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7 Myths About Depression that Must be Laid to Rest
Despite the growing awareness of mental health, a number of myths still stubbornly persist. I’m struggling right now, coming off antidepressant medication after five years isn’t easy, and I know that I...
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Boundary Master or Disaster? (Take the Quiz)
In this week’s episode, we are bringing the boundary conversation a little closer to home. So let me start with a question: Are you a Boundary Master or Disaster? When you think about drawing...
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Storms …
You are amazingly positive. You take both inner and outer action to co-create your dreams. You are consistent with your mediation, journaling, exercise, healthy eating, creative endeavors and...
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7 Brilliant Books About the Nature of Creativity
For sparking my own creativity, I find people’s descriptions of their own creative processes more useful (and certainly more interesting) than books that analyze creativity or suggest creativity...
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How You Might Be Harming Someone with Your Empathy
I’ve just revealed something about my life to someone I’m getting to know. “That must be so amazing for you!” she replies. The truth is I feel really complicated about it. Yep, parts of it are amazing....
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How Compassion is a Better Response to the Subject of Addiction
My addiction was quiet. Most of my family didn’t know, and still don’t, about my issues with drugs. Many very close friends of mine don’t know the full story. I didn’t go to treatment, and I didn’t...
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Anxiety In A Chaotic World: Acceptance, Healing And Hope
Weight of the World There’s a lot of anxiety in the world right now. Worry about the future, violence, uncertainty, hardship, and justice occupy our minds. Though it makes perfect sense that we would...
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What Has the Number 4 Got to Do with Being the Successful Creator of Your Life?
The Path of Creation Never Did Run Smooth! An idea comes to you, perhaps in the early hours of the light dawning, it whispers in your ear, stirs your soul, and breathes you awake. You wake up, wide,...
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Give Yourself and Others Room to Grow
There is one essential ingredient missing in most of our relationships — one that is definitely required if we wish to continue in our own development and help others to do the same. What is this...
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Are You Hearing What You Want to Hear, or Are You Listening to the Universe...
In learning and exploring philosophies like ‘new thought,’ it’s great to discover how much is already aligned with my belief system. And whether it’s personal or faith based, or just living and...
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3 Habits to Transform Your Life Completely
“If you don’t change, within 11 months you’re either going to be dead or in jail. Probably in jail.” A friend of mine told me this. Actually, I can think of three times, three different friends told me...
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10 Positive Consequences of Not Improving Yourself
When you get off of your own case, you tend to ease up on everyone else around you. Which makes you way more fun to be around. Way more. Only good can come of that. You will probably be more accepting...
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How Your Thoughts Determine the Quality of Your Life
Have you noticed? The quality of your thoughts is directly related to the quality of your daily life. Where your thoughts go, so does your attention. If your thoughts are rotten (self-critical,...
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How to Turn Your Mental Health Around
I went through a pretty tough time recently. When I say tough, I mean I would wake up and my first thought was, Can this day just be over already? Maybe that sounds like a relatable feeling that you...
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How to Reframe Failure
Every worldly success I’ve experienced grew from me falling flat on my face. I wrote and self-published 126 bite-sized eBooks on Amazon after I sold only four copies of my first eBook over four months....
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How to Handle Mom Guilt
Do you have mom guilt? If you’re a mom, the answer is yes. If you have had a mom, the answer is also most likely, yes. Why does being a mother or our relationship with our own, have the power to...
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Tips for Loneliness
The feeling of loneliness is incredibly painful. It can be particularly difficult this time of year where there is a lot of pressure to “deck the halls” with others and curl up roasting some chestnuts...
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Have You Invoked Any of These Loopholes to Let Yourself Off the Hook?
I’m very happy: I’ve discovered a new novelist whose work I love. I just finished Stephen McCauley’s new book My Ex-Life, and I plan to work my way through all his novels. It’s such a treat to discover...
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How Our Thoughts Are like Nettle…
A long, long time ago there was a family. This family lost their mom and wife. The children, one sister and seven brothers welcomed their stepmother. But their stepmother was jealous of their fortune...
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Stop Stuffing Your Schedule
For as long as I could remember, I never believed I could have it all. I really believed that anyone who said they could have it “all,” you know, a happy husband, kids, AND a big career, was either a...
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