Self-Esteem & Self-Compassion
How to feel good about yourself [11 things]
Well, 2020 was quite a year, wasn’t it? I don’t think we even know yet the toll that the emotional exhaustion has taken. And with all this in the background, it may be harder than usual to feel good about yourself. Adding insult to injury is that even though it’s just 14 days into 2021, we…
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Feeling like you don’t fit in?
Here we are almost at the end of 2020, and you might be feeling like you don’t fit in. The holidays have arrived, but it all feels kind of surreal. Life goes on, but we’re in the midst of an unrelenting limbo. Times like these definitely provoke feelings that we don’t fit in. For ages…
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Finding solace in a writing prompt
Finding solace. Last month I was talking with a friend and she used the word solace. I remembered it was a word I loved. The essence of it. The sound of it, the way it lingers on your tongue. I thought about two books I’d read in the Before Times that had solace in their titles:…
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Life is a journey and we’re definitely on it
(Lately I’m sometimes called to write more personal blog posts that originate in my journal. This is one of them.) We’ve all heard it before: life is a journey not a destination. It seems a little obvious these days, and yet there’s a part of me that keeps hoping I’ll arrive at a destination far…
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A coronavirus mental health crisis: how do we meet the moment?
How to do we meet the coronavirus mental health moments? Sometimes (not often) it feels hard to write these blog posts. In fact, I wrote a very different post that was supposed to be published last week. But I found myself wondering and doubting: Is this helpful? What could I possibly have to say in…
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