Category: Mindfulness
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Awakening to Your Inner Knowing
For a long time, I ignored my intuition completely. Growing up in the circumstances I did, and probably as an undiagnosed neurodivergent kid, I learned to distrust my own mind. I told myself over and over that whatever I was thinking was wrong, and everyone else knew better. I ignored my thoughts, my gut feelings,…
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Journaling for People Who Can’t
The first time I realized what journaling could actually do for me, I was deep in my “everything is happening to me” phase. Some might know it better as a victim mindset. Back then, it didn’t take much for me to feel triggered. Something Josh would say, or not say, was enough to send me…
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How I Stopped Yelling
Nothing cracks you open like parenting. Especially when you’re still figuring out who you are. I had my oldest son, Joseph, when I was 23. I didn’t know myself yet, didn’t know what I needed, let alone how to give it to someone else. If you missed it, I kinda made a whole post about…
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Unraveling Miscommunications: The Weight of Expectations
Do you ever have a moment where something small annoys the ever-living crap out of you? And do you ever wonder why it annoys you so much? Literally, same. It’s so frustrating because I feel like I should be able to handle things differently, especially with so much “healing” under my belt. But, here we…
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How to Live a Long and Happy Life
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life is such a pretty, calming, little book to look at. And what’s inside feels the same way. I used to think purpose was this big, shiny thing you either found or didn’t. Like some magical treasure at the end of a scavenger hunt called “Life.”…
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The Voice in Your Head Isn’t Always You
Josh recently came across a set of personality assessments, part of something called Positive Intelligence, developed by Shirzad Chamine. I’m a sucker for a self-assessment test of any sort. So he already knew I was down. One of the key tools is the Saboteur Assessment, a short quiz that identifies which internal “saboteurs” are the…
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Plateau or Progress?
Growth is weird. Once you’ve done some real healing and started making changes, you kind of expect yourself to keep that momentum going. You know better now, you’ve made progress, so when old habits creep back in, it can feel frustrating. Or disappointing. Like, Really? This again? I thought we were past this. And then…
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Manifestation is for Everyone
When you hear the word manifestation, you might picture someone sitting in a field, chanting affirmations to the universe while waiting for a pile of money to drop from the sky. Or maybe you roll your eyes and think, Oh, great. Another woo-woo buzzword telling me to just think positive and everything will magically fall…
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5 Ways to Find Peace
I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety for a long time. I always wondered why I couldn’t hold on to happiness like others seemed to. It felt like something was wrong with me, like I was missing some secret everyone else had figured out, until I realized I was chasing something impossible. No one is—or ever…
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The Secret to Happiness: It’s Already Here
Have you ever thought, “I’ll finally be happy when…”? . . . I lose the weight.. . . I find the perfect job.. . . my house looks like those aesthetic Instagram posts. I’ve been there. For years, I lived in a constant state of waiting, convinced that happiness was just one accomplishment or milestone…
Unraveling the Self 