Posts tagged with “wisdom”
How Boundaries Help You Stay True to Yourself (And Two Practices to Try Today)
“The more you value yourself, the healthier your boundaries are.” ~Lorraine Nilon
I want to talk about the direct correlation between boundaries and self-love. Because when we truly love ourselves and have a healthy self-worth and self-concept, setting boundaries becomes a natural extension of that.
Without boundaries, we either become walled off and protect ourselves from others, which creates a sense of deep isolation and loneliness, or we become enmeshed with others. We often find ourselves living on their side of the street, working overtime to manage, fix, caretake, or be needed by them, all while neglecting ourselves and our …
The Hidden Reasons Youâre Stuck (And What to Do When Conventional Advice Fails)
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” ~M. Scott Peck
Have you ever been in a situation or a stage in your life where youâve felt physically stuck, as if youâve fallen into some kind of invisible quicksand that you canât get out of?
Or maybe itâs felt more like you have a thick, invisible elastic …
How I Embraced Alcohol-Free Living: 4 Things That Made It Easier
âWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.â ~Abraham Maslow
A few years ago I decided to take a break from alcohol, and I also decided I would probably be lonely, miserable, and boring for the duration of my break.
Iâd allowed a lot of social conditioning to affect me, and I was sure people who didnât drink either had no friends, had hit a drastic rock-bottom, or had no fun. I didnât know if I was going to find happiness or even contentment on the other side of my drinking career, and …
Are You Outgrowing Your Family? 6 Effective Ways to Manage This
âYou canât force anyone to value, respect, understand, or support you, but you can choose to spend time around people who do.â ~Lori Deschene
I always felt somewhat different from my family growing up.
I didnât have a terrible childhoodâI was certainly loved, cared for, and looked afterâbut despite having two siblings, a mother, and a stepfather (who raised me), I seldom felt a sense of belonging and often times I felt very lonely.
Growing up I could never quite put my finger on what it was that was different, but I just knew that I was. I knew …
3 Things to Do if Youâre Wondering: Why Canât I Just Be Happy?
Do you sometimes see people running around enjoying life and wonder what youâre missing? Sometimes I used to think I must be a horrible person. I had so many things going for me, and I still couldnât be happy. I would ask myself, is there something wrong with me? Am I a narcissist?
Then sometimes I would decide I was just going to be happy. I would fake it until I made it and just accept thatâs who I was. But it wouldnât take long for me to feel overwhelmingly depressed.
I had a little dark hole that would …
Releasing Fascia: A Simple Way to Reduce Tension, Pain, and Disease
âTake care of your body, itâs the only place you have to live.â ~Jim Rohn
I hear this happens to so many, but when it happens to you, itâs unsettling. I didnât know what was going on with me, and I wasnât getting any satisfying answers either.
Most days were good, and I felt fine and went about my regular routine wearing my many hats: mother of two young kids, human mom to three fur babies, a household-manager-of-all-the-things and full-time dental hygienist. And then out of the blue, it could hit me like a ton of bricks⊠the backache, neck …
4 Things to Try When You Want Change but Donât Know What to Do
“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.” ~Paul Arden
For a year and a half, I could feel a career shift coming. I had worked hard to cultivate a career I loved, but I began feeling disconnected from my work. The meaning I had originally felt from it was no longer there. Each time I started a new project, I felt tired and unmotivated.
At first, I thought it might be burnout. So I took a few weeks off to see if I could reset myself into feeling excited about …
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