I Always Rise
Reading time: 5 minutes To see me, a nearly 60-year-old woman in ill-fitting clothes, no style to my hair, most of my teeth missing, sagging skin, living in a trashy trailer in a trashy trailer park, you might write me off as a nobody, or a failure. But the…
A Harmful Or Healthy Social Comparison?
Reading time: 4 minutes In my previous blog “Understand Your Worth – How You Value Yourself,” I talked about the topic of how much the society places value on outward appearances when defining one’s success, whereas little consideration is given to the inner values of a person, and that…
Understand Your Worth – How You Value Yourself
Reading time: 5 minutes Little consideration is given to the inner values of a person when defining one’s success, such as integrity, kindness, love, forgiveness, emotional intelligence and inner balance. In contrast, an excessive value is placed on the outward appearances of success by society, such as money, material…
If You Get Tired, Learn To Rest
Reading time: 7 minutes Our lives have become so packed, so busy, so noisy, and so full of conflict. At the end of the day, we feel drained, cranky and overly judgemental. Some of us numbly pace through our days not knowing how out of balance we are, finding…
How To Rise In The Face Of Job Termination
Reading time: 8 minutes Me Fired Like Oprah Winfrey? Never! Losing a job is a major life event. The thought of losing a job gives most of us a sick feeling deep in the pit of the stomach. The loss of benefits, wages and how we will support our…
Opposites Attract, But Similarities Bind
Reading time: 5 minutes This blog post is inspired by a comment on my previous post “The Law Of Attraction – You Attract What You Are”. In the comment, it is mentioned that “opposites attract more than what you are or what is similar to you.” Now, I’m a…
Changed By Faith
Reading time: 6 minutes I find life to be consistently inconsistent. Change is the norm. Look outside your window, take a stroll down the street, you’ll witness that nature is always transitioning. Whether you have extreme or stable seasons, they still experience their own cycles of birth, growth, development,…
Finding Balance In Our Impatience
Reading time: 5 minutes Have you ever taken the pizza out of the oven two minutes early because you just couldn’t wait? Or left lines that were barely moving, only to get into an even slower one? Or breaking up a good healthy relationship because you weren’t sure where…
The Contrast Of Loving Your Job
Reading time: 5 minutes Author and anthropologist David Graeber mentioned in his book ‘Bullshit Jobs’, that today’s work features a lot of needless busywork and it’s preventing people from making a meaningful contribution to the world. Maybe the modern quest for future unemployment comes from the fact that many…
Achieve True Transformation By Harnessing Your Inner Power
Reading time: 5 minutes My life has been a series of small but pivotal changes. Some changes were external, bringing encouraging but temporary results. The most lasting changes were those I initiated from within, invisible to anyone on the outside. This taught me that true transformation occurs when you…
From Depression to Optimism
Reading time: 6 minutes How Change Found Me Change found me on the bathroom floor, begging my husband to let me die. I’d done all of the right things. Went to school. Got good grades. Graduated from a university. Landed a steady job with great benefits. I’d even gotten…
The Law Of Attraction – You Attract What You Are
Reading time: 4 minutes The Law of Attraction, I have been fascinated by it for a long time and I rarely come across people who are fully aware of how much the Law of Attraction impacts their day to day life. Regardless of when we do things consciously or…