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You are attracting experiences greater than you could ever predict. There are connections and opportunities beyond what you think is possible right now. Life has a way… Continue Reading
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Preventing Burnout: 5 Small Ways to Boost Your Energy
I don't know about you, but this is the time of year where I feel like I can actually slow down and catch my breath. The start of a new year is full of promise, resolutions or not. And we tend to make it an opportunity to start fresh, and practice better habits.
It's also a time where we can address burnout.
It's completely normal to feel tired, run down or like you need a break after the hectic holidays - travelling, spending time with family, missing someone who is not in your life any more - there is a lot to contend with!
But if you notice your tiredness goes well beyond the normal - you may be dealing with burnout, or approaching it.
The good news is that there is something you can do about it. And this is a great time of year to go back to basics and reset any bad habits that got you here…
Release Your Guilt: 8 Practical Ways to Stop Feeling Bad
Whether we’ve hurt someone’s feelings or made a major mistake, feeling guilty usually means we feel responsible for something going wrong. Yet, this isn’t the only reason guilt happens.
Sometimes, we experience a “guilt complex” when our life is going great but the people we care about are struggling. Guilt may also arise from mental health disorders, such as anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. And guilt is one of those feelings that can be tricky to navigate or figure out.
You might wonder whether or not you should feel guilty, amongst other things.
And this doesn’t mean guilt isn’t helpful. Guilt can often direct us to take responsibility and make amends for the error of our ways. However, persistent guilt isn’t healthy. It can also become mixed with shame, including feeling ashamed of who we are.
So, let’s dig into this and help you get out of that rut of guilt and shame. How can you…
A Life Shaped by Love
"Relearning Love"
For many of us, we grew into the idea that love was something you experienced through another person. It arrived through romance, chemistry, intensity, and being chosen. If love wasn’t attached to a relationship, it felt incomplete, like something was missing.
I didn’t even think to question that belief for years. It was reinforced everywhere I turned.
Love was framed as a feeling that swept in and changed your life, something dramatic and unmistakable, and if you didn’t have that, you were told to keep looking.
What I’ve come to realize is how narrow that definition was.
When love is reduced to romance, it becomes conditional, depending on timing, availability, mutual desire. It comes and goes, and when it’s absent, it can leave you feeling lost at sea, as if love itself is scarce.
Love, at its core, isn’t a feeling you fall into, it’s a way of being.
Love is the posture you take toward the world. It’s attention, care and integrity. It’s how you move through your days when no one is watching, how you respond when things are inconvenient, how you treat yourself when you’re tired or disappointed.
Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to prioritize being loved over being loving. We were measuring love by how chosen we felt, how desired, how important we were to someone else. In doing so, we outsourced love to external validation instead of recognizing it as something we could embody.
Being a loving person is quieter than grand gestures or constant warmth. It looks like honesty, patience and staying aligned with your values even when no one is rewarding you for it.
Romantic love can be meaningful and beautiful, but it isn’t the only place love exists, and it isn’t the measure of whether your life is full. Love doesn’t belong to one relationship or one season of life.
It isn’t something you wait for.
It isn’t something you earn.
Love is something you practice.
When you begin to see love this way, it stops feeling rare, and instead becomes something already present regardless of your relationship status or circumstances.
Love should carry you, not complete you.
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Today's Affirmation
I have an infinite source of strength within me.
I accept each moment as it unfolds, without trying to control or judge it.
I have the courage to stand in my truth… Continue Reading
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