healing
How to heal fully and properly.
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
2020: A Year of Maybes
Maybe it was what it was meant to be, what we needed. 2020 has become a year when life was put on pause with no one knowing when it would resume or if it ever would pick up back from where it left off again. Taking all the excuses away because we have nowhere to be and no one to see.
By M F5 years ago in Motivation
Reflection
I'm a writer by trade. It's literally my job to write films and stuff for television. I know many writers that have said that COVID lockdown, has done wonders for their writing life. They've written more than they have in years. Well... lucky them. If anything, lockdown has had the complete opposite effect on me. I've hardly written a thing.
By Rebecca Smith5 years ago in Motivation
Mom's Closet
The other day, my mom cleaned out my old closet at her house to make room for a built in desk so she has a nice place to continue working remotely. She packed up everything that I left there and she drove it to the town I live in. I knew I didn't need all of those old things. We met in the Home Depot parking lot and I moved all of those old things to my boyfriend's truck. I spread it all out on his living room floor and I started picking through all of the old, painful, sometimes joyful parts of my life. These are the things that I learned.
By Casey Hemphill5 years ago in Motivation
It's Ok To Be A Victim: an excerpt
So often we are told to "stop playing victim" and "to get over it already, " oh and my personal favorite, "you ain't the first you won't be the last." These ideals can form mental barriers to vulnerability and this proved more than true for me. It have had to take time to accept that I have been raped one more than one occassion. One can't call themselves a survivor if they are still just surviving. It's become a norm in various cultures to just bury hurt and sorrow beneath layers of concrete defense mechanisms only for it to one day break through to the surface peaking out of its festering darkness into nourishing sunlight.
By Angela Mackie5 years ago in Motivation
How To Reinvent Yourself
In everyone’s life, there comes a point when you feel stuck, and it is just like being a prisoner of your own quagmire. You feel that no matter what you do, nothing will ever change for the better and you will be stuck in a hopeless tangle. This situation can be dealt by reinventing yourself.
By Yogyata Gupta5 years ago in Motivation
The Road to Contentment
One can never attempt to be profound. I suppose that’s an ironic thing to say as someone who uses ‘one’ in every sentence so I can to try to seem more profound but I suppose after writing it a thousand times this truth has finally come to me. Revelations are like the wind; when they come we feel as if all of creation is animate again, as if we have just discovered something so profound that it could never leave us. And yet, inevitably, someday it does, and sadness and confusion close in upon our light once again. I’ve spent my entire life attempting to fight this cycle but what I’m finally realizing after it’s swallowed me up and spit me out a million different times is that this cycle is a revelation itself, a revelation that sadness and stasis can’t take away. Change is inevitable but it’s more than that; we have to forgive ourselves for our own feelings. Sometimes we feel sad when we’re supposed to feel happy. When we have everything people below us wish to have: a roof over our heads, loving families, food in our stomachs. Sometimes when we’re supposed to feel safe we feel as if we’re in danger, when we’re supposed to feel angry we feel forgiving, and when we’re supposed to feel calm we feel enraged. And it’s all okay; the truth is we don’t have control over ourselves, even though we do. We are the actors upon our own minds; the forces which shape our every move and yet, though we may be the most powerful of these forces, we are never the only ones. There will always be actors outside of ourselves; our social environment, our family, the weather. Each of these things is like us, constantly changing and as much as we try to reinforce our own agency against these forces, at the end of the day we will always change with them. We will move gracefully or we will move clumsily but nonetheless, we will be moved. How then can we hold ourselves together against the roiling currents of life? The answer to this is another cliche but it doesn’t matter: we can reinforce ourselves against inevitable change by remembering our values. By selecting a few things from the composite entities of existence that matter to us, for the largest portion of our waking hours. These could be passion projects, duties to the ones we love, or moral values we intend never to erode. By clinging to these things and allowing others which feel less important to fall away, we can remember ourselves. When we wake up and feel smothered by an impenetrable blanket of sadness and self doubt we can remember that we are a person who finds it important to be clean, and take a shower. When we barely have the motivation to move we can remember that we are a person who finds it important to be with our grandmother on her birthday, to watch the waves crash against the shore, or sketch the dappled light which trickles through forest leaves. Life is hard, and even when you believe it will become less so, it often remains just as hard as it used to be. In order to survive in this weary world we need to remember why we’ve survived so long. For those of who can struggle with suicide it can often be hard to articulate to others just how difficult life can feel, whether our lives take the shape of something our elders would describe difficult or not. It doesn't matter what they think! What right does a parent have to tell a child the sandbox isn’t coarse and dirty when they haven’t stepped foot in it for decades? Or lecture a student on the ease of education after they’ve been away from it for longer than the person they’re lecturing has been alive? None of us can ever truly perceive one another’s perceptions, because how can a woman on the second floor understand the view from the fifth? They are simply unable to and that’s okay. Forgive yourself for all those things the people around you say aren’t hard enough to make you feel the way you do.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta5 years ago in Motivation
Move with purpose
Knowing your goals can change, the steps we take can lead us there or we could end up lost. Taking action towards a purposeful goal is rewarding in itself. Not knowing the path is what excites the wildside in all of us. A careful blueprint model to success could lead you into feeling lost or literally asking yourself how did I get here? Moving forward using personal stories and lessons learned may provide you with a point of view unconsidered.
By Marcus Azaria5 years ago in Motivation
