healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Creating my own life
"You are the creator of your own reality." My mother said to me one day, "Your life will be anything you want it to be." My mother was insistent. She wanted me to hear and understand what she was trying to tell me. It was important to her that I truly understood her message.
By Chutisa Bowman4 years ago in Motivation
5 Signs You're In Recovery
As a society we speak a lot about what is wrong with us. How we can improve or progress. Whilst it is perfectly healthy to want to better ourselves, we can never really appreciate the now if we are constantly worrying about the future. Furthermore, it can be important, particularly for those of us who have been overcoming past trauma, to take a moment to live in the present and appreciate how far we have come. After all, isn’t that what we have been bettering ourselves for? To step out of the past, away from the anxiety of the future and into the present?
By Outrageous Optimism 4 years ago in Motivation
Love, Adventure, & Breaking Up
"I feel most authentically myself when I'm alone with just my thoughts, a journal, and a pen. When I feel such clarity, I know who I am and what I am made for. I was made for LOVE and ADVENTURE, and a life without both of those just isn't the life for me." -Author
By Overall Good Day Girl4 years ago in Motivation
The Phoenix
A chilling January wind parts around a cozy-looking house. Outside, it is decorated with precisely planted flowers in the front garden, a little bird-feeder by the front window, and colorful potted plants by the driveway. It looks like a happy little cottage, nestled cleanly among a wonderful neighborhood on the edge of upper-class rural suburbia.
By Kit Queen4 years ago in Motivation
Overcomer
So much didnt make sense to me as a child. I loved my family so deeply but always felt out of place, different to my siblings. I guess some would say I was an odd child. My mother, who died of cancer in March of 2006, used to love to tell the story of my birth. I was born a cold winters day in a little town called Toowoomba, 1.5 hours west of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, a state in Australia. My mother had developed a seemingly sudden and very severe kidney infection, that jeopardized her life and my own, so she was induced and I was delivered prematurely on the 4th of June 1977. She said I was born angry, screaming infact and that I never really stopped. Many times, I have laughed at this recollection of hers, during her life and since her passing however I know now, I wasn’t born angry, I was a born a warrior, because my life would be marred by abuse, pain, abandonement, sickness and a more than one time battle to simply continue exsisting in this world.
By Priscilla Wright4 years ago in Motivation
Graduation and Me
It was years before I was able to recognize I had experienced trauma from years of bullying in school. I grew up in a small, blue collar town and though my family was there my heart never was. My relatives weren't very close and I was often unsure of how they felt about me. In the midst of a culture obsessed with lifted pickup trucks, hunting and football I was drawn to theater and punk rock. If acting drew a target on my back then punk rock made sure that target was painted aerosol neon red with my other cheek turned to be slapped as well.
By Donald Shrode4 years ago in Motivation
Defy and conquer
What is authenticity. Is it the bravery of approaching the world with no makeup on. I never spent a fortune on buying the myriad of products that I believe does more harm than good to one's skin, and subjects your face to the mercies of the many and varied chemicals that may or may not be in the concoctions. I am assured though that they are really good for my skin.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Motivation
Breaking Bad Habits Is Not That Bad
We all have or have had some bad habits in our lives. The impact of these bad habits can range from inconsequential to severe. These habits can affect our physical health, our mental health, our spiritual health and even our financial well being. The range of affects on us personally and the people around us is sadly limitless but luckily it is also something that we can change. So, if you want to change these bad habits then it is in your sphere of influence. In other words, you can do it. But how?
By Millington Lockwood4 years ago in Motivation
The unlikely marriage between Surfing and Psychosis
I had spent the last week sprawled out in the back of a Humvee, sleeping each night on a stretcher. Adjacent to me was another Hospital Corpsman. Our job that week was to ensure the safe execution of a live-fire range, conducted by the Marines in our battalion. Both of us were at the tail end of our naval service, and bonded over stories of far off deployments to Somalia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. These conversations were occasionally interrupted by the sudden need to tend to an injury, a drill, or distant rifle and rocket fire.
By Ezra Berkman4 years ago in Motivation
