Are Breaks in Relationships Healthy? Talking About the Stories We Tell Ourselves When people ask me, “Are breaks in relationships healthy?”, it’s rarely a casual question. Usually, it’s whispered through tears, fear, or frustration. The word “break” sounds like something snapping. Something that can’t be repaired. But what if that’s just the story we’ve inherited?… Continue Reading
A Letter From My Ex-Girlfriend: How To Give Yourself Closure After A Breakup
A Letter From My Ex-Girlfriend: How To Give Yourself Closure After A Breakup *This is an anonymous guest story, about how to give yourself closure after a breakup. A very special person allowed me to write about their experience, thank you. It was sitting there on Messenger. We hadn’t had any contact in two… maybe… Continue Reading
VIDEO: Why is separation so painful?
We ALL know separation is one of the most painful experiences you can go through in this life and this stuff of ‘being human’. But sometimes we don’t understand how badly it hurts until we’re IN it. Breakups are physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. Divorce is a relentless battle with someone else, yourself AND the state… Continue Reading
[VIDEO] The Seduction of Sad Town: Why am I sad and how can I feel better?
Do you find yourself Googling ‘Why am I sad?’ more than you’d like to? Why do you wallow in melancholy? Do you genuinely believe that you are better off living in sad town than trying to find more happiness? Would you like to be happier but have got stuck in the pity party? Are you… Continue Reading
We Don’t Have to be Confident and Together All the Time
This is a guest post that I wrote for Tiny Buddha and am republishing with permission from tinybuddha.com. You can find the original post here. “At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” ~Christine Mason Miller Eighth grade was a bit of a… Continue Reading
The best self-care is not ‘self’ oriented at all
Aren’t you sick of people missing the point? A really good idea: remembering to engage in acts of self-care- caring for yourself- to live a more fulfilled and enriched life gets taken, messed with, twisted and then somehow becomes yet another way to be a failure in society. As in, if you aren’t happy, if… Continue Reading
