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The Magic of Rewriting Our Most Painful Stories

By Cerise Knight in Blog, change & challenges, letting go, love & relationships

“When you bring peace to your past, you can move forward to your future.” ~Unknown

It amazes me how things that happen in our childhood can greatly impact our adult lives. I learned the hard way that I was living my life with a deep wound in my heart.

My father was a very strict man with a temper when I was little, starting when I was around seven years old.

He had a way of making me feel like all my efforts were not enough. If I scored an 8 in a math exam, he would say, “Why 8 …

Don’t Give People So Much Power That…

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How to Stop Procrastinating When Things Feel Hard or Scary

By Sandy Woznicki in Blog, change & challenges

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~Louise L. Hay

I dreamed of starting my own business for years. Ten years, exactly.

While there are a few reasons it took so long to take the plunge, procrastination is at the top of the list.

It’s hard work to change careers, uncomfortable to leave a steady paycheck, and nerve-wracking to think of failure.

Even after spending months and years learning, studying, and getting certified, when it was no longer a matter of having the skills, the uncertainty of success …

Avoid People Who Mess with Your Head

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Congruent Depression: What It Is and How to Overcome It

By Jade B in Blog, change & challenges

“Not all of the depression that people experience is an illness… Unlike clinical depression, congruent depression is actually appropriate to your situation.” ~Dr. K

Every day is the same. Every day I’m stiff. Every day I’m tired. These are the two main things that people with fibromyalgia deal with. It’s been like that for a couple of years now. Six to be exact.

I’ve faced so much hardship all at one time: no job, no income, no friends, dealing with an emotionally immature/narcissistic mother, and not living where I want to live. All of this is making me sleep poorly.…

I Don’t Care About Wrinkles and Grey Hair

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Let Go of What You Can’t Change

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

10 Quotes You Need to Read If You Struggle with Anxiety

By Lori Deschene in Blog, change & challenges, letting go

Have you ever received well-intentioned advice while facing intense anxiety, only to feel judged, misunderstood, or condescended?

Like, “Calm down!” Or “Just be positive!” Or “Don’t worry so much!”

The people who try to help generally want to do just that, but it’s always easier to advise someone when you’re not feeling what they’re feeling, because you have the benefit of rational thought—which goes out the window when fight-or-flight mode takes over.

And if you’ve never felt the depth of anxiety some of us experience—perhaps because you weren’t conditioned that way through trauma, or you’ve learned to block or …

Always Believe in Yourself

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

The Cages We Live In and What It Means to Be Free

By Afsheen Shah in Blog, change & challenges, letting go

“Cages aren’t made or iron, they’re made of thoughts.” ~Unknown

I recently read Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, and like many who have read it, I felt as if it had changed my life—but not because it made me think of all the things I was capable of (as was the case with many of friends who read it), but because it made me realize how capable I had already been.

The book on the whole is beautiful and inspiring, but the part that stuck with me the most was the story about Tabitha, a beautiful cheetah that Glennon and her …

Tomorrow Could Be Your Best Day

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

When People We Love Die: How to Honor Their Legacies and Lessons

By Lana Goes in Blog, letting go, love & relationships

“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” ~Irving Berlin

I never went for any of my grandparent’s funerals as a young child, and honestly, I was secretly glad that I didn’t. I was too young to comprehend what death felt like, and I don’t think I had the strength in me to do so. So, when I heard about their deaths, I told myself stories that they had gone on an extended vacation and were having loads of fun, and hence we couldn’t see them.

This story played in my mind all through the years, and that’s what …

The Reason Why Some People Are So Kind

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

If It Takes All You Have Just to Get Through the Day

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Why I Now Believe Everyone Is Doing the Best They Can

By Liv W. in Blog, change & challenges, love & relationships

“You just never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. No matter how happy someone looks, how loud their laugh is, how big their smile is, there can still be a level of hurt that is indescribable. So be kind. Even when others are not, choose to be kind.” ~Andrea Russett

Everyone is doing the best they can. When they can do better, they will.

“I disagree,” you say. “I see people who are not doing their best all the time!”

Before the year 2006, I had a ton of complaints about the world and the people around …

You Don’t Need to Pretend to Be Okay When You’re Not

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

4 Ways to Overcome Alienation and Loneliness

By Kimberly Hetherington in Blog, change & challenges, love & relationships, work fulfillment

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own life? Watching other people like you were separated by some invisible wall?

Most of us have felt it from time to time and understand all too well how detrimental loneliness can be if it doesn’t go away. In fact, research has shown that loneliness is worse than smoking or obesity to a person’s health.

Yet we …