healing
How to heal fully and properly.
The People Pleaser's Guide to Setting Boundaries
For a big chunk of my life, I struggled with healthy boundaries. Mainly because I had no idea what they looked like. I grew up in an abusive house and was quickly dismissed and punished for asking what I wanted or needed.
By Emily Stroia6 years ago in Motivation
How to Forgive Someone You Hate
If you ask a room full of strangers what forgiveness means to them, you will hear a diverse collective of replies. "Letting go and moving on""Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die""Peace of mind""Letting go of the anger"
By Emily Stroia6 years ago in Motivation
The Tsunami-ed Life (Part 4)
Grief and sorrow, anger and rage, joy and love, disbelief and denial, relaxation and relief, all emotions that can come as a result of a tsunami (yes, joy and love because even the birth of your first child is a tsunami). Emotion is the foundation of the tsunami-ed life actually, the reason you experience what you experience. And they will arrive in a wide range of experiences and on a schedule that is utterly their own. You have no say, no control as to when they arrive (or leave), you can only respond when they show up however they choose to.
By Jessica Circe6 years ago in Motivation
How to Love Yourself
The empty feeling, the sadness it brings along with it. The image of me floating off to outer space, floating off to blackness, as still as the space holds me, looking at nothing but emptiness. Nowhere to go, no one to find me. Lost and confused. How could that be? That’s ok, I’m comfortable. It’s a comfortable feeling, I finally feel comfortable. But why am I so sad? Why am I so sad when I’m comfortable?
By yuk6 years ago in Motivation
'All Happy Families Are Alike; Each Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own Way'
I’ve come across thousands of quotes in my life, maybe even millions, but Maya Angelou’s "one isn’t necessarily born with courage, but potential" has stuck with me through even the hardest of times. Literature has always acted as my escape. I find myself constantly searching for a character or a specific plot line to relate to what I am also going through, and if this turns out to be a bad situation, I like to think that I’m never suffering alone. However, there are also particularly strong women in my current, non-fictional life that is by far superior to any fictional world.
By Em Whitehouse6 years ago in Motivation
The Truth
I am currently living in London for a month, prepping for a tour I am a part of, and so far it has definitely been eye opening! I can say, without reservation, that I am a work addict and I put way too much of my personal value in my day job, I have a relatively unhealthy relationship with myself (which is why I try to keep living life 1,000 miles a minute, so I don’t have to feel things), and also that writing more honest music has been a lot more than I bargained for. That being said, its a lot more than I bargained for in good and bad ways.
By Monte Mader7 years ago in Motivation
How Regret Has Taught Me More About Self-Care as a Business Owner
The time I took recovering from my burn out gave me a chance to see things from a different perspective. It gave me a chance to separate my regret, guilt, and what I thought of as short comings from my actions. In essence, I was separating my emotions from my actions so I could define them clearly. I needed to identify my motivators and my drivers.
By Laura Tran7 years ago in Motivation
The Tsunami-ed Life (Part 1)
What does it mean to be tsunami-ed? Truthfully nothing, it's not a verb but it is an appropriate metaphor of the destruction resulting from a life-altering event... an event that forever changes you and how you see your world. Experiencing that, living in its aftermath, is what I mean when I say tsunami-ed.
By Jessica Circe7 years ago in Motivation
The Art of Digesting One's Experience
Where I'm from, May heralds the deep of spring: cold rains and riotously colored blossoms. Evening comes, and the sun lingers on and on. I think that was the hardest thing, at first, coming to Australia. Spring had been blossoming into summer—and suddenly, upon landing among the submergent coastlines of Sydney, at 4:30 PM, the light was gone. It was as though night were a blanket pulled over my eyes. No cold air to tell my body it was winter—just a daily, evening blindness.
By Luna Jennifer Cross7 years ago in Motivation
Freedom
Freedom, one word with so many meanings. Each of you had a fleeting thought when you saw that word, what it meant to you. Maybe to you it was that you just retired and the world is now your personal playground. Perhaps you just graduated and you have no classes to study for or tests to stress over.
By Jodi Roberts7 years ago in Motivation
Dear You, I'm Taking My Power Back
It took me days and days to feel okay enough to publish this. I'm sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen listening to the rain as I read this over and over and over again, debating whether or not to hit publish. I'm uncomfortable with the finality of hitting that button even though I know I need to do this. Not for you, or my family or my past; but for me, right now in this moment and for my future self. I need to let go of the fear and the control you have over me and have had over me since I was little. You don't control me anymoreand I refuse to let the thought of you stop me from living my life. I know I should have done this a long time ago but I'm proud of myself for feeling worth it enough to do it now. I'm done pretending nothing happened and secretly letting you tear me apart behind the closed doors of my mind. I'm done with it. I don't want you in my head anymore, and I will not let what you said and put me through stop me from becoming who I want and deserve to be.
By the.unstable.sibling7 years ago in Motivation
