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Ignore Your Emotional Needs At Your Own Risk!

Burnout from unmet Emotional Needs is real.  Changes in the world around us demand mental Self-Care. The results showing up in your life today come from your Actions. Your habits are influenced by your thoughts and feelings which are informed by your subconscious belief system. This is IMPORTANT because “normal” is what YOU make it!  …

Why Am I Here?

Can I be brutally honest about something? My parents are the kind of people who probably should never have had children – especially together.  Not that I’m complaining because, as my Dad likes to point out: That means I wouldn’t be here. I spent some serious time trying to re-parent myself as a young adult. …

How Do You Want to Feel?

Losing my job in December was quite an experience. While the sale of the facility I managed wasn’t withheld, I’d convinced myself that my job was safe. Now, delusion is a whole other topic that deserves its own article, but suffice it to say that it took me until the very end to see the inevitable coming. …

Risk: According to Quotes

Risk is a part of life we all have to manage. The uncertainty that accompanies every risk we take has the potential to inhibit action and prevent positive changes. Throughout the ages, many have tried to put into words exactly what risk is and what it means to them. Some have been more successful than …

The Inner Critic and Emotional Freedom

Regardless of if you’re scrolling through your Newsfeed, or skimming another top 10 list, odds are that even if you’re not speaking out loud, you’re still hearing your voice say words. It’s internal speech, another oddity of the human brain. Most of the time your inner monologue simply exists in your head, helping you make …

My 30 Before 30 List

I want a full life. A life filled with adventure, learning, and love. There will always be things that scare me, and reasons for me to feel as if living the way I choose is somehow “less responsible” than living the way the world tells me is the “right” way. But, if I don’t start making changes now, when …

A Look at Critical Thinking

     The saying goes ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. And, boy, is it wrong. Preventative maintenance is a thing for a reason. Cars get routine oil changes. People have annual physicals. Hell, even your favorite websites get facelifts on a regular basis. The same should be said of everyone’s critical thinking skills. At this …

Releasing Inhibitions

     Everyone has some experience with that awkward fear that makes us second guess ourselves.  As an introverted, fat girl, I grew up with a whole slew of body and activity policing in my life.  With the media’s insistent pressure to conform to unachievable standards, it’s becoming increasingly impossible to escape the overwhelming bombardment of “you’re not good enough”. Do you …

Disabling Auto-Pilot: Self- Awareness and Conscious Living

     Self-awareness is a tricky concept. The human brain, pulsating, lazy, tangle of nerves that it is, takes training and exercise before it can turn it’s clever, amazing powers in on itself. For the sake of efficiency, since your brain is constantly being bombarded with sensations from your environment, i.e., the sounds of the ticking clock …