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How To Be Open-Minded When Others See the World Differently

By Melissa Pennel in Blog, love & relationships, mindfulness & peace

“Most disagreements are caused by different perceptions that created different realities.” ~Unknown

When I was thirteen, I experienced a monumental change in my young life.

It wasn’t a big move, no one close to me died, and although puberty was rocking my world in the worst way, it was something else altogether that shook me to the core:

The movie Titanic came out.

I know, I know, it’s just a movie, and I was just another swooning teenager wishing that I was the one Jack never wanted to let go of, but it hit me hard. Truth, love, the pain …

Nothing Lasts Forever

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How Embracing My Sexuality Helped Cure My Need to People Please

By Angela Lois in Blog

“If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself.” ~Jocelyn Murray

The love I felt for her wasn’t like the romantic love our culture idealizes in books or movies. There was no moment where I knew that she was the one for me, and I didn’t feel lots of butterflies when our paths crossed.

Instead, the love I felt for her was deep and sustaining. While she is one of the most kind, gentle, and loyal people I had ever met, the way she loved me was the most remarkable thing to me. I could be …

All You Have to Do Is Show Up

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

We Don’t Have to Agree to Be Kind

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How to Make Anxiety A Lot Less Painful

By Lauren Madden in Blog, change & challenges, letting go, mindfulness & peace

“You are not a mess. You are a feeling person in a messy world.” ~Glennon Doyle Melton

Anxiety can be hardwired and genetic. It can be passed down from generation to generation. It can be a result of trauma and high-stress scenarios, including divorce, moving, and death. These things are out of our control, and can be really challenging to work through.

But, anxiety can also come as a result of certain behaviors, lifestyle choices, and beliefs that you have about yourself and the world. And that, my friend, is always within your control.

I want to challenge the …

Be the Kind of Person Who…

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

If It Costs You Your Peace, It’s Too Expensive

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

What It Means to Be Loyal to Yourself and Why We All Need to Do It

By Amaya Pryce in Blog, love & relationships

“This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~William Shakespeare

A little while ago, a friend gave me a compliment that stopped me in my tracks. “I really admire how loyal you are to yourself.”

In time-honored self-questioning mode, I immediately thought, “Oh my gosh, what does that mean? Does she think I’m selfish?” But once I decided not to go down that road, I started pondering what it might mean to be loyal to one’s self, and how it truly is …

I Will Sit with You in the Dark

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Let It Hurt, Let It Heal, Let It Go

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Overcoming a Negative Body Image: 4 Things to Remember

By Petra Scott in Blog, change & challenges, healthy habits

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

“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.” ~Philip Arnold

I really don’t remember my life before anorexia. I think back to my early teenage years when I ate peanut butter sandwiches and drank hot chocolate without a single thought of how many calories I had consumed. There was no guilt, no worry, no need for perfection. How I wish I could get those carefree moments back.

A few years ago anorexia completely …

Autumn Shows Us How Beautiful It Is to Let Things Go

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Just Because It Isn’t Happening Right Now Doesn’t Mean It Never Will

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

We Can Choose Different Ways Without One of Us Being Wrong

By Carl Phillips in Blog, love & relationships

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Many of us are committed to a journey of change and personal growth. While these are traits to be admired and celebrated, they can also have a darker side. We can become a little militant and dogmatic when we’re on our journeys.

As we focus on our attempts to make changes in our own lives, our views can start to narrow and become very black and white. We become so tuned into what …

Book Giveaway: Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal and The Self-Love Experiment

By Lori Deschene in Blog, happiness & fun, mindfulness & peace

UPDATE: The winners for this giveaway are Alexandra Martinez and Kathy Kortegaard.

Happy October, friends! Over the past several months since I launched Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal, I’ve been excited to receive some wonderful feedback on the thought-provoking prompts and questions, and the coloring pages.

I decided to create this journal because adopting a gratitude practice has been life changing for me; it’s shifted my perspective, boosted my mood, and enabled me to hold on to optimism during some of the darkest times of my life.

And I chose to include coloring pages because I’ve been obsessed with adult …