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The Most Powerful Tool for Healing: Tell the Right Stories

By Nadia Colburn in Blog, change & challenges, mindfulness & peace

TRIGGER WARNING: This post deals with an account of sexual abuse and may be triggering to some people.

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of ourselves.” ~David Richo

In my mid-thirties, I had what I experienced as a breakdown.

If you had asked me ten or even twenty years earlier whether I had been sexually abused, I would have said no. But in my mid-thirties, strange and scary memories started surfacing in my body—along with pieces of story and language.

These pieces of memory and my responses to them seemed to glue together …

It’s Easy to Take Sides When You Only Know One of Them

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

What Speaking Kindly to Humans Can Do

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

There Are a Gazillion Little Ways to Be Kind (and It Benefits You Too)

By Sheila Burke in Blog, love & relationships

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” ~Robert M. Pirsig

One day while grocery shopping I was reaching for a head of lettuce when I heard a shrill, high-pitched wail from a few aisles over. It sent shivers up my spine. It was one of those sounds that grabs your breath and pulls it to your heart.

It brought me back to a time I had long forgotten—a memory engrained in my brain from about twenty-two years ago when my children were toddlers. I remember those days of being exhausted and …

No One Is Coming to Rescue You

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

To Reduce Stress, Stop Globalizing and Put Things in Perspective

By Paula Jones in Blog, change & challenges, mindfulness & peace

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” ~Mark Twain

Life happens. And sometimes when life happens, we can get pretty stressed out. I’ve found that the way we view situations can either reduce our stress or make it worse. Here is just one way we aggravate situations, possibly unnecessarily, and how we can adjust our perspective to keep stress in check.

A colleague of mine claims that he is “calendar-challenged.” He is often unable to attend meetings at the last minute or shows up late. I am, by contrast, a planner. I live …

Be the Person Who Cares

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Give Some Love to Yourself

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How to Start Dating from a Place of Self-Love

By Nicole Hind in Blog, love & relationships

“You must learn to love yourself before you can love someone else.” ~Sonja Mylin

It’s tough being out there.

I remember myself some years ago embracing the world of online dating. Everyone kept telling me “be yourself” (and I kept telling myself that), but when I was actually on a date, “myself” would fly out the window.

I’d go hard on the impressing, second-guess myself, drink too much, look for every little thing we had in common (even if the person did not feel right), feel devastated if I was rejected, and utterly lose sight of what I was …

Support Shouldn’t Be a Rare Thing

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

What a True Friend Is

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

I May Not Be Perfect, But I Am Honest, Loving, and Real

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

8 Things I Learned from Watching My Mum Die

By Karen Schlaegel in Blog, change & challenges, letting go, love & relationships

“Pain changes your life forever. But so does healing from it.” ~Kayil York

In 2012 my mum got diagnosed with cancer. After an operation, she was cancer-free for some time when in March 2017 it was discovered that the cancer had returned and had spread everywhere, notably to her lungs.

She was adamant that she did not want further treatment, which would have been palliative at best anyway and would have had significant side effects. Nobody was able to make a prognosis regarding how much longer she had left. Being seventy, there was a chance that it would develop slowly.…

We All Need to Define “Success” for Ourselves

By Pam Bauer in Blog, happiness & fun, meaning & passion

“There’s no such thing as what you ‘should’ be doing with your life.” –Lori Deschene

How often have you thought about what success means to you?

If you’re anything like my younger self, that would be almost never. It’s not that I didn’t want to be successful. It’s just that it wasn’t something I’d given much thought to. No one ever asked me about it or even encouraged me to think about success. I’d just absorbed it from the people and culture around me, watching how they lived and what was important to them.

From what I saw around …

You Have Survived

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

True Happiness Lies in the Things We Do

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

A Simple Practice to Help You Appreciate How Wonderful You Are

By Heather Chase in Blog, love & relationships

“Stop criticizing yourself for everything you aren’t and start appreciating yourself for everything you are.” ~Unknown

Are you your own best friend, your own worst critic, or somewhere in between? Do you tend to focus on what you see as your flaws, mistakes, and imperfections, comparing yourself to others you think are better than you? Sometimes, do you even wish you were someone else?

It’s easy to get trapped in that way of thinking, especially in today’s consumer culture. From magazine ads to TV commercials, we are trained to compare ourselves to others and are subtly told we are not …

Why I Got Caught Up in the Drama of an On-and-Off Relationship

By Monica Viera in Blog, love & relationships

“One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up instead of what they have to gain.” ~Rick Godwin

Dave and I met earlier this January. I was immediately attracted to his aquamarine eyes and his tattoos. I met him on the eve of my twenty-sixth birthday and, based on our interaction, I assumed we’d have a casual fling. Things didn’t end that simply, to my surprise.

When we were lying in bed together that first night, holding hands, he turned to me and asked if there was any chance we could get to …