Stream of Consciousness

The Power of Gratitude
The Power of Gratitude: A Simple Key to Happiness Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions a person can experience. It has the ability to shift perspectives, improve well-being, and strengthen relationships. In a world where stress and negativity often take center stage, gratitude provides a refreshing and uplifting alternative. It does not require money, time, or any special effort—just a shift in mindset. When embraced, gratitude can transform the way people see their lives, making them more content, resilient, and emotionally strong.
By Gabriela Tone10 months ago in Confessions
Top 10 Relaxing tips
Top 10 Relaxation Techniques for Stress Relief Stress is an inevitable part of life. Whether it stems from work deadlines, financial worries, relationship challenges, or everyday responsibilities, prolonged stress can negatively impact both mental and physical health. Chronic stress has been linked to anxiety, high blood pressure, digestive issues, and weakened immunity. Fortunately, there are numerous relaxation techniques that can help manage and reduce stress levels effectively.
By Gabriela Tone10 months ago in Confessions
The Thin Line Between Anxiety and Worry:
The Thin Line Between Anxiety and Worry Understanding the Overlap and Impact on Our Lives Anxiety and worry are emotions that nearly everyone experiences at some point. They can be unsettling and all-consuming, making it difficult to focus on the present moment or enjoy life. While these two feelings are often used interchangeably, they have distinct characteristics and different levels of intensity. However, there is also a considerable overlap, and understanding the similarities between anxiety and worry can shed light on how they affect our mental and physical well-being. By exploring the nuances of both, we can better grasp the thin line between them, learn effective coping strategies, and ultimately reduce their negative impact.
By Gabriela Tone10 months ago in Confessions
Credit Due. Content Warning.
**Just words that needed to be poured out for a healing to *hopefully* begin. ___ I'm not normally one to be easily fooled. For this reason alone, I must issue your credit due. Because, my dear, you sure had me going there, for a day or two. Or was it a week? Honestly, I can't recall.
By Lena Beana10 months ago in Confessions
The Struggle Of Emotions
This month’s Lupron shot has hit me hard this week while I have been sick. I have been struggling a lot with my emotions and cannot control them. My insecurities hurl themselves at me the first week of the injection and all I do is cry. It doesn’t help that this week I have been super sick. This is literally a two weeks after having norovirus and chemo was pushed back. Chemo probably will be pushed back again. Joy. And yes, this has been one of the reasons why I cried this week too.
By Jessie Lynn Nelson10 months ago in Confessions
Life goes on
Life is a journey filled with joy, sorrow, love, and loss. Among its many experiences, heartbreak is one of the most painful yet transformative. It comes in many forms—losing a loved one, the end of a relationship, or unfulfilled dreams. Though it feels unbearable in the moment, heartbreak teaches us resilience, strength, and the ability to grow beyond our pain.
By Anne__10 months ago in Confessions
What is truth, and what is a lie?
What is Truth, and What is a Lie? Random Thoughts of a Lonely Girl It's night outside—a starry night, covered in dim and darkness, yet bright and beautiful. I am looking outside my window, lost in thought. How is it bright outside even in this darkness? My eyes wander around, searching for the answer, and then I look up, to the sky. Oh, I see; it’s the twinkling stars making the night glow bright and beautiful.
By Jimini Park10 months ago in Confessions
Word of the Day: 具合がよい
I am feeling so much better now compared to the past couple of days. I took a Tylenol PM and it seemed to straighten out everything for me. Working on the lesson plan seems sort of dismal since I didn't establish a goal or something to work on with my student, but I am sure he'll just appreciate the working in the book.
By Kayla McIntosh10 months ago in Confessions
The Inkwell of Forgotten Whispers: A Confession Etched in Time’s Shadow:
The box arrived on a Tuesday, smelling of cedar and regret. Clara hadn’t spoken to her grandfather in seven years, not since he’d called her life’s work—“dusting books and daydreaming”—a waste of her Yale degree. Now he was gone, and his final letter, sealed with crimson wax, simply read: “For the Keeper of Stories.”
By Sanchita Chatterjee10 months ago in Confessions
A Night of Unforeseen Passions in a Remote Cabin
In the dim glow of a holiday cabin, you awaken to a scene that feels like a dream plucked from the pages of a steamy novel. The candles that once lit the room have dwindled, casting long shadows across the wooden walls. Beside you, the bed creaks as I shift, perched at its edge, peering into the darkness beyond a lattice screen that separates our space from another.
By KWAO LEARNER WINFRED10 months ago in Confessions
Chapter VII: The Ontology of Silence
From every corner of experience quiet, in its variations, is the sound of existence itself, the sound of absence. Silence has varied qualities. Think about the silence of dawn in the woods where the light of day pierces the top of the trees each moment like God holding its breath a split second longer; unmistakably old silence vibrating with memories of a forming world. Or, consider the silence of the city at sleep, thick with human noise, its asphalt heating up from the day's activity, not yet dissipated, a whole inhabited unconscious simmering like neurons firing in synchronization. Or, think about the silence before storm, a stretch, poised like a bow-and-arrow, the sound of silence true, always an inevitability; and, then there is the silence after-storm the world emerged as if it was hollowed out from a gutting, shaken pure everything is deemed newborn
By LUCCIAN LAYTH10 months ago in Confessions
A Legacy of Land and Love: The Story of Hazel La Forge
In the southeast corner of Missouri, where the Mississippi River carves its path through the fertile plains, lies New Madrid County-a quiet farming community steeped in history and tradition. Here, on a sprawling 2,000-acre estate, Hazel La Forge grew up as the spirited daughter of a proud agricultural dynasty. The land, flat and rich, hugged the riverbanks and yielded bountiful harvests year after year. It was a family treasure, held by the La Forges since before Missouri joined the Union in 1821.
By KWAO LEARNER WINFRED10 months ago in Confessions