By: Ashley Lilly “Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.” ~Unknown Throughout this year, I’ve noticed myself feeling envious of other people. Particularly, I would feel envious of the famous people that I would see on television, read about in magazines, and follow on social media. I wouldn’t even be envious of them…

By: Advisor Rhonda You can’t explain the feeling you get when you two are together..all you know is that it’s magnetic! The chemistry and the connection is the strongest you have ever felt with anyone. You find yourself thinking about them all the time and you still get butterflies whenever you are around them. With…

By: Lesya Li “Love does not obey our expectations; it obeys our intentions.” ~Lloyd Strom Have you ever felt less about a relationship when it didn’t exactly pan out like a fairy tale? I sure did. I had it stuck in my mind that a great relationship should be picture perfect. When reality would give me a…

By Claire Hodgson “Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.” ~Doris Mortman As I sit here writing this, I am still in the middle of a huge shift in my life, a shift that has seen me move from living by other people’s values and expectations…

By: Rylie Robinson “You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” ~Stevie Wonder Being blatantly underestimated is simply a part of my life. No matter what I’m doing, the ordinary will seem extraordinary, and the extraordinary will seem insurmountable to those who look at me for the first time. There is no way I am…

By: Jenna Drew “Calmness is the cradle of power.” ~Josiah Gilbert Holland I was interested, recently, to find that our local supermarket had set up an area with ten self-service checkouts. For years I‘d accepted the normal method of bagging and paying for my stuff. No stress there. But they’d installed some new technology and I…

By: Alexander Dunlop “With ‘I’ eliminated, this is Nirvana, here and now.”  ~ Buddha I remember when I started learning Spanish in college. I wanted to visit Spain. I had grand ideas about a romantic voyage. And yes, I had a foreign language credit to fill. If you know the Spanish language at all, you know…

By: Holly Smith “Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.” ~Vironika Tugaleva Have you ever heard someone say, “I don’t know why this is happening to me?” or, “My ex is really crazy”? I have said myself, “It’s not my fault he’s a jerk.” It can be…

By AJ Walton “Don’t worry about what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman From center stage I looked out into the crowd as the stage lights warmed my face and did their best to obscure my vision….

By: Jill Gross “Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.” ~Unknown “This is it,” I thought. I finally found the man I had been waiting for. Of course, it had taken me thirty-nine years and a painful divorce from my husband of ten years. But that was all worth it, I told myself,…

By: Natalie Edwards “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~Carl Jung Three years ago I was on top of the world after realizing I had fallen in love with my best friend. Relationships this rare are beautiful, until one vital piece of them breaks down:…

By: Harriet Cabelly “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” ~Proverb Two years ago, after hearing Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, talk about setting up one’s own blog, I went home and did just that. It had been something I…

By:  Heidi Juniper “Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to[…]  It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention.”  ~Harriet G. Lerner, The Dance of Anger My journey to authentic safety began, at long last, with my discovery of my own anger. Anger is my least favorite emotion. I don’t even…

By: Psychic Rhonda Sooo..your current job has run its course. Some of you may feel over-worked and underpayed, some of you may just be seeking a career change or perhaps the work enviroment is just too negative. Regardless of what your reasons are, I think everyone can agree when you are fed up, work becomes…

By: Vironika Tugaleva “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~Buddha In 2012, self-love became the most important thing in my life. After self-loathing and addiction led me to rock bottom, there was nowhere to go but up. When someone asked me last year how long I’d…

 By: Patty Richmond “Forgiving someone doesn’t mean that their behavior was ‘OK.’ What it does mean is that we’re ready to move on. To release the heavy weight. To shape our own life, on our terms, without any unnecessary burdens. Forgiveness is pure freedom—and forgiveness is a choice.” ~Dr. Suzanne Gelb I remember the feeling…

 By: Melissa McCaughan “Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.” ~John de Paola After six months of being single after my divorce, I wanted to date again. I was still afraid of failure and rejection, but I wanted to try. I felt the best way to get over it…

By: Sonya Derian “After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.” ~Samuel Rutherford I was talking to someone this week about his feeling that things weren’t happening fast enough. That with all he was doing, intending, and putting out there more should be happening,…

 By: Cloris Kylie Stock “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~Mary Engelbreit We all know at least one person who we think needs a self-help course or book more than we do. They’re the “wrong” ones, at least in our minds. I…

By: Psychic Rhonda So lately you have spent the majority of your nights pacing the floor and being torn between being patient or walking away. Whether your relationship with someone else’s mate was planned or not one thing is for sure, you have found the situation much harder than you anticipated. You may have told…