Posts tagged with “wisdom”
20 Inspiring Gratitude Quotes and Tiny Buddhaās Gratitude Journal Giveaway
Update – the winners for this giveaway are:
- Marc Remington
- Kittenpants13
Hi friends! Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate.
Iām so grateful to all of you who share your experiences and insights on the blog, and to those who you who give your time and energy to help others in the comments and community forums. I am endlessly inspired by your openness, your empathy, and your kindness.
To celebrate this day, I gathered some of my favorite gratitude quotes (mostly from anonymous sources), and Iāve also put aside two copies of Tiny Buddhaās Gratitude Journal for a special …
Why You Need to Embrace “Beginner’s Mind” to Live a Life of Adventure
āThe donāt-know mindā¦ doesnāt fear, has no wish to control or foresee, steps off the cliff of the moment with absolute trust that the next step will land somewhere, and the next step somewhere else, and the feet will take us wherever we need to go.ā ~Byron Katie
I am fifty-five years old. Iāve raised a family, been through two divorces, bought and sold four houses, and had a successful professional career. And right now Iām doing one of the hardest things Iāve ever done, which is learning to host in a busy restaurant.
My coworkers range from mid-twenties to …
How Surfing Helped Me Turn Fear and Anxiety into Confidence
āIf you want to conquer fear, donāt sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.ā ~Dale Carnegie
Not too long ago I went through an extremely chaotic and emotional two-week period. Anything that could go wrong or be difficult did and was. I thought it would never end.
When it began, the little hiccups were easy to let roll off my shoulders. After about a week, I was feeling pretty worn down and was in tears daily. At the end, I felt numb, and when things kept going wrong I would say to myself āSureā¦ Okay ā¦whatās …
How to Enjoy the Holidays When Grieving the Loss of a Loved One
This post contains an excerpt from GETTING GRIEF RIGHT: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss, by Patrick OāMalley, PhD with Tim Madigan.
It was spring 1980 when my wife, Nancy, and I received some of the best news of our livesāshe was pregnant with our first child.
On a Tuesday morning that September, we found ourselves sitting in her obstetricianās office. Nancy, not due to deliver for three months, had been awakened the night before by a strange physical sensation.
She had wanted to get checked out, just to be safe. But after the examination …
Train Your Mind: Overcoming Negative Thoughts Is Half the Battle
āBelieve you can and youāre halfway there.ā ~Theodore Roosevelt
I could not find the bottom of the pool.
The task seemed simple enough: Wearing no more than twenty pounds worth of gear, swim to the bottom of an eight-foot pool, remove your gear, and swim back up.
My feet combed for somethingāanythingāsolid beneath me, to no avail. A shock of fear struck through my veins, clouding my head. Panic. I reached a point of sheer, utter, uncontrollable panic.
Panic is an interesting beast. It is designed to trigger the flight-or-fight mechanism in the human body; it is for survival …
Why I Was Addicted to Attention, Lies, and Drama
Iāve done a lot of things for attention that Iām not proud of. Iāve created drama. Iāve bragged. Iāve exaggerated. Iāve hurt people. Iāve hurt myself. Iāve lied and lied and lied.
No one wants to be labeled as an āattention seeker.ā When people say, āSheās just doing it for attention,ā they donāt mean it as a compliment. I knew this. And I knew that people said these things about me.
And still, I couldnāt stop.
I spend a lot of time around animals, especially cats. Itās easy to see which ones have experienced starvation. They have constant anxiety about …
How Creativity Heals Us and Why Itās a Gift to the World
āCreativity is the way I share my soul with the world.ā ~BrenĆ© Brown
I wrote a poem today for the woman I love(d).
Just a few weeks ago, I fully believed she was the one Iād be with forever. Love forever. My heart was open so deep and wide to her. We talked about marriage and living together in the woods, making art, and being a family.
Then things got tough. We talked, we tried, we read books, jetted our intention out into the universe. But we just couldnāt keep it together.
There was so much pain. But also …
Making the Hurt Visible: How I Stopped Hating the Man and Learned to Listen to Myself
āIgnoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.ā ~Margaret Atwood, The Handmaidās Tale
Weāve just passed the year anniversary of an event that has greatly changed our country. The shock of the election results last year sent waves of powerful emotions rippling through our nation.
Personally, I felt the effects as intense and immediate grief. It was as though I had just lost my dearest companion.
I had days of shock, despair, feelings of intense cold with physical shaking and episodes of vomiting and nausea, followed by weeks of sleepless nights, spontaneous sweating, nightmares …
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