Tag: mindfulness
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The World Feels Like a Dumpster Fire — Here’s How to Take Care of Yourself Anyway
It’s hard to ignore it. The constant stream of bad news, division, uncertainty. The feeling that no matter where you look, something is burning — and not in a way that brings light or warmth. It’s exhausting to exist in a world that feels like it’s always on edge. Calling it a “dumpster fire” might…
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Proof that hard seasons end
There’s a morning every spring where I get up for my daily walk and there’s a noticeable difference in the air, today was that day. There is usually still snow piled along the driveway, although most of it has melted here on the east coast where I live. Mornings still bite a little when you…
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Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Tries to Forget
We like to think that when something bad happens, we can just “move on.” We tell ourselves, it’s in the past, I was overreacting, or I shouldn’t feel this way. But in reality, your body remembers. Even if your mind tries to reason it away, even if you tell yourself it “wasn’t that big of…
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How I finally learned my worth
Photo credit: Jordyn Day It took me far longer than I care to admit to finally like who I am and celebrate my worth. It wasn’t until I was in my very late 30’s that I started to see that I was a good person who deserved to be happy. Codependency taught me to look…
The Other Side of Nice 