Category: Self Discovery
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Breaking Toxic Patterns: Why Do I Keep Doing this to Myself?

Why Won’t These Seeds Thrive? Trying and Failing to Make My Internal Garden Thrive I lived in the darkness for a long time pretending to love, but I wasn’t capable. I read book after book, went to multiple therapists, and would even go to seminars trying to find the help I needed. I kept searching…
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Remembering Trauma

How we use are minds to go through the remembering process of trauma can be a powerful tool to help launch us forward, or a cruel weapon to keep us down. What many don’t understand is the choice is ours. Our perception is our power. We can use it to lift ourselves up or to…
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How Do I Make Them Stop?

If anyone has ever had an addict, abuser, narcissist, or someone with mental illness in your lives, you may have asked, prayed, and cried over this question. If the person above is you, you may have asked, “How can I stop…?” Then, “How do I make them stop?” can be the question that follows trying to make…
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3 Ways to Remove the Clutter that Self-Abuse Creates

3 Ways to Remove the Clutter that Self-Abuse Creates Self-abuse is one of the many ways our self-hate, low self-esteem, lack of worth, and negative self-image manifest themselves. We create clutter both inwardly and outwardly when we don’t become self-aware of how we are treating ourselves. This doesn’t help us lead productive lives. This doesn’t…
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The Importance of Friends: The Journey to Becoming Our Best Selves

I woke up this morning with the overwhelming feeling of gratitude. As I wrote out my gratitude list, a stream of joy began to flow through me as I thought about the amazing people in my life. Tears are filling my eyes with how blessed I feel in this very moment. It got me thinking…
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LETTERS FROM A BETTER ME: The Empowered Me

Dear Self, I have the choice to feel: happy, sad, mad, love, fear, empowered, depleted, and on and on. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are. These are my choices. I will choose actions based on how I choose to feel and what I choose to believe. I pray that I choose wisely today so…
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90-Day Series Updates

Dear Readers, I’m excited to inform you that I’ve been through each day of the FREE 90-Day A Better Me Series and the 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series and now BOTH series are fully available on FromALovingPlace.com. I provided links on each day for easy navigation through every piece of the series. Now that…
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Focusing on the Blessings

I know as well as anyone when we have stress, it is so EASY to put our focus on what are we are lacking in the moment such as money, time, connection, numbers, communication, etc. We live in a world that thrives on stressors. Stress comes from fear. The feeling of lack comes from fear.…
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: THANK YOU

Letters From A Better Me Dear Readers, I want to take a moment to thank all the readers who came on the 90-Day A Better Me Series adventure with me. This series was such a joy to create and write everyday. It was very weird yesterday taking the day off knowing that the series was…
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: Day 90 – Committing to Lead by Example

Letters from A Better Me 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series Part III: Living the Journey Making the Now Count: Rebuilding our Lives Day 90: Committing to Lead by Example Dear Universe, Today, I commit to doing my best. I commit to being the change. I commit to leading by example. I commit to doing…
