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Feb 03, 2012, 12:56 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2008
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That link that WePow posted has a blog about this, and it struck several chords with me. Is it OK to snip just a bit? This T asks clients whether they...
…have a regular routine to pay attention to your body’s need for gross motor activity?
…are able to keep your home clean?
…have some quiet time for contemplation built into your week?
…get to bed early enough and sleep through eight hours?
…know how to choose and cook food that you enjoy and that meets your personal digestive and nutritional needs?
…have a clear sense of your income and expenses?
…see your medical/alternative care providers regularly?
…spend sufficient time in daylight?
…overuse, abuse, or addictively depend on toxic substances – even the “regular” ones?
…participate in meaningful recreational, social, educational, or community building activities?
she says >> we all know what we “should” be doing to “take care” of ourselves – but that doesn’t mean that you have the time, the structure, the wherewithal, the money, the discipline, or the motivation to do it.
and then wham, she hit me with this...
Any animal who is deprived of sleep, and/or fed inadequate nutrition, sitting in its own waste, ingesting poisons, prohibited from gross motor discharge, cut off from meaningful interaction with others of its species, experiencing unrelenting stress with no respite – all of its natural drives thwarted – is going to feel like ****. We would expect it to suffer. We anonymously call animal control on the neighbors, or feel impelled to donate money to animal rescue associations after seeing animals in such states of neglect and abuse.
powerful! thanks for this thread 
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