Tag: mental health
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Writing as Breath
For me, writing is as essential as breathing. When life gets busy and routine slips, holding back my thoughts creates quiet anxiety. Realizing that pen and paper provide a safe space to process life without burdening others brought an immediate sense of relief, clarity, and renewed joy.
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Navigating Energy: Why Hosting Drains Us (Even in the Background)
Even when staying in the background, hosting visitors can drain your energy. Different people bring distinct vibrations, and for empaths or energy-sensitive souls, managing that presence requires balance. Recognizing how external energies impact our well-being is key to resting, resetting, and protecting our peace before the next wave of guests arrive.
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Clearing the Muck: Finding the Light After the Storm
When the heavy clouds of depression roll in, it’s rarely a single trigger—just a gradual buildup of life’s dust. But through awareness, movement, and meditation, the storm eventually passes. Embracing the darkness reveals the stars, paving the way for a fresh, clean lens and a return to productivity.
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Living in My Light
Life is too short to allow toxicity even in the smallest doses to exist near me/you. My life is wonderful. I have worked hard in my own self, in collaboration with my life partner, and in collective sharing with my inner circle and soul friends.
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Beyond the Basics: Challenging Myself to a “Mindset Upgrade”
Being nearly 50 has sparked a shift within me, moving beyond the “basics” of self-help toward a necessary fine-tuning. It’s no longer just about managing moods, but about upgrading my tools to cultivate true compassion—softening the defensive shell I’ve worn for years to finally let a deeper kindness take root.
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Had Better Days…
It’s been just over a week now since O-day. Overall, everything seems good in terms of the healing. I’m still generally off the pain meds, but still taking some arnica montana 30c a few times throughout the day. However, the mood the last couple of days has been less than stellar. Probably, my insides are…
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Life is…
Life is complicated and a roller coaster at times. Is it this way for everyone, or do other people have stable mental states and day-to-days? Would I want that even if I could? – Probably not. Nothing is wrong, per se. All is well physically, financially, etc. Yet, my mental state is jumbled. I’m a…
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Rising Temperatures; Cooling Minds
I love this picture so much. It represents the sense of melting that I feel in these really hot and humid days where I feel as if my skin is burning off even in the shade after just 5 minutes outside. It also shows my avatar relaxed and accepting the situation, which is how I…
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When a Soul Leaves…
I knew nothing about this person other than what I saw on TV when he was part of The Ellen Show or from his social media account dancing with his wife and family showing nothing but smiles on their faces. As many posts online state, one never truly knows what is going on the inside…
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Oversaturation
One of my favorite items to use in analogies is the sponge. It works on many levels – kids at about age eight are little sponges soaking up everything new with curiosity; pain can be absorbed like a sponge, but it doesn’t mean that it has left the body until you squeeze it out, but…
