It’s Halloween! It’s okay to use today as an excuse to express yourself. Halloween has a lot of meaning and history. As many people know, Halloween started as the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. It was believed that this was the day that the veil between the living and the dead was thinnest so theContinueContinue reading “Costumes and Self-Expression”
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That Thief Named Fear
Is your fear keeping you locked up and preventing you from living a fulfilling life? Fear and anxiety can prevent us from living lives that are meaningful and fulfilling. Someone who is socially anxious may feel isolated and wish for ways to spend more time with others. Dealing with trauma can lead to a significantContinueContinue reading “That Thief Named Fear”
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But I just don’t want to…
Let’s talk about motivation. Motivation is like a muscle. It can be made stronger and it can disappear depending on how you work at it. The image of my daughter’s doll face down just screams “I don’t feel like it, I give up” This is one of my daughter’s toys and it just spoke toContinueContinue reading “But I just don’t want to…”
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Is your idea store closed?
Boredom, Creativity, and Sense of Self A recent Pearls Before Swine comic strip used the above image to make a point about writing. For me, it brought up thoughts about how stuck we often feel in today’s culture. How inadequate and unable and lost we feel. With so many ways to distract ourselves today, it’sContinueContinue reading “Is your idea store closed?”
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Self-acceptance lessons from Disney’s Encanto
Warning: spoilers ahead! Encanto teaches us that it’s important to challenge tradition and others’ expectations. Sometimes it’s necessary to shake up the status quo to find yourself so you can be yourself. This is especially seen in Isabella’s song “What else can I do” as she realizes her efforts to maintain the perfect image expectedContinueContinue reading “Self-acceptance lessons from Disney’s Encanto”
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Empowered and Struggling Blog
Hands carved from downed trees, reaching for each other (Heidelberg, Germany) They are beautiful but the image made me sad thinking how they are just out of each other’s reach, always longing but never able to actually hold each other. Sadness is normal! Welcome to the hot mess that is life. I hope to helpContinueContinue reading “Empowered and Struggling Blog”
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Struggling is not failing
Meme using The Office whiteboard #StrugglingNotFailing The definitions of “empowered” and “struggling” are important to understand as we move forward. Being empowered is something we build up to, it is not something that is inherent in all people and it is not easy to attain. It is also fluid and changing, we can feel empoweredContinueContinue reading “Struggling is not failing”
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