By: Sara Fabian “I am worthy of the best things in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.” ~Louise Hay Looking back on my life, I see that for a long time I struggled to take care of my own wants and needsand didn’t make them a priority. I used to find that very…

By: Melissa Renzi “If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life—and only then will I be free to become myself.” ~Martin Heidegger If you are a lifelong anxiety warrior like me, you’ve been on a journey of…

By: Jon Waterlow “The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.” ~Yasutani Roshi You know those moments? Those brief, fleeting moments that shine through the grey of everyday life like motes of glitter caught in a sunbeam. The moments when you suddenly feel a connection to the…

By Melissa Terrels “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi My ex used to stomp out of the house every time we had an argument. Literally, he would leave. And usually before he left he’d smash something. One time…

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: 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: Psychic Rhonda You may have consulted a psychic and have been told to give things time. This to me is a very difficult thing to do especially when going through a rough patch with your partner because it can put you in a state of emotional limbo..feeling as though absence will either push you…

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 Janette As far I can remember, I have always had jealous people around me. Was it my cousin, my siblings or someone else who is trying his all tricks to drive me away from someone I dearly love. When I was a kid, it was my cousin who was jealous of that chance…

 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: Amaya Pryce “Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.” ~Epictetus  Are you addicted to drama? I was, but I didn’t know it. I thought I was just responding to life, to what was happening….