…I’m not surprised to see all those hands. Strangely, as much as people talk about Self care, I meet fewer people who practice it as part of a routine.ĭo you practice Self care as part of a routine, or do you only do it for damage control? Raise your hand if you said damage control… Does that sound like your Pinterest/Facebook/conversations with people too? My Pinterest and Facebook feeds are awash with discussions and articles about Self care. It seems like the rest of the internet does, too. Want more Self care tips like these? You’ll love my email newsletter This infographic describes the process at a high level. When everything becomes just too much, you need a timeout. That’s why I consider Chapter 5 the Rescue Chapter. In my book Be the One to Heal Your Self: A Workbook for People Who Want Results Now, I have an entire chapter set aside to this process! Getting to know yourself and all the different parts of you is hard work and sometimes, it can be too much. The truth is, adults need timeouts too, sometimes. It helps us come back to the situation feeling more calm and motivation to explore possibilities. A timeout gives you room to calm down and separate from your emotions. We’re never our best selves when we’re flooded with emotions. A timeout allows you to hit “pause” on the stress, worry, sadness, or anger that are flooding your system. Huge plot holes in how this revelation is revealed.We know all about timeouts for little kids, right? Timeout are good for adults too! Take a timeout to step out of your emotional overload. Why Jacana? The person who wrote that must not actually have read the book.īack to the point I would have wanted to know more about how Sizwe ended up in Johannesburg what happened to Nolitha and his parents? The character of Patrick was superficial and added nothing to the storyline, (he just made me feel sick and disgusted), and Sizwe's rushed demise to madness feels inauthentic to me, even if in hindsight, it had been coming a long time. Also, the write-up on the back of the book tells you absolutely nothing about the two protagonists, Sizwe and Thulani, but talks of Lettie and Kokoroshe, who played minor roles in the plot of the story. The ending was rather anticlimactic for me.Īnother pet peeve that kept me from giving it 3 stars were the continuous typing and grammatical errors during the second half of the book, which, coincidently was just as rushed in the writing process as it was in the editing process. That was a relatively enjoyable read with a few laughs and intriguing characters in Sizwe and Thulani, but, I am left wanting though. It’s a well written book,worth a read,quite entertaining and quirky. An example is how the Parents and the community seemingly lose interest in the protagonist to the point of not even finding out that he is in prison yet he made national news. The only slight problem with that is how much of the story he was willing to compromise in order to fit the split personality in. The author clearly researched the split personality phenomenon and it shows. Sizwe’s character is introduced to us as a drunkard in a Hillbrow shebeen along with some characters that are given a huge chunk of attention at the beginning but end up not making any contribution to the story in the end,it’s as if the author completely forgot about them somewhere along the book,he described them,built them up then just neglected them rather unceremoniously. The first two thirds of the book are simple enough and flow easily, as you draw to the end when Thulani’s body is taken over by the second then the third personality it gets very confusing, I had to go back and reread other pages in order to fully understand what was going on. A disturbingly dark and challengingly deep plunge into the mind of split personality disorders and schizophrenia.
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