healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Bring May Flowers
Bring May Flowers I gently placed yesterday’s socks on the tip top of the mountain of clothes piled up on my computer chair. I stared in agony as the month old heap of yoga pants, crew necks and cardigans tumbled to the floor. I laugh to myself thinking, “this is unreal.” I fish around my jewelry box and pull out an old stretched out hair tie. I throw my hair in a top bun and survey my studio apartment. It was a disaster. To go boxes from several bad dates and door dash leftovers littered my kitchen counter. I should really start cooking more. I have been in a three month funk since the break up with my ex of two years.
By Tia James5 years ago in Motivation
5 Tips to Break Out of Your COVID-Potato Habits
3/16/21 Sunlight has begun to noticeably grow longer throughout the day and the morning nip in the air might be starting to fade away. Spring is in the air and you might be feeling that you want to refresh your current lifestyle and break out of some bad habits that you have acquired during COVID.
By J. Kersey5 years ago in Motivation
Self-Love
“When you picture unconditional, self-love in your head, what does that look like to you?” That was the question I needed to start with. And, it’s been a roller coaster of a ride ever since I looked into the mirror and first asked myself that question.
By Pam Hunsinger5 years ago in Motivation
The Organizing Mind
Forming Clutter When you were five, what do you remember wanting more than anything? I remember wanting a bicycle. Tricia down the street had a pink one with a sparkly seat and streamers on the handlebars. I coveted that bike all summer, hoping for my own slice of five-year old heaven. I was ready to ride, and as Christmas approached, I could smell the new plastic of my sparkly seat and feel the metal handles, warm in the sun, with sleek streamers flying from their tips. I would be the new belle of the block.
By Kira Morgan5 years ago in Motivation
Cleaning the Basement of My Mind to Enjoy the Spring of My Life. Top Story - March 2021.
I feel held back. Not by anyone or anything per se but by my own stifling memories housed in the basement of my mind. And in the spirit of spring, the season of lovely, new experiences, fresh beginnings, and great shifts in perspectives, I felt that it was only appropriate to begin to clean the memories that have kept me in a perpetual bind.
By Dream Silas5 years ago in Motivation
9 steps to a healthier and happier me
Behind my smile and commitment to the job, I felt myself breaking. A workload that exhausted capacity, inadequate supervision, different practice lenses to my line manager, different approaches to practice, values mismatch, feeling pressured, feeling threatened and job dissatisfaction all contributed to overwhelming stress and emotional and physical ill-health. I clearly remember being in the office alone at 7 pm on a Friday evening completing tasks of 3 different roles (2 of which were not mine yet impacted it) and almost breaking. Burnout was where I was headed.
By Georgie5 years ago in Motivation
Proper Ways to be Selfish
It’s hard, I know… Trying to confine vastness into our own perspective, but some things are simply illimitable. Time, light, dark, love. So how do we make our time worth experiencing? Do we really have the freedom to enjoy it? What can be improved through perception? We know that we are expanding, but into what?
By Tia5 years ago in Motivation
Mindfulness
Our minds are our own prison and heavily influenced by its surroundings and what it digests. This is not a new concept or thought and have been wrote extensively about for 1000s of years. Its a tough process but even Dante and Alice had a tour guide through it so maybe by the end of this all you might pick up a few more friends you never noticed you already had. I propose some unconventional therapy for some unconventional times and maybe in a generation or two we might have a better tomorrow to look forward to.
By Glytch5 years ago in Motivation
Soar
What is rising from your ashes? Have you been hit with a series of unfortunate and unimaginable circumstances that have you reeling? Have you been given the opportunity to seek employment, relationship, fulfillment elsewhere? Has your world exploded? Did a relationship or project get consumed by flames?
By Bob McInnis5 years ago in Motivation
My Fresh Start in the "City of Angels"
This place (Los Angeles, Ca) has been a part of my life that has most of my beautiful and painful memories in my life that made me change a lot for more than two years of my life. I have become someone who is more mature and wise and not to mention about me being patience and more understanding. Sometimes, I think about "What if's" but rather not know the possible answers for I don't want to give myself a hard time. Coming back here is one of the toughest decisions that I had to make because I know most of the places here in L.A. have the memories I had with the most important person in my life who was once not just my lover, but also as my partner, and my best friend. Driving to the places where I used to go with this person makes me ask myself if I really moved on. And the answer is YES. I moved on. This person is no longer part of the life I am living in right now and I am living my life with trials and errors. I met new people who I am becoming friends with and I discovered more interesting places to check out. I have nothing to say but I am so proud of myself for being one of the strong women of my generation. I am someone who is living in "my American dream" and who is someone who has a lot of responsibilities to my family. Some people say, being kind and soft-hearted is a weakness. I agree because I have experienced how people take advantage of that goodness. But despite hating, I rather still smile and be able to live my life without any regrets or guilt. True that I am still in the midst of finding an opportunity for myself or say, a career that I am hoping to achieve in life. It is difficult for sure. Not having a lot of people who know me. It is a very competitive place especially for someone like me. Hardship doesn't bother me that much but the negative people who constantly throw their garbage at me and yet I try to understand as much as I can. I just hope people learn how to understand each other more, rather than pushing each other on the edge of something just to see who is better and who is not. I don't normally say anything about God, but I do believe in God 100%. Unfortunately, I may not be physically healthy ever since, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, I am very healthy and that is why I am still standing wherever I am. I would like to share my thoughts about how to live life even though the whole world is not exactly cooperating on how you can achieve your success in time. It did take me a while to understand it myself, but hopefully what I am going to share would make sense to anyone who is still reading this. Life doesn't have a PLAN A or PLAN B. There shouldn't be a plan after all in my opinion because in my experience, I don't know what the future holds for me. Every second matter, it can change every path of everyone's life. So for me, what really matters is that you are ready on how to face the possible possibilities that you would face in different circumstances of your life. Expecting sometimes can lead to disappointments. Sounds familiar right? So why not expect the unexpected? Life is sure challenging. You meet people maybe few or a lot, but it doesn't matter. What matters is, you choose who to look up to to inspire yourself how to become better as a person and take the bad ones as an example of not to have in your life to avoid negative energy that will affect your positive thoughts. Life is love itself. We just don't find love from friends, family, or to anyone else. We find love in ourselves if you know how to appreciate every single and simple thing that you have in your life. You may not have a lot of things like what others have, but you have something in common... and that is LIFE. That makes everyone equal. So it doesn't matter what your nationality, color, age, sex, or religion is because everyone has a heart and mind that make us have a LIFE. Life is life. We all live, and we all die. And the "AFTERLIFE" story is for us to discover when we finally reach that final stage of our lives. But our final stage is not the ending, it's just a new beginning. So if you think you are having an unfortunate life right now, let me remind you again that you have all the chances in this world to get up and stand up again because you haven't reached your final stage of your life to quit. I am so thankful for all the people who gave me love. These people I care about are the people who inspire me in my journey of life. As long as I don't give up, I believe I can also make it. And I hope you too.
By Barlin Chaves5 years ago in Motivation
Writing something - is it a book? Probably not. If it were I’d call it “I Can’t Sleep”... but it’s probably nothing.
I can’t sleep. I desperately want to sleep. Instead I lay here wondering why the fuck I can’t sleep and wishing I could. It’s a vicious cycle, I’ve tried sleeping pills, warm milk, edibles, really good indica... nothing works. I even tried listening to sleep hypnosis, the problem was that when the woman gently says in her soft ASMR whisper voice, 'just be...' I automatically hear Priyanka yelling 'JUST BE GAY!!!' I giggle, it's hilarious, but I'm certainly not hypnotized or sleeping.
By Heather Donald5 years ago in Motivation
