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Choosing Love Without Losing Yourself
For a long time, I thought love meant melting. Melting my boundaries. Melting my voice. Melting myself into whatever shape made other...

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Letting Go of Over Giving
For most of my life, I thought love was earned through exhaustion. Be the reliable one. Be the strong one. Be the “of course I can handle...

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Reclaiming Your Needs Without Feeling Needy
Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that needing something — anything — made us a burden. We learned to apologize for our...

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Sacred Boundaries: How to Say No With Love (and Without Guilt)
For so long, many of us were taught that setting boundaries was mean. That saying no was selfish. That real love meant saying yes — even...

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The Art of Taking Up Space Without Apology
For so many of us, shrinking became second nature. We learned to soften our voices, round out our edges, and make ourselves easier for...

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Why True Growth Feels More Like Softening Than Hustling
For most of us, growth was taught as a hustle. Push harder. Do more. Fix yourself faster. Prove you’re worthy. And for a while, it might...

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The Power of Softness: Why Gentleness Is Your Superpower, Not Your Weakness
Somewhere along the way, the world convinced us that softness was a flaw. That to be gentle was to be weak. That to feel deeply was to be...

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Why Healing Isn’t About Becoming Someone New ✨ It’s About Remembering Who You Already Are
For so many of us, healing can feel like a race to become someone better. Someone more confident. More radiant. More worthy. We chase...

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Weight Loss & Self-Love
I have spent the last 31 years yo-yo dieting. I have succeeded and failed numerous times at losing weight. But I am ready to start...

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Acceptance - the action of consenting
I think a lot of times when we think about acceptance it feels like a giving up of effort. It's like I've accepted defeat, I think is...

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Negativity Bias
Negativity Bias is an adaptive evolutionary function. Thousands of years ago our ancestors were always in harms way. They didn’t have the...

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Fear is a Liar
Have you heard this song by Zach Williams? It is my absolute favorite song, it reminds me that I can do all things, even through fear....

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Supportive Sentences
The words we use to describe our pain or how we are feeling really has an impact on us. The problem is that the more we hear, read, or...

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Widow Fog
Are you constantly walking into rooms and forgetting why you went in there? Or are you always misplacing your keys, or purse? Are you...

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The Concept of 50/50
Society has taught us that we should be happy all the time. That 100% happiness is our goal in life. I'd like for you to challenge that...

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Self Care during Grief
What does self care look like during grief? When we are consumed by grief we usually aren't thinking about what is best for us. But we...

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