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Tiny Buddha’s Self-Care Course: Buy One, Give One Sale!

As we get older, we tend to get clearer on what matters most to us in life. For me, it’s self-care and relationships. If you share my top values, you’re in luck, because today’s special offer honors both of those things!

In my experience, self-care and relationships have been deeply intertwined—because I’ve found that deep-level self-care reinforces my worth, which enables me to attract and hold onto healthy relationships. Which then inspires me to continue taking good care of myself so I can give the best of myself to the people I love (without losing myself in the process).

This …

8 Ways Life Improves When You Value and Prioritize Yourself

By Lori Deschene in Blog

“Every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, ‘This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!’ And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart, and say, ‘No. This is what’s important.’” ~Iain Thomas

As someone who believes in the healing power of self-care, I absolutely love this quote. But I didn’t always believe it was true. And it didn’t feel good to do it.

My heart was too tender to be touched for long. And …

Stop Being Okay with Things You Really Are Not Okay With

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

An Underrated Blessing

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

Guidance for Growth: How to Forgive and Live Without Regrets

By Brandi Lei in Blog

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” ~Lao Tzu

Once believed to be conflict-free, our relationship disintegrated on a fateful evening in May 2007, revealing the facade of our supposed happiness. We always said, “We’ll be all right because we never fight.” Well, that belief shattered on my dad’s fifty-fourth birthday. What was supposed to be a dinner with my parents turned into a nightmare and marked the beginning of a harrowing ordeal.

My then-husband, bleeding from a head wound after a visit with a friend, turned our evening into chaos. As I attempted to bandage him, unease …

You May Not Always See the Results of Your Kindness

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

I Don’t Want to Be Remembered as a Woman Who Was Always Exhausted

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

If You Think You’re Right All the Time

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

One of the Most Powerful Gifts We Give Our Children

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

How to Comfort the Grieving Without Saying “Sorry for Your Loss”

By Courtney Deane in Blog

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” ~Buddha

“I’m sorry for your loss” is a perfectly acceptable response…if I’ve told you I’ve lost my phone. In that instance, I can appreciate the sentiment, empathy, and authenticity of the phrase. It’s my loss and my loss alone. I know you can put yourself in my shoes and internalize what it would feel like to be without this critical device and, as such, the words carry weight.

When I tell you my parents are dead, though? Maybe not …

Always Give Love, Respect, and Kindness

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

You Don’t Have a Single Thing to Prove

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

On the Days You Only Have 40%

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

You Know Who’s Going Through a Lot Right Now?

By Lori Deschene in Fun & Inspiring

What Forgiveness Really Means and Why It’s the Ultimate Freedom

By Doe Zantamata in Blog

I used to loathe the word “forgiveness.”

What it meant to me was that someone could hurt me, lie to me, or even abuse me, say “sorry,” and I was supposed to pretend like nothing happened. If I didn’t, they would say to me, “I thought you were a forgiving person,” or “What? I already said I was sorry.”

It felt awful, outside and inside.

I had one relationship that I knew very well wasn’t good for me and I wanted out of, but my misunderstanding of what the word “forgiveness” meant kept me stuck there for a very long …