Living life as it comes
Dejection, despair, hopelessness. I’ve been there. Sometimes life seems so grey and dim, but if you’re determined, you can learn how to dig yourself out with a little shovel — the shovel of appreciation.
Continue reading “Why appreciating the little things will change your life”
On my journey from slob to relatively neat person, I had to do a bit of personal decluttering—that is, decluttering my person. To be honest, I still am and will continue to do so for the rest of my life.
We’re all human, and as humans we have this innate sense of wanting to feel like we’re on the right track– wanting to be on the right track. This can give us a lot of different ideas of what that “right track” looks like with regards to forgiveness.
Continue reading “Should I forgive? (Permission to make your own decision)”
When you find yourself coming out the other end of a trial, it can be very tempting to want to scream it from the rooftops to anyone who will listen to you, and that is your right. But it isn’t your responsibility, and for the most part, it isn’t the best idea either.
Continue reading “How do I change others? (And not let them change me?)”
Last year at Thanksgiving, my family sat around a large table in front of a feast of food like we do every year. Before we got stuck in, someone suggested that we go around and say what we were thankful for. Again, like we do every year.
The law of attraction is just the theory that there is an ultimate law in the universe that like attracts like.
Continue reading “The universe isn’t a slot machine (but law of attraction works)”
Life can be stressful. Although we may try to be mindful, spiritual, and so on and so forth, it doesn’t always work out the way we hope. After all, we’re all human.
So when life gets you down (and just keeps on stomping), what can you do to save your sanity? Mental breakdowns are never fun.
Coming from a very Christian background, I have been brought up to be wary of yoga, meditation, and all things similar. I was warned that adopting these practices would land me in hell, but even more so, open me up for spiritual warfare and possession, effectively ruining my life.
Confusingly enough, everyone who had tried these things themselves said nothing of these struggles, even if they no longer participated in these activities, so what gives?
Hating yourself hurts. Unfortunately, it’s become quite normal these days for people to secretly hate themselves.
You think if you could just figure out why you hate yourself in the first place, you could be free of it. And you can. It just doesn’t happen all at once. Continue reading “Why do I hate myself?”
There comes a time in a person’s life where they start to wonder, “do I have a problem? Am I really doing this life thing right?” If you’re in that point, you might be wondering about therapy. What is it, and do you need it?
