happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Natural beauty
For many females, their relationship with their hair is an extremely personal one and a subject that indivisibly intertwined with self-image, self-care, identity, culture, and social pressures. Specifically for Black females, it can be even more complicated. A long history of Eurocentric beauty standards has impacted the way in which Black females relate to and care for their hair.
By Charismatic Writer5 years ago in Motivation
Go Be Gorgeous!
It started when I was 11. George Lucas had just released the prequels to his iconic Star Wars trilogy, and my imagination was on fire. In my friend's room, using combs and brightly colored ponytail holders and hairspray, I learned something that I will always carry with me.
By Elon Jones5 years ago in Motivation
PASSION
Just know my apologies that I’m all over the place due to last minute entry and very short time. TV shows, anime, books, movies, plays and etc have been my passion for quite some time. I watch, rate and critic theme because even the best ones have their flaws even if they’re minuscule they’re still flaws none the less. I currently have some ideas that I’m writing into reality along with using games and apps to create the characters and/or creatures into existence. My dream is to either have an anime, shorts, show, play or even a movie. I guess you can say that writing is the passion that leads to those being reality.
By Morgan Boruty 5 years ago in Motivation
The Sanctuary
.Dream. Inspire. Create Hot Coffee burns your legs, as you curse the driver who cut you off. Your frustration rises like a tsunami racing towards land. You get to work and your colleagues are off sick leaving you with a pile of projects to finish before the day is out. With a sense of begrudgement your working day begins.
By Heidi Kaser5 years ago in Motivation
Sad Superpower
I have a knack for taking an idea and turning it into a creation. My chosen creative outlets that make my heart soar are writing, singing, drawing, painting, acting, dancing, and interpreting. I love to interpret my feelings and point of view and create art out of thin air. I believe that the closest thing we have to the divine is artistic creation of any kind, and that can be specific or general to anything. Cooking is artistic creation, architecture is artistic creation. Humans need to be creative for survival and every human is an artist who interprets in their own way with their own senses and ideas. I love to be inspiration to any beholder by creating art through as many outlets that I can find. I’m not bragging that I’m great at every outlet I dabble at but it’s so much fun experiencing them. I am a singer, songwriter, poet, author, fashionista, and hairdresser. I actually like labels, when it’s light, fun, and not discriminatory. I like putting labels on myself because it helps me define myself through words and affirmations. I like to remind myself of my given labels because I want to entrain my self consciousness to love myself and see the beauty in myself so that I can reflect it back to others and show others what is beautiful within themselves. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, beauty is everywhere in the universe and just because a beholder judges it as beautiful or imperfect, does not make it so. I’ve written a song titled “Good in Goodbye.” When I wrote it, I had just said my goodbyes to my boyfriend, we broke up. I used that emotion I felt that day to write lyrics about how I felt. I wondered what exactly the good in goodbye was when it hurt to say goodbye to the one you love. In the song I cry because I can’t hear birds singing and I can’t see that the sky is blue because I had lost you. I explained in an interview with stereo stickman, a music blog in the UK about how there is good in goodbye. The good is the day after the necessary tears were shed. Crying is a good way for the body to release pent up energy in the body and cleanses your energy from sadness to acceptance. Crying also relieves stress, helps you sleep better, and releases endorphins. That’s part of the reason why the next morning after you’re done crying, you’re ready to start a new day full of sunshine, birds chirping, and blue skies. I wrote a children’s book on dealing with sadness and it introduces the topic of mental health. I wrote a cute story about Beethoven the Bear, a talented young bear cub who played music with his friend Pete the Baby Seal. One day Pete goes on vacation and leaves Beethoven by his lonesome. Beethoven is a Bipolar Bear- he is half honey bear and half polar bear. He experiences sadness deeper than other bears, but his sensitivity to his feelings is not a curse but it is his super power. He realizes that it’s perfectly ok to cry and have sad feelings and that it doesn’t make him q bad bear and that he’s welcomed and accepted in the world just the way he is. I wrote this book to inspire parents to be nurturing and graceful toward their children when they are sad because talking about how it isn’t shameful to cry, it teaches that it’s okay to share sad feelings and to not feel like they should feel guilty about feeling sad. This might help kids grow up to be more self aware and conscious adults who know to talk to someone when they need to. The goal is to have awareness on mental health and the importance of lifting that stigma because it’s a social stigma that was taught, so it should be taught early so that it isn’t a taboo topic. I want the book to inspire kids and adults alike to know that they are special, loved, and welcome in the world just the way they are, with no stigma coming from a label. I wanted to turn my curse into my super power by creating Beethoven the Bear. I want Beethoven to inspire the world to accept others like Beethoven who’s been given a label because of his sadness. But being blue is not a bad thing. Blue is a special color because it is the color of the hottest flame, it is the color of the sky, and the ocean. Blue is the color of creation and the earth is blue. Being blue is special. So I hope that Beethoven inspires others to take their blue and turn it into their sensitive super power. I am Milly Mercury and I make a difference in the world with my voice.
By Milly Mercury5 years ago in Motivation
The Six Degrees of Good
When I was a kid, I imagined often what the world would look like if everything and everyone was good. Five year old me said it best: “People are always nice to each other, the sun was always shining and I could have ice cream for breakfast whenever I want. There is color everywhere, and no one can tell me ‘no’.”
By Mona Jem5 years ago in Motivation
Blackberry Dreams
I am a faerie, and my name is Blackberry. I enjoy sweet treats, magical things, and tutus. I am magically weird, and I sparkle and shine. I am also an author and an adult with ADHD, a traumatic brain injury, and a learning disability. I know I can do anything I set my heart and mind to with passion and faith.
By M. G. Trehern5 years ago in Motivation
A Fulfilled Life
What fulfills me? What is my passion? Now those are very interesting questions. While I have many passions, most are nice but not specifically fulfilling. While it may sound like a company slogan or sales pitch, the reality is that my work fulfills me. It is not the company or money from working that does it, it is the people. I am a Mental Health Professional. There are various names for what I do; counselor, therapist, crisis responder, Impact team member; but they all mean the same thing to me, helping someone in need. Yes, there are many ways to help those in need, but in my career that is not always so cut, dry and pretty looking as donating money or food to those in need or rescuing animals. Sometimes it is talking someone through the urge to hurt or kill themselves. Other times it can be laying on the floor with a kid having a panic attack, just trying to get them to breath instead of hyperventilating.
By Kelly Waibel5 years ago in Motivation
The perspective of life can be different
Each of us has a unique viewpoint on life. Some of us see the bright side of whatever occurs. At the same time, some continue to blame life for being difficult. Why do some people notice the beauty of the garden while others see dried leaves and garbage strewn about? Why do some of us alter the conditions around us while others modify themselves to fit the situation?
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Motivation
