Dr. Rishel Mañas

30/10/2025

🕯️Six Needs of the Grieving 🕯️
By David Kessler

🖤 Have their pain witnessed.
Meet them where they are. They don’t
need to be fixed. Simply listen.

🖤 Express feelings.
You can’t heal if you don’t feel.
“What you hold in, hurts you. What you
release, heals you.”

🖤 Relieve themselves of the guilt.
Grief is almost accompanied by guilt. Guilt
is about control, and grief is loss of
control. Our mind would rather be guilty
than helpless.

🖤 Talk about old wounds.
Address trauma with a professional.
“Why me?” is an old would. It’s an old
friend in a new storm.

🖤 Integrate the pain and the love.
Allow people to experience pain then let
the love become bigger than the pain. Hold
the pain and the loss with LOVE.

🖤 Find meaning after the loss.
How are people changed by the loss?
Let people go through the pain. Live after
the loss and honor the loss and those who
have died by living your meaning and
purpose.

Those who grieve can’t really see the future right after the loss. So, we need to be patient in journeying with them with kindness and compassion.

is organic. It’s a universal human experience.

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30/10/2025

28/10/2025

"Nothing real can be threatened." ~ A Course in Miracles

It’s the real YOU that can never be threatened. Pain and suffering are only momentary. When you fully embrace your most authentic self, you finally live in freedom! As it is written, the truth will set you free.

And what is true about you? Within you is the divine, eternal, and invulnerable SELF that seeks expression! Regardless of what you believe or feel at this moment, this remains the unshakeable truth about YOU.
*****




📷 by Risheru
🖼️ Banaue Rice Terraces, October 2023

25/10/2025

How The Light Comes
by Jan Richardson

I cannot tell you
how the light comes.
What I know
is that it is more ancient
than imagining.
That it travels
across an astounding expanse
to reach us.
That it loves
searching out
what is hidden
what is lost
what is forgotten
or in peril
or in pain.
That it has a fondness
for the body
for finding its way
toward flesh
for tracing the edges
of form
for shining forth
through the eye,
the hand,
the heart.
I cannot tell you
how the light comes,
but that it does.
That it will.
That it works its way
into the deepest dark
that enfolds you,
though it may seem
long ages in coming
or arrive in a shape
you did not foresee.
And so
may we this day
turn ourselves toward it.
May we lift our faces
to let it find us.
May we bend our bodies
to follow the arc it makes.
May we open
and open more
and open still
to the blessed light
that comes.
*****

16/10/2025

Burnout is NEVER an indication of success. It’s proof of self-neglect. And neglect is a form of abuse.

15/10/2025

"When we attend to the broken parts of ourselves with skillful compassion, our horizons become more visible, and the beauty and strength we possess is accessible to us."
~ Kathy Hayes-Bloch

It’s time to attend to yourself.😌

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15/10/2025

“Psychotherapy is effective, helps reduce the overall need for health services and produces long-term health improvements, according to a review of research studies conducted by the American Psychological Association.”

The American Psychological Association (APA) conducted over “50 peer-reviewed studies on psychotherapy and its effectiveness in treating a spectrum of health issues and with a variety of populations, including children, members of minority groups and the elderly.

Key findings of the resolution:

✅ Research demonstrates that psychotherapy is effective for a variety of mental and behavioral health issues and across a spectrum of population groups. The average effects of psychotherapy are larger than the effects produced by many medical treatments.

✅ Large multi-site and meta-analytic studies have demonstrated that psychotherapy reduces disability, morbidity and mortality; improves work functioning; and decreases psychiatric hospitalization.

✅ Psychotherapy teaches patients life skills that last beyond the course of treatment. The results of psychotherapy tend to last longer than psychopharmacological treatments and rarely produce harmful side effects.

✅ While medication is appropriate in some instances, research shows that a combination of medication and psychotherapy is often most effective in treating depression and anxiety. It should also be noted that the effects produced by psychotherapy, including those for different age groups and across a spectrum of mental and physical health disorders, are often comparable to or better than the effects produced by drug treatments for the same disorders without the potential for harmful side effects that drugs often carry.”

Source: Research Shows Psychotherapy Is Effective But Underutilized, 2012
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2012/08/psychotherapy-effective




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14/10/2025

You’d be surprised to know that most people are not breathing properly. I used to be like that. Noticing the breath is the first step towards self-awareness.

12/10/2025

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. (Romans 12:15)

“True empathy begins where judgment ends.
We never see the full depth of another’s pain — only the ripples it leaves on the surface.
So speak softly. Act kindly.
For the storm you call shallow might be the one someone is fighting to survive in silence.“

The Depth You Don’t See 🌊:

One bright morning, a group of animals gathered by a shining lake.
Two tall giraffes stepped in first, their long necks gliding above the water, eyes calm and confident.

“Come in, friends!” they called. “It’s not deep at all!”

The bears exchanged glances. The rabbits hesitated.
And a tiny mouse stood trembling at the edge — staring at the ripples that looked like waves.

To the giraffes, the lake was calm and shallow — a gentle splash of water on their knees.
But to the mouse, it was an ocean — vast, dark, and terrifying.

The giraffes smiled kindly, unaware.
They weren’t mocking. They simply couldn’t see the lake through smaller eyes.

💧 And that’s how life works, doesn’t it?

We judge too easily.
We tell others — “It’s not that hard.” “Just move on.” “Why are you overthinking?”
But the truth is, what feels small to you might be someone else’s storm.

Your calm could be their chaos.
Your comfort could be their breaking point.

Not because they’re weak —
but because their story runs deeper than you can see.
Their heart carries weights your eyes can’t measure.

🌿 So before you say, “It’s not that bad,”
pause — and remember:
you might just be a giraffe talking to a mouse.

💡Takeaway:
True empathy begins where judgment ends.
We never see the full depth of another’s pain — only the ripples it leaves on the surface.
So speak softly. Act kindly.
For the storm you call shallow might be the one someone is fighting to survive in silence.

02/10/2025

I allow myself to be imperfect.
I allow myself to make mistakes.
I allow myself to be a learner in life.
I forgive myself.
May I be free.