The least you can do for yourself is everything. Innocence and perfection were the diamonds that symbolized her. She was a little girl who loved herself through all her imperfections. In what she considered the metaphor of life, she was too busy devouring life to be bothered by things like mistakes and failures that stood …
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Please Stop Telling Empty Platitudes to People Who Are Going Through a Rough Time
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 …
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 To Heal When Painful Emotions Break You
Lesson from the unforgettable painful emotions recovery advice my grandfather gave me. Have you ever wished to expel the demons your painful emotions create in your body? Have you ever wished to shine a light on your painful emotions? Have you ever wished to enter into the room where you’ve locked your painful emotions and …
Don’t Run From Vulnerability – Embrace It
Stop trying to seal your heart. Remaining in emotional solitary confinement costs us. There is a cost to making your heart neatly sealed, safe from the joys and sorrows of life. I never heard my dad talk about his feelings. He never told me he loved me in words. He sucked it all in, where …
Guardians Who See Us Through Our Grief In a Global Pandemic
On people, places, and things that see us in our lowest points Sometimes the most unexpected gesture saves you from drowning in sorrow. Sometimes simple things like the sun rays playing with the golden leaves lessen your grief. You close your eyes and remember loved ones whom you have lost with fondness. These simple things …
6 Ways To Give Self-Compassion a Special, VIP Pass Right Into Your Soul
The least you can do for yourself is everything. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? — Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, 10th C. Jewish Scholar Did you know newborn monkeys crawled to a mother who touched and cradled them instead of running to enticing milk? The well-known …
Counting Your Blessings Might Make You Feel Better in These Troubled Times
Even in the middle of a great struggle, there are things to be thankful for. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” -Rumi Counting your blessings with clear intention might make you feel better in these troubled times. While I would love to grow old with my best …
What To Do To Love Yourself
The least you can do for yourself is everything. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi Give your thoughts weight. Ask yourself, Who am I? What do I want? What do I like? How do I …
The ‘Perfect Happiness Recipe’, According to a Buddhist
Focus on your feelings, not what you’re experiencing. The German-born Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, has a solution to the happiness problem. Imagine an experience that made you happy. Maybe it’s the first time you had fallen in love. Happiness curled your toes when the object of your desire walked into a room and you caught …