healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Forever Pondering the Concept of Self Love
Today was pretty good but I'm feeling off tonight. It's about 11:30 pm. I'm painfully insecure and I have a horrible habit of comparing myself to other women, particularly on Instagram. Sometimes it's people I know in real life, sometimes it's someone I would probably never meet. I was feeling okay about myself today but then randomly started thinking about some girl I know who is a million times prettier than me and decided to scan her profile just to wish I could be her. It's a self-sabotaging thing I do, I intentionally view the profiles of these people who I feel so insecure about to figure out why I wasn't lucky enough to be that pretty or have that life or whatever it is. There is just a sense of satisfaction that I imagine comes along with being gifted with a perfect physical body, to look good in all pictures and from all angles, and to go about life feeling good about oneself. I wish I knew what that felt like. Sometimes I can agree that I'm pretty attractive, but it takes a lot of work for me to not crumble at the sight or thought of someone who is so much better than me, whoever it is that day.
By Loretta Flowers5 years ago in Motivation
Swimming With Wild Dolphins
On January 20, 2009, I wasn't planning on swimming with dolphins. I also wasn't planning on watching Obama's first inauguration in the lobby of the historic Manago Hotel in Captain Cook, Hawaii. I had simply wanted to escape the confines of the land-locked work trade I'd drifted into at South Point, the most southerly point in the entire 50 states. Somehow I, a passionate ocean lover, had found myself without a car, far from the water pulling weeds and painting two-by-fours at a retreat center that could only be accessed by driving through a cow pasture. There was a bull, too, which made walking out to the road even more intimidating.
By Jennifer Lighty5 years ago in Motivation
Motivation to Thrive
Can you walk with me? Can you let go of the details and breathe with me from your diaphragm(places hand on the diaphragm for visual instruction), and release the tension beneath your skull and between those shoulders. Breathing from the diaphragm ensures complete oxygen intake to your muscles without putting tension on your shoulders as when breathing from the lungs. Yes, expand that lower stomach and feel the fresh air flow into your lower belly and back up through your lungs. Let the air, warm from its journey, escape from your nostrils. Soon we will go to a place only reached in the mind. But first, notice the trees.
By Brigida Levonna5 years ago in Motivation
Resolutions and Abuse
The New Year, came and went just like every other year and just like every other year so did all of the resolutions I had come up with: losing weight, being healthier, quitting all of my terrible habits. Yeah none of those things happened, they weren’t even in the realm of happening. I tried for awhile bought some stuff that was advertised for me on all the social media websites I regularly check into. Made a meal plan, I even went and got some new workout stuff. Well then life happened. Same old me came and faced me in the mirror and was like who are you kidding; you make the same resolutions every year and to no avail you always fail.
By Alison Williams5 years ago in Motivation
Grace's Diner
"Then Grace" has lived a hard life. Weathered by her existence as the owner of a bus stop diner in the Midwest of the 1950's her face is a road map. Wrinkles and lines represent the people she has met, counseled, loved and lost. The darkness around her eyes illustrates her many experiences and tragedies. The glimmer in her tired eyes, however, gives a glimpse into the miracles that have come her way.
By Barbara Higgins5 years ago in Motivation
