Tag: Self love
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We’re all women here (except if you’re not, in which case – welcome!) which means that at any given time of any given month we’re in one phase of our menstrual cycle or another. Being on the pill for most of my adult life I took this cycle for granted, knowing technically where I was…
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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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This post has been a tricky one for me to write which is why it’s been on my ‘draft’ list for a few months now. I’ve been wanting to talk about this but in a way I feel unqualified to; I’ve never suffered from an eating disorder, I’ve got a pretty healthy body image and…
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We all want to be happy. We throw it out there as if it’s the most simple statement in the world, but how often have you ever stopped to think about what being happy looks like for you? When people ask what we want in life we reply “I just want to be happy”. Or,…
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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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Written by Shavon Cox My earliest memory of journaling was back in grade five when I would write about my day-to-day life and its happenings in a diary that had one of those incorporated lock and keys. Writing in my diary made me feel like I had my life together at the age of ten…
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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…