Dealing with your mentally ill loved one often feels like a lightning storm, full of sudden shocks and loud noises. Your loved one vanishes in fragments, carried away by storms inside their own minds. Severe mental illness does not only affect the person carrying it, but it also reshapes lives of everyone around them. Loss […]
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Perfection is an illusion. We chase it in our appearance, our homes, our relationships and our achievements. Believing that if we can just get everything right, we’ll finally feel whole. But perfection is a moving target, that seems to drift just out of reach. Perfectionism is heavy and it doesn’t create happiness, it creates exhaustion.
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Trauma is the most life-changing situation. It has such a profound effect on you as it is often unexpected and deeply connected to grief and shock. Trauma alters how you see the world, how you trust, and how you see yourself. A single moment that split your life into before and after. It can manifest
Division is inflexibility and is born of ego and narcissism. Narcissists compromise only when it benefits them and they often weaponize the compromise. They surround themselves with people who won’t contradict them. They cause division through derision so that no one trusts one another. Conflict, competition, and ego fractures progress. Unity over division requires compromise. Compromise
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Patience is a form of strength, a quiet discipline that shapes how we move through life’s challenges and uncertainties. Patience is trusting that not everything needs to unfold on our timetable and that growth has its own season to bloom. When we cultivate patience, we learn to release the illusion of control and open ourselves
Bravery is not always the clenched fist or the raised voice. Sometimes, the bravest thing we can do is to soften when the world expects us to harden. Bravery is responding with compassion and forgiveness. Bravery is bearing our vulnerability, sharing our true selves, admitting when we’re wrong, and daring to trust in the future.
After retirement, when I finally had opportunity to slow down a bit, I was lost so I started reading. Two of the first books I read were Kyle Scheele’s How to host a Viking Funeral and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic. They had a profound impact on my later years and made me see the world
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The desire to do good is woven deeply into the human spirit. We are moved to help, to give, to contribute, and to make a difference. Acts of kindness and service ripple outward, touching lives in ways we may never see. Yet in our eagerness to serve, there is a danger, forgetting to care for
Don’t Lose Yourself, The Balance of Service and Self-Care Read Post »
I have always been on a spiritual journey of one kind or another. I began in childhood when it was unpopular and made you an outcast, so I hid it. I hid it from my family and friends, the few that I had. Sometimes I even hid it from myself. But whatever “it” was, would
