By: Sarah E. Miller Let’s get this out of the way first: Ghosting is crappy etiquette. There’s no real, concrete excuse for it, except perhaps pure, unadulterated laziness with a touch of cruelty. We take for granted how much technology has changed the way we interact with people. We are humans first, but it seems we…

By: Advisor Christine Introducing The Angel Tarot Deck Aries – The Tower The Tower is hitting you with sudden changes this month Aries!  These changes areinevitable and beyond your control.  This influence can shatter your ego, so you may feel vulnerable and confused.  You can only surrender and accept the huge shift in awareness it…

By: Mai Pham “I want to live my life without stress and worries. I don’t need to be rich or famous. I just want to be happy.” ~Unknown Have you ever set a goal and then become obsessed with it, making it the center of your life and arranging everything else around it? Did you think…

By: Aska Kolton “Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.” ~Russ Von Hoelscher Being in love is awesome. Sharing your life with someone special who gets you, adores you, and loves you for who…

By: Ilene S. Cohen “Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. It gets to the point when it’s the loudest voice in the room. The only one you can hear.” ~Unknown White lights flutter before your eyes. Your chest tightens, as if under…

By: Marwan Jamal “Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who truly want to be together.” ~Unknown You can`t take it anymore. Life’s getting boring, you fight over everything, your relationship has lost its spark, and you can’t look each other in the eye without feeling regret. Many marriages and relationships get…

By Banu Sekendur “The most perfect relationship is the one that supports you in fulfilling your destiny—the one that empowers you to be everything you are meant to be in this world and beyond.” ~Jan H. Stringer As I was sitting up in my bed, reviewing my “Ideal partner wish list” from six years ago, I was…

By: Eric Ibey “Resilience in love means finding strength from within that you can share with others.” ~Sheryl Sandberg It took me a couple months to start repairing my broken heart after the toughest breakup of my life. I thought we were going to spend our lives together, but the gods of love had other plans….

By Nicholas Montemarano “In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” ~Buddha When asked why I write fiction, I used to say, “Because I enjoy writing and revising sentences” or “Because I like practicing an art I’ll never perfect” or “Because I love to read.” All those reasons remain true,…

By: Lynn Newman “True closeness respects each other’s space.” ~Angelica Hopes It was a Friday, the workweek had ended, and I was excited for my boyfriend to come home. (Okay, I’m talking about an ex-boyfriend—these steps took me time to implement…) I’d gone grocery shopping and had two steaks to grill, with asparagus and a bottle of…

By: Nicah Caramba “Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” ~Unknown Sometimes we prolong relationships for the sake of comfort and familiarity. We’re fearful of what’s out there, and life without a partner. No matter how many times we’ve been hurt, taken for granted, or had our needs neglected, we…

Forgiveness. Are you able to forgive your ex? You have to if you want him back or you will always end up having this conflict in you, which can affect the process of getting back with him. We all need to be forgiven. Usually both partners – even the one responsible for the break up…

By: Beth Clayton “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ~Eckhardt Tolle The day I decided to leave acting felt like being exorcised from my own body. I was twenty-nine and had been dreaming of being an actor from the time I first saw a regional production of Cats around the age of eight. I spent…

By: Brianna Blake “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” ~Maya Angelou After having been a rebound girl the summer of 2013, I swore I would never get involved with another emotionally unavailable man who had baggage and was a poor communicator. I thought I was a pro at all of the tell tale…

By: Amit Pagedar “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~Plutarch We live in an age of information overload. Our televisions and the Internet are flooding our senses with a myriad of things. Researchers carefully craft all the advertisements we watch and all the magazines we read to…

By Lori Deschene “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” ~Brian Tracy There was a time when I thought peace was a destination, in much the same way I imagined I’d eventually arrive at happiness or success. It seemed like something I needed to chase or find—definitely not something…

By: Becky Swenson “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~Dalai Lama While every adoption story is different, they all start with a loss. Our loss turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to us. I’ve had two migraines in my life. Both were when I…

By: Laura Probert “Your fear is boring.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert It has taken me eighteen years of marriage, two kids, and twenty-plus years of healing to realize I have been afraid of being myself with my husband. It has taken me decades to step into my power and become the fiercely alive, joyful, and creative expression I…

By: Rita Loyd “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~Louise L. Hay When I first began painting twenty years ago, I had no idea what self-love was. A few years prior, I thought I knew, but when I lost my health to chronic illness and could no longer do…

By: Myrite Rotstein “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you’ll live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” ~Frank Crane I’m heading home with a latte in hand, listening to This American Life through my headphones when a woman sitting on a bench outside the café waves me down. She looks like…