How our Thoughts are Responsible for Creating our Emotions. It is estimated that humans are capable of 10,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day. This estimate may seem difficult to comprehend (unless you’re like many of us and you’re an over-thinker.) The majority of these thoughts stay in our sub-conscious mind, so we are not fully…
Part One I used to think I was self-aware. I used to think I had a pretty good grasp on who I was until I set out on a journey to manage my emotional and mental health and quickly discovered that not only was I not self-aware, I didn’t completely understand what self-awareness meant. A…
And Why It’s Never Too Late To Save Yourself! I used to believe that chronic anxiety was something I had to live with and didn’t question it. It was my affliction, something I had to endure. Anxiety had become a big part of who I was, and I hid it away as carefully as I…
Even in the depths of depression, love wins.
There was a time, not too long ago, when hearing unpleasant news felt like being buried beneath an emotional avalanche. Watching the evening news or seeing a social media post on destruction, death, or abuse filled me with so much emotion that my body took on a heaviness I couldn’t escape. Within minutes I felt…
“We can only experience the true beauty of vulnerability when we’re courageous enough to crack open the fractures in our mask and allow the light to shine in.” I wrote these words several years ago as a reminder to stay open. To embrace vulnerability when I struggled to share the truth for what would eventually…
And The Lessons I Learned I used to love opening a new journal this time of year. It always felt like a new beginning, full of hope and possibilities. An opportunity to make this year the year I was finally going to be organized, grateful, eat healthier, exercise, or whatever big resolution I had going…
Can their relationship last? Loving a Toxic Controller can come at a price. Sometimes that price is so high that it seems almost impossible for the People Pleaser to recover. Have you ever witnessed a relationship between two people that seems doomed from the start yet despite the buckets of tears and numerous breakups, they…