Carol Jean Whittington

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890 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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Today’s Autistic Moment: A Podcast for Autistic Adults by An Autistic Adult · Strength Based Self-Care in a Medical Deficit Culture · 24 Aug 2025 podcast

that uh emotional strength or that strength in in the security of yourself.

And you're belonging to yourself.

And then that resilience, you know, how are we

rebounding or recovering from stress and how are we moving to the next thing?

and that recovery and I was thinking about the intersect intersection of self care

um strength and resilience and it is

when we say

Yes to what truly aligns with us, when we say no to things that are not ours, and when we can say not now, when we just need time to process or we're not sure yet.

And I think those

those three things to not just have a yes or a no answer, but to also have that not now or not yet.

There's a lot of strength and resilience and self care that goes into

Using all three of those responses to anything that happens in our life.

Those are really fantastic.

I have something I call my sparkly file, my sparkle file, and put all of, you know, my little joy things that remind me of of what's good.

Uh one of the things that we did this summer in our self care camp was uh we had an artist come and she talked about ways that we can

Just

like visually represent just an emotion or a feeling.

And then when we're ready, you know, we can we can burn it or we can uh she even showed where she had taken a lot of her drawings and things where she was just expressing emotion in a visual or color way or a shape way and just kind of scribbles all over the paper.

put 'em in the blender and then she turned them into beautiful pieces of paper, homemade paper, and then painted on them.

And so, you know, it's sort of this transformation that we can also do in that process to

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