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Dig Below the ‘Fine, Thanks’ Façade & Awaken to Love.

Awakening to love, and reconnecting with your heart, is living with presence, bravery and vulnerability. It's a willingness to accept it all, moment to moment -- the good times, the painful times, the perfections, the fuck-ups, the triumphs and the spectacular failures.

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Bob Mathias on how to Master the Art of Self-Confidence.

Here’s the thing: we often think that the empty space is just a stage to pass through. We think it’s a transition state, a moment of uncertainty on the way to something else. But it can be much more than that. The empty space is where we grow. The empty space is where we develop ...

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The Power and Pitfalls of Using Meditation in Times of Crisis.

We can completely lose our sense of self and reality when PTSD symptoms haunt us in the form of nightmares, flashbacks that are visceral or visual, crying spells, numbing or withdrawing, panic attacks, drowning in intense moods and feelings, rageful outbursts, acute conflict, vulnerability to ...

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Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind, Unless I Don’t Agree with You, in Which Case, F*ck Off!

We are a society programmed by conditioning. Our lives are one big Pavlov’s dog experiment. When I lose weight, I will love myself. When I get the job I want, I will feel self-worth. When I fall in love, I will feel happy. And last but not least, if I shame someone else, I will somehow feel ...

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I Have Murder-Fatigue: Pondering the Bullet Points.

Sadly, I can continue with this topic, but for what purpose? Will one emotion eventually outdo the other? Hell, while I’m at it, I could shift topics and list the sadness and anger I feel for myself and for too many of my friends and countless other women around the world who have been abused, ...

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Thank Your Pain and Liberate It.

Sometimes the mere memory of a traumatic experience is too painful to even be conscious of, so we suppress it. When we bury our pain, it is still a part of us, only now it is functioning as a shadow aspect. Even if we are unaware of our unconscious parts, we don’t need to know exactly what we ...

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Raise Responsible Rebels to Transform the Next Generation.

We withhold affection, appreciation, and affiliation when our children show us parts of themselves that we can’t tolerate or don’t like, and we embrace and praise them when they do as we please. While we are busy role-modeling, reinforcing, and rewarding good behavior, and punishing, shaming, ...

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Albert Einstein’s Incredible Work Ethic: Lessons on Creativity and Contribution.

Whatever it is for you, our lives were meant to be spent making our contribution to the world, not merely consuming the world that others create.

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Bohemian Horoscopes: July 2016.

Expect power-plays in close relationships around July 7-8. If you try to do too much, then you’ll just end up feeling super stressed. So pace yourself, Crabs, take things one step at a time, and try not to take offense when others make silly or insensitive remarks. Things pick up around July ...

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Energetic Boundaries 101: Four Intuitive Steps to Guide Highly Sensitive Children.

The prevailing messages in most parenting books and articles are to discipline children as a united front, and not give them an opening to split and triangulate you. But what if they are acting up -- and they often are -- because they are tuning into your stuck energy and unresolved wounds? ...

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