The Urge to Fix Myself
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”― E.B. White It happens all of the time. I go around in circles, it seems, between working on myself and trying to fix everything I think is broken…
The First Step to Loving Yourself
A while back, I wrote an article that has gotten some traffic on Medium titled, I Healed My Depression When I Stopped Hating Myself. While I feel that everything I wrote in that article is true, especially that I no longer suffer from depression, I am not sure that I communicated that learning to “not…
The Urge to Fix Things
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”― E.B. White It happens all of the time. I go around in circles, it seems, between working on myself and trying to fix everything I think is broken in…
I Healed My Depression When I Stopped Hating Myself
The great majority of depressed individuals are in fact very much loved, but it doesn’t help one bit because self-love and self-esteem are missing. At the bottom line, only your own sense of self-worth determines how you feel.~ David Burns M.D. It was 2007, I remember walking from my kitchen to the dining room…
The Voice of Self-Compassion Part 2
“Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you—with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities.” Kristen Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself In Part I of The Voice of Self-Compassion, I ended the blog post with…
The Voice of Self-Compassion Part 1
If you are used to having feelings that you cannot explain then you, also, may be unaware of the thoughts which have caused them. Poor diet, lack of sleep, and stress can affect the way we feel. However, most of us have an incessant voice that is commenting non-stop about what we are doing or…
A Compassionate World Starts with How I Talk to Myself
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”~Buddha What an idiot! Most of us would cringe at…
There is Nothing Wrong with You
“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your life has been anything like mine, you have received a lot of messages which make you believe that in some ways, or maybe in many ways, you just don’t measure…