Rekindling with Julie Squires:

An Autobiography in Five Chapters

"Compartmentalization is a defense mechanism in which people mentally separate conflicting thoughts, emotions, or experiences to avoid the discomfort of contradiction" according to Psychology Today.

Understanding the interconnectedness of your thoughts, feelings and behavior is the key to self-awareness and empowerment.

Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one "right" way of thinking, learning, and behaving, and differences are not viewed as deficits. (Harvard Health Publishing)

Euthanizing animals brings up a plethora of emotions including compassion, guilt and doubt. What your relationship is with the animal also tends to dictate what emotional path you may go down.

This week I'm sharing two of my favorite readings.