Petals Unfolding
Through the pain and utter despair, I was shedding skin like a reborn snake. I was forming new rules to live by and leaving my painful past behind.
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Shrink The Size of Your Plate
She has room on her plate for her husband and their twin children, her job, and her relatives. Anything more would fall off her plate.
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8 Mindfulness Habits You Can Practice Everyday
So many of us spend our days just running from moment to moment. We are busy, have demands coming from several different areas of life, and simply don’t feel like there is time to stop and smell the roses. We wonder if we can get the rose scent in a to-go package.
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A Step into the Sahara out of my Comfort Zone
"Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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Loving Light
By shedding loving light on ourselves we find a new appreciation and reverence. We look at ourselves and others with more humanity, grace and compassion.
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The Perfect Online Mom
We all do it. You scroll through your newsfeed and see "perfect" parenting. The perfect plate of food from all the food groups, (which we assume their kids eat ALL of without complaint)...
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Lessons From The Sky
Sleep later! Right now you need to be awake to see this! In our day to day lives, so many people don't really see. They may go outside, but they don't see the beauty of the sky, the trees, the water, the stars.
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Positive Emotions and Well-Being: Insights from Positive Psychology
How can we enrich our lives with more positive emotions (without regular lottery wins and frequent honeymoons)? Opportunities, it appears, abound as far and as near the eye can see.
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The Beauty of Imperfection
Centuries back, in the height of the Japanese autumn, in one of Kyoto’s majestic gardens, a tea master asked his disciple to prepare for tea ceremony.
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I Should Have Hugged a Little Tighter
Generous to the server, bought the kitchen staff a round of drinks, made fun of me at the movies, tipped his hat at the old ladies in the street…you know, a true gentleman.
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