Help! You are probably looking for some, if you’re reading my blog. You have a choice, where you get help. If you’re in a city like Portland, Oregon where I am, it can be an overwhelming choice, with so many helpers available, advertising so many different kinds of help!
This is a long and exploratory blog post, so hang with me here, if you choose. I have some ideas I’m working on, and I’d like to share the initial concepts and reasons why I am thinking deeply on them.
We feel stress when our values conflict.
Our ‘Values,’ simply put, are any things that we care about strongly. Examples include abstract principles like “Kindness,” “Fairness,” “Justice,” and so forth, but also broad areas of interest and life experience, like “Art,” “Sports,” “Parenting,” “Adventure,” and even “Awareness.” Anything that really, really matters to you, is one of your values. Naturally, if we experience one of these things in conflict with another, we will feel stressed. Read More