They are hollow. Platitudes are words that are used not for connection, but for distancing – to make the person uttering them feel safer. My best friend is in the midst of a crisis right now. She just had a miscarriage. These days, she sinks into sadness too deep for words. She may appear …
Tag: Life Lessons
11 Signs That You Are Suffocating Your Beautifully Crafted Relationship To Death
We kill our relationship in the very hands that carved it. You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach that tells you that you can’t wait to see your love, that you can’t sleep or eat or do anything because you are counting the minutes till you see him again? Is it time …
Here’s How I Healed the Wound of Someone I Loved for 4 Years Cheating On Me
If someone you love cheated on you, this one is for you. The sun had barely crested the horizon when I saw the man I loved for 4 years kissing another woman on the hospital bed. I wanted to unsee what my eyes saw. I averted my eyes and looked out the window at the …
How to Grow From Difficult Emotions
Pay attention to all the colors that form your emotional palette. We assume difficult emotions, mean demons within, shatter us when they suffocate us. We deny these battles we wage daily their right to feel and end up suffering. We forget difficult emotions, when unprocessed, stagnate and fester. They acidify and become corrosive. Difficult emotions, …
How Do You Love?
When you love someone, you choose to see yourself and your partner as separate entities. In healthy love, you are individuals having your own dreams, likes, wants, and needs. You each have your whole lives without the other. You choose to honor what your partner wants even if you don’t want that thing. When you …
What 500 People Shared on Their Best Life Lessons From 2020
8 Takeaways… “What is your best life lesson in 2020?” I outsourced this question. I wanted to get the reader’s insight. I wanted to know what my blog readers have learned from this dark year. My email got swamped with responses from all over the world. My youngest subscriber is 21 years old from South …
Go All In On Gratitude
Because there is always, always something to be thankful for. No matter how good or terrible we have it right now, we must wake up each day thankful for our lives, because someone, somewhere is desperately fighting for theirs. Do you know what loss feels like? I have smelled it. I have sniffed at it. …
Why You Must Find The Unique Value Behind The Work You Do
A compelling value creates the backbone of your passion. I saw a real passion in the backyard of a 55-year old woman’s house. Friends took me outside my city to start the day with the tastiest breakfast I’ve ever had. This woman raises chickens in her backyard. But she doesn’t just feed them and keep them …
How To Be Unforgettable With Writing
Writing helps our names to live beyond the grave. So, who knows? Maybe your name will live beyond the grave. Maybe your words will leave a mark on the world saying, “I was here.” When you read the works of Seth Godin, his words touch your heart and inspire you to change. You can’t help …
Love Is Not What You Want, It Is What You Are
You must give love because you have it to give. Spending time with my grandfather was one of the most memorable moments of my life. He was a charismatic man where he built his home by sharing his love. Month after month, year after year, I had seen the way he loved his wife. I had …