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6 Questions to Help You Love Yourself More When It Feels Impossible
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha
In 2012, self-love became the most important thing in my life. After self-loathing and addiction led me to rock bottom, there was nowhere to go but up. When someone asked me last year how long I’d been on the self-love journey, I counted back from 2012. That’s when I thought it began.
In my old journals, however, I recently found something strange and incredible—my self-love journey started long before I thought it had. Years prior to hitting rock bottom, I’d been having the same …
3 Steps to a Happier Life: Interview with Kristi Ling and Book Giveaway
The winners for this giveaway have already been chosen. They are:
- Stuart Dods
- Sheldon Dwyer
People often tell us we have to choose to be happy, but what they don’t always tell us is how.
How do we choose happiness when we’re dealing with life’s everyday struggles and devastating traumas and tragedies?
How can we choose happiness when we’re grappling with persistent negative thoughts and overwhelming emotions?
What exactly do we need to do—or not do—to overcome our challenges and demons and experience more joy in our daily lives?
Tiny Buddha contributor Kristi Ling, a renowned happiness strategist and …
When You Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Past Relationships
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~Jon Kabat- Zinn
Over the years I’ve talked to a lot of people about that one love, the one who got away, the one who it didn’t work out with, the one with whom the timing was bad.
I’ve had these conversations with people from all age groups, including people in their seventies. I’ve had my own journey with all of the above as I traveled toward finding a life partner.
It seems whether you stay together or not you’ll likely be in each other’s minds for quite some …
Meeting Grief with Mindfulness: How Embracing Pain Opens the Door to Joy
“We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.” ~Mary Oliver
Mindfulness is a way of relating to our experience that opens us to the totality of it—that is, we learn to embrace it all, the joy and the heartache. But some experiences are harder to be with.
It’s difficult to be with physical or emotional pain, and we often retreat to the mind in search of distractions. But when we are able to fully be with our experience, something that feels like magic happens.
It …
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