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I Didn’t Know How to Let Love In… Until Now

By Lynn Reilly in Blog, love & relationships

“You open your heart knowing there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.” ~Bob Marley

A few months ago I was visited by my mother in a dream; my deceased mother who took her own life thirty years ago.

In my dream, I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom thinking about my teenage daughter, who is around the same age I was when my mother died. I felt like my daughter was in distress, and I wanted to help her.

As …

Sometimes Everything Hits You All at Once

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Everything Seems to Be Falling Apart… Because It Is

By Anonymous in Blog, change & challenges, meaning & passion

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch, but in its own wings. Always believe in yourself.” ~Unknown

If you’ve ever stopped and thought, “What the hell am I doing?” or “How did I end up here?” believe me when I tell you that you are one of many—including me.

Feeling lost is stressful enough, but what about when we disappoint ourselves more than anyone around us? What do we do when we have no sense of direction or purpose, and dwindling confidence in ourselves?

I …

I Keep Going

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How Empaths Can Stop Sacrificing Their Needs for Other People

By Benjamin Fishel in Blog, love & relationships

“Sometimes you don’t realize you’re actually drowning when you’re trying to be everyone else’s anchor.” ~Unknown

Have you ever felt trapped?

No, actually, have you ever felt absolutely paralyzed? Like you’re fearful of making any choices at all? It feels like any step you take could end in utter catastrophe.

Five years ago, that was me.

I was living in a small, run-down house in Peru, in a city that I didn’t want to be in, far away from family and friends, and I was in a relationship that wasn’t working.

At the time I worried that any decision I …

Empathy Has No Script

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

When People Want to Help but Just Make Things Worse

By Kirsten Schowalter in Blog, change & challenges, love & relationships

When I was fourteen years old, my family spent a week of vacation in the northwoods of Minnesota. We rode horses, sailed on the lake, sang songs around a campfire, and all the other things most teenagers tell their parents is lame. Even if they are having fun.

After this week of boring, according to me, my family loaded up into our van and began what should have been a five-hour drive home.

Except it wasn’t five hours.

Thirty minutes into the drive we were in a head-on car collision. Triaged and transported to different hospitals around the area, it …

Meaningful Connection: The Gift And Challenge Of Being An HSP In Love

By Hannah Brooks in Blog, love & relationships

“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” ~Guy Finley

I used to be married to a very kind man with similar values and goals in life. So why did we end up divorced?

In one word? Communication.

Like so many other highly sensitive people (HSPs) I thrived on meaningful, deep communication. I lived for it. I sought it out. And, when at ease, I was good at it.

Unless he wasn’t. Which was often. When he was shut down, couldn’t articulate what was going on for him, or had nothing to say …

Sometimes the Best Therapist Has Fur and Four Legs

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

When Other People Treat You Poorly, Keep Being You

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How to Move Forward When You’re Out of Work and Feeling Lost

By Tazeem Weljie in Blog, change & challenges, work fulfillment

“My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.” ~Richard Branson

Let’s face it, losing a job sucks! Over the last couple of months, I have been chatting with friends who have recently been affected by organizational changes resulting in being out of work involuntarily. This is a situation all too familiar to millions of people, frequently through no fault of their own. Often it’s a result of an economic downturn, restructuring, acquisitions, and cost savings.

A couple of years …

Be an Encourager

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How Often Cope by Projecting

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

If You Didn’t Come from a Healthy Family

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Sometimes You Have to Walk Away

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How I Found Hope and Inspiration After Years of Quiet Desperation

By Jamie Hannigan in Blog, change & challenges

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” ~Henry David Thoreau

How many years do we live with a sense of quiet desperation, faking the connection we have with ourselves? Why do we deny ourselves authentic living and exchange our time for mindless living?

Over the years, life silently and slowly eroded my identity away. By the time my son was twelve years old, I’d completely lost touch with reality. I was always busy trying to be everyone’s hero and creating this perfect little world around me. While juggling the …

Your Circle Should Want to See You Win

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

One of the Happiest Moments in Life

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How I Started Enjoying My Alone Time Instead of Feeling Lonely

By Lesa Ashlea Rankin in Blog, mindfulness & peace

“The only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.” ~Bessel A. van der Kolk

Learning to be alone as an adult has been a struggle for me. It’s taken quite a while for me to adjust to spending periods of time by myself. It may sound strange to those who know me because I am most definitely an introvert and need my quiet time. However, my time alone was never quite as satisfying as I’d hoped it would be.

Often my solitude …