Day 4: Expectations that are Too High or Too Low

Day 4: Expectations that are Too High or Too Low

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Week 1: Emotional Awareness

  • Day 1: Naming Emotions
  • Day 2: "I am vs I feel"
  • Day 3: Different Types of Feelings
  • Day 4: Feelings aren't Facts
  • Day 5: Week Review

Week 2: Accepting Emotions

  • Day 1: Accepting our Emotions
  • Day 2: Physiological Aspects of Emotion
  • Day 3: Moral Nature of Our Emotions
  • Day 4: Inviting the Lord into our Emotions
  • Day 5: Week Review

Week 3: Describing Emotions

  • Day 1: Describing our Feelings
  • Day 2: Interpreting Events
  • Day 3: Keeping it Specific
  • Day 4: Documenting the Thought
  • Day 5: Thoughts vs Beliefs

Week 4: Cognitive Distortions

  • Day 1: All-or-Nothing Thinking & Overgeneralizing
  • Day 2: Mental Filtering & Disqualifying the Positive
  • Day 3: Jumping to Conclusions & Magnification
  • Day 4: Emotional Reasoning & "Should" Statements
  • Day 5: Labeling & Personalizing

Week 5: Boundaries

  • Day 1: Mental & Emotional Boundaries
  • Day 2: Boundaries & Responsibility
  • Day 3: Limits of Physical Energy
  • Day 4: Setting Boundaries in Time and Space
  • Day 5: Communicating our Boundaries

Week 6: Expectations

  • Day 1: Expectations
  • Day 2: Expectations from Unlived Experiences
  • Day 3: Expectations from Lived Experience and Reason
  • Day 4: Expectations that are Too High or Too Low
  • Day 5: Expectations and Desires, Goals, Dreams

Week 7: Gentle Self Care

  • Day 1: Gentle Self Care
  • Day 2: Quality Sleep
  • Day 3: Nutrition and Exercise
  • Day 4: Hygiene & Personal Style
  • Day 5: Prayer as Self Care

Week 8: Growing in Virtue

  • Day 1: Intro to the Virtues
  • Day 2: Virtue as Action & Neuroplasticity
  • Day 3: Virtues and Intentions
  • Day 4: Witnesses in Virtue
  • Day 5: This is Just the Beginning