It started innocently enough. A co-worker asked me for a recommendation. I don’t take writing recommendations lightly, since I want them to be sincere and it takes time to write them. But I felt that I could honestly recommend her, so I took some time writing one and sent it to her. Yet instead of […]
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“Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” ~Jean Anouih Most of the struggles in our life are really struggles within ourselves, even if we don’t see it at the time. Not accepting ourselves as we are is one way we keep on struggling. It reminds me of the word “should”
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Life certainly has its ups and downs. And we often automatically label these experiences as “good” and “bad.” As I shared last month in “Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again,” we can breathe in all our amazing moments, hold on during the awful ones, and relax and exhale during
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“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful, it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”
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I don’t know whether it’s because it is fall, but somehow letting go keeps on coming up as a theme around me. It’s a hard thing to do for many, because at the heart of it is fear. Whether it’s letting go of a career, a relationship, or resentment, we are afraid what will happen
Sometimes things happen in our lives that we find hard to accept. We might be informed that we are getting laid off, find out about a health issue, discover that someone betrayed us or that someone we care about got into an accident. Our first reaction is usually: “No!” “That can’t be!” “I can’t believe
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“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” ~Joseph Campbell We often think we are in control of our own destiny. We have heard that if we plan, identify goals, visualize, pray, think positively, set intentions, work hard, etc. we will get what we really
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Last night I came across Facebook post about a dress that some people see as white and gold and others as black and blue. (See: The internet is losing its composure over this dress that might be white and gold or black and blue) I saw it CLEARLY as white and gold, but when I
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” ~Theodore Rubin Many of us are striving for a happy life, where everything goes well, we feel good, we are having good experiences and there are no problems. And we might even get to
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Have you ever said something you wish you hadn’t? Have you ever done something you regretted later? Or maybe you did something and were told by someone else that you shouldn’t have? Welcome to being human! At some point in our lives, we all make decisions and choices that we or someone else later consider
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