
Be Mindful of Your Spoons
By: Jennifer Klesman, LCSW Spoon Theory, a term coined by Christine Miserandino in 2003, is the mentality that every day we only have so much energy. Miserandino had to describe what it was like to have Lupus and so she came up with the concept that every day we only have so many “spoons” of energy. She illustrated her point by laying out the spoons in a diner and described that each spoon was energy for a task throughout the day. Miserandino explained that when a person is