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The Self Care Maven Dedicated to providing inspirational quotes, memos and tidbits of self care for any who seek a kind, calm perspective in an otherwise stormy swirling world.

I am the light, the light I am. Find and honor your Zen, everyday. Keep Going! I believe in YOU!!!

09/29/2026

You have done the research. All of it.

You know what love bombing is. You can identify the discard. You understand triangulation, gaslighting, the hoover, the smear campaign. You have watched hundreds of hours of content and you could probably teach a seminar at this point.

And you are still there. Or you left and went back. Or you left and found someone remarkably similar.

And you cannot understand why knowing all of this has not been enough to free you.

Here is what nobody tells you, dear one.

Being able to identify narcissism does not undo the conditioning that taught you to tolerate it.

The naming happens in your conscious mind. That is about 5% of what is actually running you. The tolerating happens somewhere much older and much deeper. In a nervous system that learned, long before you had words for any of it, that love comes with conditions. That people you need can also hurt you. That you stay anyway, because leaving was never an option a child had.

So you can see the pattern with total clarity and still find yourself explaining yourself to someone who has no intention of hearing you. You can know exactly what is happening and still feel your body pull toward them the moment they go cold.

That is not a failure of intelligence. That is a survival program running underneath your awareness.

I spent years believing that if I just understood it well enough, I would finally be free. Understanding was never what set me free. Changing what was running below the understanding did.

And that change does not happen through more information. It happens through daily practice that reaches the nervous system where the tolerating actually lives.

That is exactly what I built this new guided meditation and companion guide for.

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It's not you. It's your programming.

11/06/2025

10/18/2025

Today I AM grateful for epsom salts, arnica tea bags, lavender and comfrey from my garden and quartz crystals. I blended these ingredients together, placed them into a mesh bag and dropped them into my bathtub.

~ How do you take care of yourself?






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