Tag: Personal Growth
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Spirituality and Religion From A Loving Place
(4) Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant (5) or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; (6) it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. (7) It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,…
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Give Yourself the Love You Deserve
Thoughts are like data programmed into a computer, registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in going up to the screen and trying to erase it. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you…
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I’m Not Stupid After All: School Testing and Self-Worth
The divergent thinker has considered the problem from all angles and made connections between the question and each of the potential answers. He has now spent four times as long on the question as the person who is tuned to think convergently, and his likelihood of choosing the “right” answer is still no better than…
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We All Have Our Own Journey
Why do we feel it necessary to judge others’ journeys? I find it so easy to get caught in this web. When I can pull myself back from it, I can see a better way. I choose to embrace my own journey! When I put the focus back on me and see that I’m only…
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Discovering the Meaning of Love
“My negativity was as destructive to me as alcohol is to the alcoholic. I was an artist finding my own jugular. It was as though I was addicted to my own pain.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love p. 9 Coming from a divorced home, it is not uncommon to have problems with intimate relationships. If there…
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A Better Life Begins With Gratitude
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” -Oprah Winfrey I’m always amazed how fast positive changes start to occur when I focus…
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Embrace the Breakdown
When I was 17, I struggled with severe depression. I could send myself into a tailspin within seconds. It got so bad that I agreed to be admitted into a hospital to get help. I used to believe that it was only going to get worse, and that there was no hope in my future.…
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Tearing Down Walls Isn’t Enough
“If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?” -Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers p. 254 I have made countless attempts to re-build my metaphoric house. I would tear it all down in my head and start re-building. I noticed the…
From A Loving Place 