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…
Love Doesn’t Hurt: Lack of Love Does
I’ve had an epiphany! The fog has lifted, and the clouds have parted, at least in my mind, and as cheesy as it sounds, the lyrics of I Can See Clearly Now are looping through my brain. I have had this type of realization or insight before, but only once as enlightening as this one,…
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…
We Are All Doing the Best We Can
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ~Maya Angelou As this clod of dirt and magnificent beauty propels me through space, the best thing I can do for my fellow human beings, and myself, is to believe that we are all just doing the best…
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…
How Do You Like Your Eggs? And What That Says About You
In the film Runaway Bride, Maggie Carpenter, played by Julia Roberts, has a habit of leaving her beloved at the altar, running at the last minute from marriage. Journalist Ike Graham, played by Richard Gere, notices that Maggie takes on the passions and interests of each respective fiancé, down to the type of eggs he…
Being YOU is an Act of Love
“At some point, now or later, you are going to have to risk BEING YOU in order to find out who that really is.” ~ Cheri Huber Can you recall a time when you hid your true feelings from another person because you believed that saying what you felt would mean rejection? It is…
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…
Mirror Mirror
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” ~Sally Kempton When we were young, and we looked into a mirror, most of us saw someone we liked. Just like the little girl in the picture above, we made faces at ourselves, sometimes puffing up our cheeks with air, widening our eyes,…