healing
How to heal fully and properly.
The Wind on Your Side
Finding moments of bliss and beauty is essential to a life filled with joy. No matter how small or short that moment is, enjoy it wholly. Let that feeling compel you to greater things, and let the stress of everyday life fade at least for a little while.
By Richard Piland7 years ago in Motivation
My Anxiety Is Everywhere and Nowhere
Green Man is a pagan deity who has gotten on my case about doing something with my life. He’s right; I need to do something with my life. But my knee injury is something I need to have better first, or maybe I can just push my way through my pain. Green Man is ancient. Yes, I have anxiety and he should take that into account before he pesters me to do something with my life some more. Green Man is a god of vegetation and plant life, in addition to ranting to me about doing something with my life.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez7 years ago in Motivation
What I Thought
I guess when I was younger, I wished a lot of things for myself when I “grow up.” I suppose every kid had those thoughts. Every kid wanted to be an astronaut or a race car driver or a doctor. And some kids went over the top like becoming President or becoming a celebrity. I, for one, was one of those over-the-top kids. I always knew I had a talent and I always thought that I was unique or I was the only one out of almost everyone that could sing. My small innocent feeble mind made me believe that it was rare that hardly anyone could sing unless you were famous.
By M O7 years ago in Motivation
Stick and Stones May Break My Bones
Most of us on Facebook have seen the post “share a picture of you in your senior year and one now.” I know I did and I even shared it myself and said “it’s amazing what eight years and a baby can do.” That post got me thinking a lot about something that I overheard over a decade ago...
By Chelsea Kitchen7 years ago in Motivation
Decisions, Decisions
Decisions, decisions… How do we really deal with the hard ones? 2017 was certainly a year of change for me on a personal level, with dramatic endings happening on a weekly basis. (I know I am among friends when I say this). It felt like a never-ending soap opera and that is putting it mildly.
By Ruby Brown7 years ago in Motivation
Courage
Downcast soul, what have you become? You've been wearing this mask for too long and now it is stuck on my face like a shitty song in my head. I'm living in this tragic, yet silver lining of a whirlwind feeling like a meal for wolves. But really, what am I here for? I do not want to follow the rules and I sure as hell do not want to be stuck in this cell. I feel like my whole body is wrapped with a python and leeches are on my heart. When will this ache stop and my exhausted body become full again? I don't know who I am anymore, must be the trauma, it's a start. I won't pick up the phone. I lie and say I'm not home. What kind of friend am I? They don't know I lay with demons. My heart is gold, my body is dead, my mind is racing. How am I even standing? If you knew the real me, would you run, would you fly with me? Locked in these handcuffs with the key just far enough for me to miss it.
By Nicolette Heisler7 years ago in Motivation
How to Cope with Grief and the Loss of a Loved One
Grieving the loss of our loved ones is like a never ending battle with ourselves. The pain is deep and our wounds are fresh, yet we manage to survive another day without their presence. In such times of tribulation we go through multiple stages of grief, until we are not yet healed but rather saved; for when we lose someone we love, we almost die with them. A part of us is gone, some parts perhaps you may never retrieve. However, we all have a choice to fight through the battle and cope with our emotions. We can learn how to take it one day at a time, or how I like to call it, one breath at a time. By sharing my very own past experience of how I coped with my pain and struggles, I hope doing so will help shed light on anyone who is struggling and in need of some answers. The past few months have been the most difficult I’ve had to face. My patience, strengths, and weaknesses all have been tested. I have watched my universe flip upside down and have gotten to see life, the grand world I live in, and everything around me change dramatically, causing a shift in the way I see things, and influencing my perspective on living, dying, and all in between. I now see things in a new light because of it, almost like I have a new pair of eyes, seeing for the first time.
By Hillary Nizam7 years ago in Motivation
You Always Find Your Way Back Home
Need we talk about the things that are obvious? The sky is blue, the sun rose this morning, the moon will set again tonight and the waves are still crashing along the shoreline somewhere. Need we explain the currents? The phases of that same moon which some of us rely so heavily upon? Dare I remind you of our president and the men and women who run our country? No, none of this is necessary, none of this is relevant to what I do need to talk about. Whether or not the waves crash along the shoreline does not change how I am feeling. The stage in which the moon finds itself in tonight does not negate nor does it influence the weight I am feeling pressing against my chest. If you think these things are necessary, if you think the current president and the color of the sky are important right now then I am sorry, but I refuse to use my vanishing breath to talk about things we cannot seem to change. So may I bother you for one moment? Burden you with the pain that seems to be wrapping itself around my barely beating heart?
By Amber Paulison7 years ago in Motivation
Damaged People Cannot Spread Healing!
I often thought that I could help people heal without being healed myself. I was broken, and all the pieces of the puzzle of my life laid at the doorstep of everyone who had hurt me. So, on my journey to help others, I was further breaking things, adding salt to their wounds and sticking a new knife inside because all I had to offer them was bitterness and anger. I poured my hurt into them, thinking I was helping them heal. I was damaging the very people who never hurt me. It was not until many, many years later that I realized just how broken and wounded I was, and many years after this realization that another fact came to me, I couldn't help anyone heal being in this condition, and I can't love anyone with these untreated wounds.
By Allata Gonsalves7 years ago in Motivation
