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I’ve come to see that being human is a dance. Sometimes we are caught up in our thoughts, mainly about ourselves, e.g. my weight, my...

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which...

You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important - Abilene to Mae Mobley from the movie "The Help" I matter. How can I not matter? I am part...

It’s like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety...

"What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every...

There is enormous freedom in remembering how little we actually know. Dr. Amy Johnson I have three treasured friends experiencing major...

When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives." Kristin Neff I was going through a...

"A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can cange the course of your life." - Christopher K....

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot I coach because I spent a lot of time and effort...

"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud becasue they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the...

I’m in a gratitude group. We text daily. This month we’ve been appreciating gratitude through the lens of poetry. Today we read a...

Mariellen my stepmom died this week. She was my stepmom for over 40 years. She loved my sister Connie and I fiercely. She never had...

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door – Emily Dickinson Today my 81-year-old dad’s house cleaner quit. She’s the third...

Me: What could possibly go wrong? Anxiety: I'm glad you asked! A rush, a jolt, a ripple, a tingle. All energy. And the anxious narrator...

From Understanding comes love - Rumi For way too long, Paul, my husband, and I argued a lot. Simple disagreements could turn into loud,...

My brain is similar to a radar looking for threats, when it cannot find one, it expands its area to what could be threatening in the...

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...

"Every human being is sitting in the middle of mental health, they just don't know it." Sydney Banks A faulty premise that causes much...

To the brain, everything is about me and my. It is obsessed with itself. It loves to chat about my life, my job, my weight, etc. The...

Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom – Debasish Mridha MD I made a whopper of a mistake...