The search for self love begins when you let go of trying so hard to be perfect. When you let go of one expectation that has been more of a prison than a goal, the first step in your search for self love has commenced. Today, I am happy to introduce a wonderful fellow blogger, […]
Healing is not scary. It is a process of changing perspective. Truth by definition is absolute. It is definitive. It is what it is and that is it. I have come to believe that not much is true in the literal sense. What we think of as truths are most often just idea or perception. It is
Therapeutic documents help me remember what people say. But they are so much more than that. Conversations are easy to forget. I am interested in writing things down that you want to remember. Especially when it comes to helping ourselves dissolve some of the problems in our lives. Writing can be therapeutic in many ways. We can
By definition, affirmation is “a declaration that something is true.” And also known as “a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome.” So how do you write an affirmation that works? But it is not as simple as looking in the mirror and saying “I love you, you are the greatest!” as positive psychology would
When I was in grade school, I went to a memory improvement workshop. The leader taught us four important elements to improving memory skills. They are positive, present tense, repetition, and high emotion. They are hard to write without yelling. The workshop presenter drove it home by having the entire auditorium yelling (high emotion) the
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Do you feel like no one understands what you are going through? There are all these quotations on Facebook that tell us that we just have to “let go” of our feelings and we’ll “feel better.” But when our feelings are so intense and we would give anything to get rid of them, it is
I talk much about taking action in life and acknowledge that we all take action towards a conscious purpose. To illustrate this today I share the skills and knowledge document created at the Reclaiming Your Soul Retreat last month. All of these skills were experienced, named, and described by the participants. It needs no introduction. Skills
How do they do that? Having worked with so many people who have undergone unspeakable trauma, I’ve heard stories of amazing survival skills. It is surprising what we can endure and survive. I think many of us agree that we can’t imagine what it was like to be kept as prisoners in a house for