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If You Aren’t Happy with Yourself and Your Life Right Now…

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“For the person that needs to see this today: Your heart will heal, your tears will dry, your season will change. Rest tonight knowing the storm will end.” ~Unknown

When I was fifteen, I officially started engaging in the diet scene. As a teenager who was trying to fit in, feel pretty, and gain acceptance, I thought that food was the fix. Food—or the lack of it—would be the solution to all my problems. All that thought really did was make everything worse.

As a child, I would visit Europe every other year, to visit family. The culture and the …

You Don’t Have to Feel the Same Every Day

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Choose Your Circle Carefully

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You Are Not Responsible for Anyone’s Distorted Perception of You

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I Have No Energy for Hate

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How to Slow Down and Take Care of Yourself

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“You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breath. You are worth the time it takes to slow dow, be still and rest.” ~Morgan Harper Nichols

“It’s great to see you without three laptops and two phones,” my cardiologist quipped. I nodded, remembering how, a year earlier, I’d sat in the ICU tethered to my to-do list while having a heart attack. Even as the doctors were attaching wires and monitors to me, I couldn’t put my laptop down. I believed that everything would fall apart if I stopped to take care of myself.

It had …

Every Single Relationship Will Get Boring

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Changing for Someone and Growing with Someone

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You’ll Never Meet the Same Person Twice

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We Grew Together, Even if We Grew Apart

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Tell Them You Love Them

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You Can Still Succeed

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Life Gets Harder When You Try to Make it Easy

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Why I Love My Anger and How It Can Be a Force for Good

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“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” ~Eckhart Tolle

“I don’t know why I’m so angry,” my mother said.

It was 3 a.m., and my mother was standing outside my door. I had awoken suddenly to hear feet stomping up and down the hallway on one of my last visits to my childhood home before dementia and breast cancer really took hold of her.

“Phht, me either.” I tried to empathize, but inside of me rose my own fear and anger, as my siblings and I had watched her decline over the years, yet at the same time, …

To All the People Who Are Loving and Kind to Me

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The Simple Truth

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So What If You’re Alone Right Now

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And One Day, Just Like That…

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More Hugs, Less Advice

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You May Be the Light

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