Blooming Insights: Navigating Life’s Thorny Paths Amongst Beautiful Roses
As I prepared these orange roses for the vase I’d assign them as their home, I was surprised when I was pricked by their thorns. …
personal awareness
From Ambivalence to Courage: Embracing Your Unique Life Vision
“Did you know that confidence is a skill?” I asked her. “It isn’t about whether you have it or not, but how can you grow more of it. The question is: how do you begin to trust yourself more instead of relinquishing your power to other people and have them make decisions for you? You have such a strong discernment! Use that! Leverage that! Your discernment and your intuition is so strong and I know that you know that, which is why you’re so ambivalent about what you want to do.”
December Detox: A Nurse’s Plan for Mindful Consumption and Creative Focus
Life happens a spectrum. On one end, there’s complete abstinence, avoidance, no partaking, sobriety. Zero. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s consumption. Healthy, …
From Self Doubt to Divine Truth: A Letter Across Time
For people who play too small, you will always be too much. Too sensitive. Too smart. Too bold. Too courageous. Too much of everything they think they aren’t, but simply don’t know they are. And it’s not your problem to correct. It’s not your concern. Your only concern is God. And in him, you are. You’re only concern is you. Not selfishly, but lovingly. Love your neighbors as yourself. Patiently and kindly.
Just Because They Did Doesn’t Mean You Have To, Too
Just because they hurt you doesn’t mean you need to hurt yourself, too. Just because their love hurt doesn’t mean you need to hurt yourself in the name of love, too. That isn’t love. It’s “love”. It’s struggle love. Hurt love. Harmful love. It’s love from someone who didn’t learn how to truly love themselves, but it’s the love they know to give.
20 Minutes Is All It Took
Before you can change, you gotta be willing. And before you get willing, you gotta desire a different outcome. And if you desire a different outcome and think you can continue to think the same thinks you’ve always thought, or behave how you’ve always behaved, or responded to emotions the same way you always have, the only person you’ll fooling is you. It dang sure ain’t me!
Hi, my name is Joval and I Lost 100 Pounds!
First of all, let me say that I didn’t mean to lose 100 lbs. Whose goal is it to lose a hunnid pounds?! OK, probably …