Tag: emotions
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It’s a Saturday afternoon and I have a million things I need to get done. But I’m lying on the couch holding Travis while he sleeps, an unusually long sleep for my chronic cat-napper. I could go put him down in his crib but I don’t want to. I want to sit here and hold…
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I’m currently writing this post on my cellphone (a first for me), Travis asleep in my arms not wanting to be put down after getting his 10 week vaccinations this morning. I’m surrendering to the fact that I might not find a gap to sit and write this on my laptop, and if I don’t…
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Our journeys through life are marked with scars; small scars, big scars, beautiful scars, and scars we prefer to keep covered and hidden from sight. Some of these wounds and hurts that we experience may be so large that they stop us in our tracks and bring us to our knees. But others might be…
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A guest post by Cindy-Lee Moon No,Is a necessary magicNo,Draws a circle around youWith chalkAnd saysI have given enough– Boundaries My failure to set boundaries resulted in allowing myself to be too accessible and therefore caused me great resentment toward the very people who I allowed in. In an ideal world, if I had learned the practice…
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As human beings we like to feel safe and have a sense of control over our lives. Having a sense of routine and knowing what’s going to come next in our day, our week, or our year helps us mentally and emotionally prepare and acts as a kind of security blanket that keeps us safe…
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Emotions come and go like waves; ever-changing and an endless cycle of ebb and flow. Although we experience these emotional shifts in our regular lives, the amount of space that lockdown has created in our lives has given way for these waves to be experienced more intensely, and the grief, anxiety and uncertainty that has…
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Self-love can be such a vague concept; we all kind of know what it is, but knowing how to really do it can be a bit trickier. A few months ago I dived into what self-love really is and I spoke about the fact that self-love isn’t only about being kind to ourselves and indulging…
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Some of you may have heard about the term “Shadow Work” before, and for others it might be an entirely new concept. The Shadow Self is a theory that was originally written about by Carl Jung and is used to describe the unconscious parts of ourselves that we may not know we have, yet have…
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As we make our way into the fifth month of 2020 I think we can all agree that this year has looked nothing like we anticipated. Plans have been put on hold, dreams have been delayed, expectations have been met with disappointment and normality seems a thing of the past. Although this year has been…
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Life is a wild thing. We get dropped off on planet earth, are raised by other human beings who are also learning as they go along, get thrown countless situations and events over which we have no control, feel millions of emotions that we sometimes don’t know how to deal with, and then by the…