welcome to the writing. these are thoughts and feels i’ve managed to catch and release.
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Existential Musings
Read more: Existential MusingsSometimes I wonder how the world can possibly function when it’s run by humans. Maybe with age you start to feel older and wiser, like you know things through experience that will make a difference in how things are run and the decisions you make. But at 31 I feel like the world is run…
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Art & Depression
Read more: Art & DepressionI began listening to Susan Cain’s interview with Tim Ferriss today and she’s talking about her new book, which is called Bittersweet, from what I understand. She spoke about something that resonated with me more than others, because a lot of what she speaks about I resonate with. They were talking about depression and she…
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Famine, Creativity & Love
Read more: Famine, Creativity & LoveListening to Women Who Run With The Wolves today by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, she brought up the idea of a famine. When nothing’s bad but nothing’s good either. She called it the famine: when your spirit hasn’t been fed. It’s when your creativity is stifled, when nothing is pouring out from you. It’s when you…
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What You Do Matters
Read more: What You Do MattersIt pains me that people accept things in their life that they are unhappy with. It frustrates me to no end that just because being overweight, depressed and unhappy are common, people accept that it’s normal and just go about their day. They don’t even try to do anything to change their circumstances. Why not…
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Lessons & Meaning
Read more: Lessons & MeaningLife is so interesting. You grow up and you learn countless lessons, make countless mistakes, experience endless obstacles and suffering. You become conscious and you realize that’s exactly what everyone before you did. Nothing you’ve learned is new. Sure it’s groundbreaking and reality shattering to you, but to anyone else who came before, it’s old…
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Number One Goal To Tame Anxiety & Depression
Read more: Number One Goal To Tame Anxiety & DepressionThe First Step To Tame Anxiety & Depression I tend to link anxiety and depression together when I really shouldn’t. They are definitely different beasts but in my mind and in my experience, depression can develop as a response of prolonged anxiety. After your body has lived in a fight or flight mode for an…
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2021: Shedding
Read more: 2021: SheddingLooking back at this year it seems uneventful and the progress (if any) I made seems minuscule. But really, there was a lot that happened, a lot that changed, a lot that evolved internally. It was a year of transition. It started off strong after finishing my nutritional therapy course last year. I was inspired…
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2020: A Year of Experimentation & Discovery
Read more: 2020: A Year of Experimentation & DiscoveryOh, 2020, where do I even start? It was one hell of a year – in every sense. We were thrown into it without much choice but we had so much control over what came out if it. For me personally, a few of the most important things to come out of it were what…
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Why The Relationship With Yourself Should Come Before All Others
Read more: Why The Relationship With Yourself Should Come Before All OthersIt wasn’t until my world turned upside down, at the lowest I’d ever been in my life, when I truly started to learn the importance of having a relationship with yourself. It’s real. And if you do it right, it can change your life. People say that all the time: “Love yourself before you can…
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2019: A Love Story
Read more: 2019: A Love StoryReading my thoughts from the beginning of the year, I was there. My beautiful self was there, but she was so guarded. She was trapped in a hole of insecurity, fear and feelings of unworthiness. She was boxed into a mindset and her life was closed. There was no room for love or for just…
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