healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Stop Placing the Blame
When something goes wrong in your life, it is incredibly easy to blame other people for any role that they might have played in it. It can be frustrating and upsetting when things go badly or don’t work out the way that you wanted them to. By no means should that ever mean that you need to start pointing fingers and looking for someone to blame for the wrongs in your life.
By Taryn Thomas7 years ago in Motivation
The Sycamore House Chronicles, Pt. 1
It’s the end of November 2017. I am moving into Sycamore House, an 1896 late-Victorian in a small river town in rural Pennsylvania. I am moving alone, from a beautiful farm where I left the ghosts of the previous 15 years. I’ve lost people. My grandma, who raised me and spent the last 11 years of her life with me, has passed on. I am recently divorced after 25 years of marriage. I’ve lost the future I had planned and worked toward. The losses, and the break with the person I was before they happened, have nearly killed me. In fact, they have. This person walking through the door of this old house is a resurrected me, back from the brink of suicidal despair. Sycamore House has endured years of emptiness. It needs renovation. We are on the same journey, the house and I, together. This is our story.
By Liz Zimmers7 years ago in Motivation
I Lost My Colon. Now, I'm a Surfer
My husband recently took a surf lesson. We’ve been surfing together for three years, but he was getting frustrated with not knowing why he wasn’t catching as many waves as he thought he should be. I was in the water as well during his lesson, and overheard his instructor tell him this; “Sometimes you just have to go for it and the wave will either accept you, or it won’t.”
By Cody Maher7 years ago in Motivation
The Day I Discovered Me
I write not as someone who has great academic merits bestowed on her but as a humble, fragile girl, who for most of her life has struggled with self-love. This deficiency has taken me to many dark places. It has caused me to act out of fear and make decisions that are fear-based instead of making ones which were right and that caused me to experience many chaotic moments. This lack of self-love has led me to pursue one-sided love affairs because I felt that I was not able to be loved on my own merit because there really wasn't anything special about me, so I had to buy love and work very hard at trying to make people love me.
By Shelly-ann Shaw7 years ago in Motivation
My Battle With Bumps
At the age of 11, I had my first breakout, and by 13 I was on medication for full blown cystic acne. I tried Proactiv, Curology, day creams, night creams, every face wash you could think of, prescription oral medication, Proactiv again, dieting, prescription topical creams, Curology again, working out and dieting combined, oral medication, and prescription topicals combined, and anything else you could ever think of that would get rid of the bumps on my face. And yet, not one single thing completely took it away.
By Megan Borgholthaus7 years ago in Motivation
How You Can Turn Guilt and Self Hatred into a Superpower, and a Road to Self Forgiveness
Are you feeling guilty for something you have done? It may be a small thing that your mind is blowing out of proportion. It may even be something big and unforgivable. Well firstly, feeling guilty for it already shows you are a good person. The fact that you have self reflection is something to love about yourself already, as there are many people who do not have the ability to obtain it, and cannot become a better person and properly atone because of its absence.
By The Neon Hunter7 years ago in Motivation
The People Pleaser's Guide to Setting Boundaries
For a big chunk of my life, I struggled with healthy boundaries. Mainly because I had no idea what they looked like. I grew up in an abusive house and was quickly dismissed and punished for asking what I wanted or needed.
By Emily Stroia7 years ago in Motivation
How to Forgive Someone You Hate
If you ask a room full of strangers what forgiveness means to them, you will hear a diverse collective of replies. "Letting go and moving on""Not forgiving is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die""Peace of mind""Letting go of the anger"
By Emily Stroia7 years ago in Motivation
The Tsunami-ed Life (Part 4)
Grief and sorrow, anger and rage, joy and love, disbelief and denial, relaxation and relief, all emotions that can come as a result of a tsunami (yes, joy and love because even the birth of your first child is a tsunami). Emotion is the foundation of the tsunami-ed life actually, the reason you experience what you experience. And they will arrive in a wide range of experiences and on a schedule that is utterly their own. You have no say, no control as to when they arrive (or leave), you can only respond when they show up however they choose to.
By Jessica Circe7 years ago in Motivation
How to Love Yourself
The empty feeling, the sadness it brings along with it. The image of me floating off to outer space, floating off to blackness, as still as the space holds me, looking at nothing but emptiness. Nowhere to go, no one to find me. Lost and confused. How could that be? That’s ok, I’m comfortable. It’s a comfortable feeling, I finally feel comfortable. But why am I so sad? Why am I so sad when I’m comfortable?
By yuk7 years ago in Motivation
