Believing your thoughts: my two cents

   Hi everyone! A while back, I posted about the inner work necessary in order to improve your emotional health. (If you’re interested about my journey with inner work, you can find that post here.) In that piece, I mentioned that I would be writing about specific mental work in the future. Well, wait no longer because that day is today! And today, we’re talking about the validity of our thoughts.

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Where gratitude fails

   I’ve addressed gratitude already on this blog a few times, and rightly so. It’s a transformative practice, because it truly builds a new perspective for you about your life. Now, if you’re interested in hearing an argument for or my journey with gratitude, you can click here and here respectively. But today I’m going to take a little bit different of an approach. Because gratitude, like anything else, is an imperfect practice. And it has its’ limitations. 

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Lazy or scared?

   For as long as I can remember I have avoided doing certain things. Things that have involved a certain level of effort or engagement. I avoided ordering at restaurants, getting up to sharpen my pencil at school, asking for seconds at the dinner table, and practicing new skills. I was called lazy a lot. 

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