self help
Self help, because you are your greatest asset.
Six Ways to Take Care of the You That Matters
Within the past year, the United States alone has endured a global pandemic, extreme racism, a worsening political climate, and I think it is far to say, just an overall crappy year. Seriously, it’s almost been a full year; the world completely shut down in March of 2020.
By Gabrielle Nicole5 years ago in Motivation
Create the life you want
She put the pen to the paper and began jotting down all the things she had envisioned for herself. Where she wanted to live, what she wanted to do for her forever career, and how she wanted to feel. For the first time ever it felt obtainable. It felt as if it was all possible. Even if it was just scribbled in the millionth “on-sale” journal she had bought this year.
By Cherenda Laverne5 years ago in Motivation
How to Jump Start Healthier Choices in 2021
Canyons are dug slowly over time. These huge, magnificent changes are the result of small, incremental changes, over a long period of time. When it comes to our health and fitness, it is hard to get the ball rolling back in the right direction. I don't care who you are or how disciplined you are (or were). It is easier to eat that shitty food, have those couple extra drinks, and binge watch another show on Netflix instead of exercising. Maybe it was the pandemic that knocked you off your good habits. Maybe it was your first baby, or a promotion at work that now takes up all your time. Whatever it was, it can seem too daunting, too hard, too uncomfortable to get back on track. We have all been there.
By Daniel Wilkins5 years ago in Motivation
Discovering self-love.
2020 became too much. Too much for a newly qualified young 24 year old male therapist. The stories I heard day-to-day. The isolation created by a national lockdown and the risks that came with a global pandemic. A long-term partner suffering with severe mental health difficulties, too far away to feel I was making any positive impact on her life. A mother, who was recovering from a brain anuerysm.
By Aaron Penberthy5 years ago in Motivation
Lessons From a Former Pushover
Realizing I Was Too Nice Just after the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were issued, I ran into one of my neighbors and her daughter. I was just getting back from running a few errands when she saw me from her balcony, which faces the front of our apartment building. Our conversation continued for a little longer than I liked, especially because I was holding a few bags, so I tried to politely end it. But she had an ulterior motive: she wanted to ask me for a favor.
By Aria Dailee5 years ago in Motivation
Honouring Your Path
Are you honouring your path? Each of us is here to walk a different path. And on that path, we are either taking the steps that lead us forward or hold us back depending on our choices. It is easy to compare our journey to everyone else, and it can be hard to remember that our journey is for our soul’s growth, especially when we feel stuck. But feeling stuck can be a positive thing. It can help us to see that it’s time to honour ourselves and our path because this journey isn’t about the destination, it’s about how we get there, the experiences we have, and what we learn along the way.
By Emma Jayne Lions5 years ago in Motivation
Stand in your Greatness, be the Badass Chick that you are
Stop being a doormat to other people because of your insecurities. Start living your life with confidence and being the best version of you to attract the same back to you. You can’t expect to manifest the life or the people you want in your reality by sitting on your bed visualizing and feeling sorry for yourself. Be unapologetically selfish with going after the life you want. If you want results to appear, then you need to take assertive action. You must be willing to change and shift your state of being to derive the life you seek.
By Kristen Viscardi5 years ago in Motivation
Little Black Book
Gwen was forty-six years old. She came from a poor family, given many things in life, but had been in the service to make a living. She had made a lot of miscalculations and mistakes along the way. She had come close to being arrested during her rebellion. She came from a life of hard knocks and had envisioned a life of helping others. She struggled hard, worked harder, and indebted herself to further her education. She shelled out countless long nights and thousands of dollars for a phycology degree. After getting her degree she excitedly went to work. Her excitement was short-lived. She watched week after a week her clients' problems and day and after she felt as though she was making little to no progress. Feeling their burdens she quickly became overwhelmed.
By Mel Cook5 years ago in Motivation
Parental Appreciation
I think it's true what they say; that you never truly appreciate the sacrifices that your parents made, until you become a parent yourself. It's not to say that you couldn't appreciate all your parents have done for you, in not being a parent yourself, but becoming a parent yourself definitely puts things into a far greater perspective. As children, we seem to have no understanding of sacrifice whatsoever. The world is all about us, and just having fun. We don't give a thought to the fact our mummy or daddy packs us a healthy lunch to take to school each day. We don't give a thought to how our mummy and daddy spend their time and energy to provide us with clean clothes in our drawer to wear. We don't give a thought to how the food placed on the table in front of us was provided from mummy and/or daddy after having worked hard at their jobs each day, and then coming home to prepare our meals for us. We don't give a thought to the fact that our mummy and daddy work so hard just to keep a roof over our head, and provide us with warm clothing to wear. Our thoughts are only centered around what new toys or what yummy lollies and ice cream mummy and daddy can buy for us. We want to just be happy, have fun, and we live with an expectation that mummy and daddy will always be there to provide for us. By the time we reach our teenage years, even then, our expectations rarely change. The only difference is that we become more defiant, and we demonstrate a worse attitude. In fact, our expectations become greater, as we feel the need to keep up with our friends in having the latest forms of technology at our disposal.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Open: Choices
I can honestly say at this stage in my life I don’t have the goal of being the end all be all in anything in particular. I no longer desire to be the best at something. As a matter of fact my M.O. is usually to excited about something, like so many hobbies I’ve had over the years that I ran hard for a few months and lost interest. Oh did I mention I definitely have ADHD? More on that another time I’d say, For now, we’re circling the wagons back to the point,
By Quinten Larsen5 years ago in Motivation
Open: Trying to Be More Open
Half of the time I have no idea what I’m doing, or more simply lose my place when I’m trying to get things done. It’s also very funny to me that words come so easily to me when I’m having a conversation but not when I’m trying to get an idea out on paper…. Or into the world for that matters.
By Quinten Larsen5 years ago in Motivation
