Category Archives for "Self-Care"
“Accept yourself. Love yourself as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing comes when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it as you would sunshine.” ~ Melodie Beattie
Continue readingSee if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge ~ Eckhart Tolle
Continue readingThere are numerous reasons why we start feeling emotionally overwhelmed, so I will focus on just one potential cause. We change too many tires. Everyone gets flat tires as they go through life. If the road we’re traveling on in this life is particularly rough and full of nails and potholes, we’ll likely have abundant flat tires. And they’re our own responsibility to take care of, no one else’s…
Continue readingHave you suffered from anxiety or had a loved one suffering from anxiety? While there are many techniques and strategies to deal with anxiety, we first need to understand the difference between fixing and healing anxiety. The following is an excerpt from Corinne Zupko’s book From Anxiety to Love…
Continue reading“Don’t get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn’t even exist in the first place.” – Jayson Engay
Continue readingReleasing the resentments that our minds create entails forgiving people who disappointed or betrayed or even violated us. And ultimately we need to learn how to replace those resentments with gratitude. Why not? If we are walking, breathing, and thinking, if we got out of bed this morning, if we had food to eat today, if there is one person in our lives who listens to us, if we have roofs over our heads this evening, then there are things to be grateful for….
Continue reading“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds… Claim and consciously use your power.” – Louise L. Hay
Continue readingYou may have heard the story of Kris Carr, an actress and photographer who discovered on Valentine’s Day, 2003, that her liver was riddled with cancerous lesions. She was told there was no cure for this rare type of cancer (I’ll shorten the never-ending technical name to EHE) and that at best the treatments would only stave off the inevitable….
Continue reading“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” ~ Stacey Charter
Continue readingWe’re all living with emotional pain — often deep pain — and whether or not we do it consciously, many of us bury much of it inside. Where it feeds freely on our potential for happiness. Where it keeps us from opening up to the breadth of our truth. Where it prevents us from living within the beauty of our freedom. Buried but present. Always present….
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