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Your Greatest Comrade in the Fight Against Daily Despair

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

In the fight against daily despair, remembering your younger uninhibited, brave, curious, and fully alive self—and calling upon it—is paramount.

Back Away From the Wall. Be More Like the Butterfly.

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

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.

The First Secret to Thriving is There are no Secrets

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

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.

The Fight in My Head

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

Next time you are “mindlessly” taking a shower, washing dishes or driving, ask yourself: What are you thinking? Are you grinding old thoughts, or contemplating your life in new rewarding productive ways?

Five Practices for Living Your Best Life

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

There are countless books and blogs that outline the path to success. Yet, the internal work required to turn success and happiness into a packaged deal is under-acknowledged.

How to Tend Your Own Wound

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

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.

The Little Known Reason Why It’s Hard To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

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?

Inspiring Ways to Manifest Love

Happiness, Relationships, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

One of the great joys of my life is collecting stories of the ways soulmates meet and come together. It’s pretty empowering to realize that even the most mystical, magical encounters required the soon-to-be lovers to take action—to deliberately put themselves in the “right place at the right time.”

The Gut-Wrenching Process of Befriending Ourselves

Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Discovery / By Rita Berger

For better or for worse, there is no way around the fact that technology breeds isolation, at least in certain ways. Eighty-two percent of American smartphone users (a majority of our nation’s population) reported in a recent Pew survey that the presence of phones deteriorated their most recent in-person conversations. Such figures are harrowing, but not surprising.

Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Abandonment

Wellness / By Margaret Paul

Most people want to believe that their anxiety or depression is being caused by other people or by events – but these are not the major causes of most current anxiety and depression. Certainly, we all experience anxiety or depression regarding painful and challenging life events, but this is different than ongoing anxiety or depression. …

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Your Greatest Comrade in the Fight Against Daily Despair

Back Away From the Wall. Be More Like the Butterfly.

The First Secret to Thriving is There are no Secrets

The Fight in My Head

Five Practices for Living Your Best Life

How to Tend Your Own Wound

The Little Known Reason Why It’s Hard To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

Inspiring Ways to Manifest Love

The Gut-Wrenching Process of Befriending Ourselves

Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Abandonment

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