Narcissism&nbsp;»,
dans une section consacrée à l&rsquo;aide aux narcissiques. (Oui, certains
narcissiques peuvent changer !). Elle peut être utile pour interagir avec toute
personne dans votre vie qui est sensible à la critique.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Voici le processus en trois étapes : </strong></h4>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">1 C&rsquo;est l&rsquo;étape clé. <strong>Soulignez l&rsquo;importance de votre relation</strong>. Exemples tirés du livre: « Je pense que tu sais que tu es tout pour moi » ; « Tu es mon meilleur ami » ; « Tu es l&rsquo;une des personnes les plus importantes dans ma vie ». Le fait de commencer par une telle déclaration positive rassure le narcissique sur le fait qu&rsquo;il est aimé et limite le risque de réaction défensive.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">2 Utilisez la « <strong>méthode ABCD » pour décrire votre Affect</strong> (émotions) en «I statements», phrases qui <strong>commencent par «&nbsp;je&nbsp;</strong>», le <strong>Comportement</strong> qui vous dérange et les Conséquences de ce comportement : « Quand tu ne me salues pas chaleureusement quand je rentre du travail (<strong>B pour behaviour</strong>), je me sens triste (A), comme si je ne comptais pas dans notre relation (<strong>C pour conséquence</strong>) ».</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">3 <strong>Décrivez ce que vous voulez</strong> : « <strong>J&rsquo;aimerais que tu sois</strong> plus affectueux quand tu rentres ou peut-être que tu me poses simplement des questions sur ma journée (<strong>D: décrire</strong>). »</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cette approche pousse l&rsquo;autre personne à voir le problème non pas comme un conflit qui vous oppose, mais comme un travail sur le «&nbsp;<em>Nous</em>&nbsp;», le couple, qui va vous aider à améliorer la relation. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dire à un proche, narcissique ou non, à quel point il compte pour vous peut transformer votre relation. Imaginez ce que vous ressentiriez si votre partenaire commençait une discussion en disant: « Tu es tout pour moi »(plus d’infos et d’autres approches dans l’article “4 ways to be assertive without alienating others »).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cette méthode a des similitudes avec la communication non violente tout en étant plus simple et directe à mon sens, elle valorise aussi le lien avec l’autre personne.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><span class="has-inline-color has-primary-color">Faites défiler vers le bas (en dessous de la partie sitographie) pour lire un bel exemple d&rsquo;affirmation de soi.</span></strong></p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong> Les aspects non-verbaux</strong> de l&rsquo;assertivité</h4>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="736" height="512" src="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/posture.png" alt="" class="wp-image-708" style="width:219px;height:152px" srcset="https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/posture.png 736w, https://www.reginakoehler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/posture-300x209.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px" /></figure>
</div>


<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ils sont tout aussi importants. Cf. cette video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kudo7aIpFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Be assertive</a> (sur youtube)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Autre source pour gérer les personnes narcissiques : Le livre “L’adulte tyran” de Didier Pleux</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pour les germanophones: « Männlicher Narzissmus » von Dr. Raphael Bonelli</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sitographie</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="http://www.sourire-et-souvrir.com/blog/s-ouvrir/manipulation-oser-refuser.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.sourire-et-souvrir.com/blog/s-ouvrir/manipulation-oser-refuser.html</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.realsocialskills.org/blog/nonviolent-communication-can-be-emotionally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.realsocialskills.org/blog/nonviolent-communication-can-be-emotionally</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“NVC also gives the
oppressor tools to appear more loving and kind towards someone else, thus
granting an oppressor the ability to maintain power over a more victimized
party.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201803/4-ways-be-assertive-without-alienating-others" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201803/4-ways-be-assertive-without-alienating-others</a></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/wander-woman/201912/how-be-effectively-assertive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/wander-woman/201912/how-be-effectively-assertive</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201907/how-be-ultra-assertive-when-your-boundaries-are-attacked" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201907/how-be-ultra-assertive-when-your-boundaries-are-attacked</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201803/4-ways-be-assertive-without-alienating-others" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201803/4-ways-be-assertive-without-alienating-others</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201209/the-assertiveness-habit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201209/the-assertiveness-habit</a></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">DESC:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.manager-go.com/management/dossiers-methodes/methode-desc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.manager-go.com/management/dossiers-methodes/methode-desc</a></p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Atlantic<br>DEAR THERAPIST<br><strong>Dear Therapist: My Daughter’s Family Asks So Much of Us Without Giving Anything in Return</strong><br>Any time I want to talk with my daughter about an issue between us, she tells me she doesn’t have time and it’s not a priority for her.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">By Lori Gottlieb</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">OCTOBER 12, 2020<br>Editor&rsquo;s Note: Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:dear.therapist@theatlantic.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dear.therapist@theatlantic.com</a>.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dear Therapist,</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Six years ago, my retired husband and I moved to be close to our grandkids, and three years ago, our daughter’s family and ours bought houses with adjoining backyards. My husband was the “manny” four days a week until each child was old enough to go to preschool a couple of days a week.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That changed with the pandemic. My daughter already worked remotely, and my son-in-law moved to a remote position because he has a health issue that makes him higher-risk. The kindergartner and 3-year-old were now home and my husband was taking care of both of them five days a week instead of only one child all day twice a week and both kids after school four days a week.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My husband never asks our daughter or son-in-law to pick up the kids by a certain time. The one thing he asked over the summer was that they have the kids at our house by 7:45 a.m. so he could take them out for a walk or a bike ride before it got too hot. Almost every morning, he had to call my son-in-law and ask what the kids’ status was, despite repeatedly stating this wish. He also mentioned it to our daughter, but there was still no consistency in getting them here on time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Additionally, my husband always asks our daughter and son-in-law what they &nbsp;need from the store. They almost always ask for things. My son-in-law, on the other hand, rarely asks if we need anything when he places a grocery order, even though we’d be happy to pay for our share. Although my husband routinely includes them in meal preparation, my son-in-law will sporadically decide to make a meal for his family without notifying my husband first—after my husband has started working on something else—and often doesn’t invite us to join them (and when he does, he makes so little food, we feel like we’re imposing).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Our daughter gets very defensive of her husband, and we have virtually no relationship with him directly because he only stays in the room with us if she’s there or if he’s doing something directly for the kids. If the three of us are talking, he checks out of the conversation and gets on his phone. As a result, I find it very awkward to talk to him at all, much less about something this loaded. But I am really starting to resent feeling like our son-in-law is showing no respect for my husband. I am more bothered by this than my husband is.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Any time I want to talk with my daughter about an issue between us, she tells me she doesn’t have time and it’s not a priority for her. If I try to guess what she’s thinking, she gets upset with me for overthinking it. So I can’t imagine that trying to talk with &nbsp;her about this issue regarding our son-in-law would go any better.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Anonymous</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dear Anonymous,</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I can understand why you feel frustrated with the way things are going in the current child-care situation and with your unsuccessful attempts to make things better so far. But you might be feeling stuck not because there’s no solution, but because of the way you’re thinking about the problem.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You say this is an issue with your husband and your son-in-law, but as you describe it, the issue involves the entire family. Each of you, in your own ways and to various degrees, seems to feel resentful. You feel resentful that your husband isn’t appreciated for taking care of the grandkids. Your husband shares some of this resentment. Your son-in-law resents the requests you make of him. Your daughter resents that you resent her husband.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What’s not clear here is why there’s so much resentment among you given that it seems to have been a mutual decision to buy houses with adjacent yards in order to be close to each other and facilitate the child-care arrangement. What is clear is that you don’t have an open line of communication, so when issues arise, instead of getting aired and resolved, they go underground and rot.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Often people I see in therapy will say, “I can’t talk to so-and-so because it hasn’t worked in the past.” But what they don’t realize is that a conversation is indeed taking place—indirectly and not very productively—through people’s actions.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Your husband, for example, despite putting a lot of time and effort into caring for the grandchildren, has made just one request of their parents—to bring the kids over early enough to get them outside. And when that request wasn’t honored, he doesn’t seem to have done much about it. No matter how inconsiderate your son-in-law is—whether it’s about respecting schedules, communication and generosity around sharing meals, or being polite while in the same room together—your husband has acted with a passivity that says, I don’t like what you’re doing, but I’m afraid of what might happen if I stand up for myself.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>For your part, although it sounds as if you’ve tried to broach other issues with your daughter, your behavior also communicates something to her and your son-in-law: If you ignore me, I won’t hold you accountable.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Not coincidentally, what your daughter and son-in-law’s behavior communicates is that they don’t want to be held accountable—at least when it comes to honoring your or your husband’s feelings. People generally avoid talking about something that they don’t want to change, and their behavior supports this theory.</strong>&nbsp;Your son-in-law doesn’t respond to your husband’s requests (he just continues doing what he wants), and your daughter deflects the conversation with you entirely (no time, not a priority, you overthink things).</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The thing about resentment is that it’s essentially a sense of unfairness—that someone is putting out more than they’re getting back. When people feel resentful, there’s an accounting going on—you’re asking too much of me; I’m not getting enough back from you—and the equation needs to be balanced. You can do this in one of two ways: increase what you’re getting, or decrease what you’re giving.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>To increase what you’re getting, you and your husband are going to have to be more direct about your needs—and that should start with a conversation among all the adults.</strong>&nbsp;You might say something like “Hey, we really love seeing the kids and helping out, but we know there’s been some tension, and we’d like to get together and work things through.” Then offer three specific dates and times after the kids have gone to sleep. If they accept your invitation,&nbsp;<strong>you can start the meeting by saying that you’d like to have a happy relationship with them and wonder if either one of them is upset with either of you—and if so, you’d welcome hearing about it. They might give you some information that’s useful and can then be addressed.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>It could be that your daughter and son-in-law are just really struggling as a result of the pandemic—kids at home, financial stress, health concerns, no social outlets—and they might be too exhausted and overwhelmed to coordinate their days with your needs in mind. Another possibility is that your son-in-law is experiencing some financial difficulties and feels intense shame</strong>, which might explain the small meal portions as well as his difficulty expressing gratitude or even engaging in conversation with you right now. And sometimes having two sets of grandparents with very different levels of involvement in the kids’ lives (for whatever reason) can leave the spouse with the less involved parents feeling out of sorts.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At this meeting, you and your husband would also be able to talk about what has been upsetting you.&nbsp;<strong>If they claim that there’s no problem at all, you can still take the opportunity to share your experience around lack of consideration or appreciation, and enlist their help in coming up with a mutually agreeable solution.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Of course, they might not agree to have a conversation at all, or they might dismiss what you have to say. In that case, you could choose to move on to the other side of the resentment equation: instead of trying to increase what you’re getting, you could decrease what you’re giving.&nbsp;</strong>This might mean dropping the kids back at their place at a set time each day instead of wondering when they’ll be picked up; preparing meals for just the two of you; or reducing the number of days your husband takes care of the grandkids if their father can’t show gratitude (or, at the very least, civility) to the person who cares for his children.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><u>The beauty of balancing the equation is that the mere act of doing so moves you from feeling helpless to claiming agency</u></strong>. You might get more open communication and greater respect and appreciation, or you might not—but you will definitely get less resentment, because&nbsp;<strong>your side of the equation is completely under your control.</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">(..)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lori Gottlieb is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a psychotherapist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the podcast Dear Therapists.<br><a href="https://amp-theatlantic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/616676/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://amp-theatlantic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/616676/</a></p>



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