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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley Practicing Gratitude I know, I know, I am officially a broken record when it comes to gratitude. But I am a broken record because it is something that [...]
"Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering." ~ Kangana Ranaut Trigger Warning: This post talks about abusive and toxic relationships. The Bachelorette I am interrupting my (scattered) regular blog post scheduling for a topic brought to light thanks to The Bachelorette. Yes, [...]
Trigger Warning: This post talks about mental illness, suicide, and eating disorders. "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my [...]
"Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time [...]
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Buddha The guise of social media Social media is great at painting the guise of the picture perfect. All rainbows, butterflies, and amazing food, (okay I am envious of all the food pictures!) creating social [...]
"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." Octavia E. Butler Struggling It seems like every quote I come across lately has spoken to my soul and this one in particular is yelling, I have been struggling something fierce the last few months. To be honest, I wasn't sure if I could [...]
“In 2014 this stage was actually the first time that I was authentically, 100 percent honest with all of you. I think it’s safe to say that all of you know my life whether I like it or not. I had to stop because I had everything and I was absolutely broken inside. I [...]