Growing up I always felt like I needed to be perfect. Whether it was at school, playing sports or in everyday conversation, I’d consider myself a failure if I didn’t have the highest grades, wasn’t the captain of the team, or didn’t sense someone was truly impressed by me after a conversation. This behavior became
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In today’s world full of tension more and more people identify stress as their main health concern and research confirms that, indeed, living with stress leads to many health problems. Study after study links stress to number of conditions: anxiety, depression, insomnia, diabetes, premature aging, heart disease and many more. In recent years, meditation
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May you always remember the fleeting and sacred nature of this life. May you always revel in this moment, remembering to take pause, and observe all that is right here, right now, as to fully envelop yourself in its magic. May you give yourself permission to embrace yourself fully and completely. Without doubt. Without apology.
For the last 10 years I have sat alongside many beautiful, resilient people who have allowed me the privilege of holding with them the deepest, and most intimate details of their lives. To be given this privilege has transformed me. It has allowed me to understand the capacity of the human spirit, to witness true
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For years, I clung tightly to a fairly narrow idea of what constitutes success. I subscribed to the notion that success is to be found externally, through the accumulation of achievements and accolades, and the receipt of recognition and approval. I held the idea that I had to prove myself, prove myself worthy, lovable, and
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Unconditional love is always rooted in non-attachment. Loving another unconditionally means loving them in the complete totality of their being… regardless of how they “show up.” Loving another, really loving another, is always rooted in self-love. If we yearn for love because we are looking for someone to “fill us up” to reassure us that
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The sheer beauty of the human soul never ceases to amaze me. Let us always remember that although we live in adult bodies, and are plagued by seemingly unrelenting responsibilities that come with living a grown up life, we are all just doing the best we can. When we take away the guise of adulthood,
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Self-compassion. Because it lies at the root of self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness because we are imperfect, beautifully flawed beings who do and say things we regret. Because mistakes are inevitable part of this journey. Because mistakes should never be a life sentence. Because we are human and we weren’t born to be perfect. Because perfect is unattainable
