Life Hitting You Like a Dodgeball? This is Your Sign.
Sometimes protecting our heart means turning inward, but sometimes it means opening our chest toward the healing power of connection.
Sometimes protecting our heart means turning inward, but sometimes it means opening our chest toward the healing power of connection.
Understanding where unhappiness comes from gives us a clearer sense of what ingredients we need in our lives to make us happy.
Many people are lonely on Valentine’s Day more than they’d like to be, and the imagery of hearts, kisses, roses, boxes of candy, cards, etc., can drum up old feelings of shame and abandonment fear.
In the fight against daily despair, remembering your younger uninhibited, brave, curious, and fully alive self—and calling upon it—is paramount.
It is possible to rise, even when everything we know is being torn down. Perhaps it’s to build something new so that we might flourish.
Being human often means learning the hard way what circumstances hinder our growth and wellbeing. It takes a lot of courage to admit when we’ve come to this painful realization.
In our culture, we often think of emotions and feelings as either good (happy!) or bad (angry or sad).
I made a promise that I will no longer shush the screaming of my gut. I will not hide the truth of what I know, not from myself and not from anyone else.
Journeying to the center of the self is not an end, but a beginning of an increasing compassion and energy output toward the world. If we can slow down global warming, and yet do not come together to take action to prevent it, then we are abandoning ourselves and each other.
To achieve a goal, you probably have to borrow the time and energy from something you’re currently doing – some passive pleasure to which you’ve become habituated (addicted). What might that be?