Tag: Self-Love
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Breaking the Chains, Rewriting the Narrative
When we pin our happiness upon someone or something outside of us, that someone or something hijacks our opportunity to love ourselves fully and completely because we depend on someone else to do it for us rather than taking responsibility. Until they no longer “love us”, and then we find ourselves crying into a never-ending…
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The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have
What kind of relationship do you have with yourself? Do you have high, unattainable expectations for what you can achieve? Do you criticize yourself for how you look, the choices you’ve made, or the goals you haven’t attained? Do you put yourself last? Do you ignore your own needs until you have a physical (illness),…
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What If In Order to Come Together, We First Have to Fall Apart?
Imagine at birth, you were given all of the pieces of a puzzle that you needed to become the best version of you. Imagine then throughout your life, that you learned to hide some of the pieces because you didn’t think they would help you fit in. Perhaps you took pieces from others that you believed would help…
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Are You the Good Girl or the Rebel?
If you had asked me several years ago if I identified more with the good girl or the rebel, I likely would have said the good girl, hands down (with a few exceptions). My need to “be the good girl” came from 1) a deep desire to avoid conflict at all costs (because it made…
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“Heaven Let Your Light Shine” Through
A well-used, worn piece of cracked pottery is still beautiful when the light is allowed to filter through its cracks and chips. Imagine an ancient water jug that has cracks and chips, where the paint has faded and the shine has worn away from over-use. When we look at it, we can appreciate how it…
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Love Is All We Need…..
Earlier this year, I was a guest on the Mystic Nerd Squad podcast (take a listen HERE) and while we jumped around a bit from topic to topic, I think and I hope, that the overall message was that LOVE is key to reconnecting to our Joy. Now, some of you may be wondering – does…
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