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How To Process Negative Emotions

process negative emotions

Research shows how happy you are depends on your ability to process negative emotions. Learning to accept rather than fight your feelings is the key to handling them better.

Grudges And Learning To Let Them Go

Grudges And Letting Go

In truth, our grudge, and the identity that accompanies it, is an attempt to get the comfort and compassion we didn’t get in the past, the empathy for what happened to us at the hands of this “other,” the experience that our suffering matters. Our indignation and anger is a cry to be cared about, treated differently—because of what we have endured.

Don’t Give Up: Learning To Communicate

learning to communicate

Relationships are made up of people each trying to find their way in a complex world. Selfishness, ego, the need to be right, and defensiveness are all part of human nature. Keeping these traits in healthy balance can be difficult. Not managed well, these common characteristics can corrode the best relationships.

Six Tips for Holiday Decorations Without the Stress

holiday stress

back to all The holidays can be AMAZING. They can also be stressful. There are definitely things you can do when decorating that lower potential holiday stress. With that said, all that cooking business, please call your mama, sister, a best friend or maybe your favorite restaurant capable of cracking out a turkey! 1. Preview […]

When I Was Your Age: Teens

teens

Adolescence is indeed a complicated phase of life. It truly strikes me how often we remove ourselves so far away from the very developmental process we were all once a part of. Weren’t we all teens at some point?

Middle Age Isn’t A Crisis

Like my peers, I think this is a pretty fabulous time in my life, but it’s also time to change the mindset about aging as something to dread. For many of us, the inner metamorphosis that comes with middle age opens the door to becoming the best versions of ourselves and for that, I am grateful.

Defining Motherhood

defining motherhood

Most of us mothers, no matter the circumstance, feel inadequate at times. Unprepared and unappreciated. Too busy and not doing enough. Overbearing and overindulging.