Understanding Our Ancestral Traumas Helps Us Forgive
My family wasn’t exactly the normal everyday family that was simple, down to earth, and focused on being there for each other. Since our immigration to the U.S. my parents lost their stability and struggled very hard to reestablish themselves in a foreign country they knew nothing about.
Dealing with Loneliness (Part 2): 4 Things You Can Do to Overcome Loneliness
Sometimes the very idea of permanence is what keeps us stuck in a loop of self-pity which perpetuates the feeling of loneliness.
Dealing with Loneliness (Part 1): Identifying the Type of Loneliness You’re Experiencing
The dictionary definition of loneliness simply states: Feeling sad or unhappy because one has no friends or company. However, anyone who has experienced more than a few days of loneliness can probably attest it’s never as simple and straightforward as that.
3 Easy Practices to Feel More Confident in Bed
Feeling more comfortable in the bedroom starts long before you are in bed with someone. Whether you are single and mingling or in a long-term relationship, we all want to embody confidence in the bedroom.
Accepting and Honoring Your Life Purpose
Finding our life purpose isn’t always a clear and easy journey. Most of us take many detours, trials and errors until we find that thing we know we have to do and keep doing.
What I’ve Learned from My Self-Improvement Journey
While I am glad I have healers to look up to, healing inherently is an individualized journey. My healing will not look like anyone else’s, but I often fail to miss this important distinction.
Turning My Love of Gardening and Healthy Eating into a Business of Helping Others: An Interview with Ashley Irene
There was a great sense of pride and honor in growing food. I feel that sense of pride is returning, and with a beautiful vengeance. Because more and more people are realizing the kind of damage that has been done to our planet as well as our health over the years and want to make some changes.
Happier Parenting: An Interview with Ben Yau
I wanted to raise my kids by working on myself to become a happier person knowing the side effect of that will be my kids picking up my characteristics.
How to Get Comfortable with Vulnerability
Vulnerability is an act of courage, that can lead us to deeper and more intimate connections. But being vulnerable is by no means easy or painless.
Rebuilding Self-Trust and Trust in Others
Trusting ourselves is a fundamental quality we must develop in order to trust others. We often see the world through our own lenses, therefore projecting our own self-doubts onto the people around us.
Coping with Depression in the Summer
However, emotional meltdowns and life events do not stick to a planned schedule, and feeling depressed during this season can be lonely and frustrating because the environment seems too cheerful for anyone to understand.
12 Tiny Changes that can Get You Out of a Static Life Pattern
Tiny changes in your daily routine can sometimes make a surprisingly big impact. It may not be noticeable at first, but it can start a chain reaction that propels a series of other changes in every area of your life.
A Closer Look at Emotional Boundaries and How to Establish Resilience
If we are peaceful and compassionate beings at our core, then by logic, any other strong emotional responses are preprogrammed or taught by external environments.
4 Steps to Establish Emotional Boundaries for Highly Sensitive People
The first step in establishing boundaries is to give yourself permission to feel what you feel, as well as giving others permission to do the same.
Finding and Connecting with More Like-Minded People
If you are tired of superficial relationships that bear little fulfillment and want deeper connections you can build on, then your only option is to be brave, open up about your inner world, and let other people in.
4 Powerful Reasons Why You Should Ask For Help When Needed
We naturally want to be of service to those in need. We love the opportunity to better someone’s life or experience. So why is it that when it’s our turn to ask for help we fear and hesitate?
From Hoping, to Believing, to Knowing
When you experience life by means of only happiness, fear, doubt, and insecurities become so obscured that you no longer pay attention to them. They become ever so insignificant because your focus on creating happiness is larger than life itself.
4 Steps to Love and Accept Yourself More Unconditionally
Are you blessed with a constant sense of feeling loved and supported no matter what, or have you always wondered what that’s like?
6 Ways to Restore Faith in Your Heart’s Guidance
Every single life form in the universe orbits around a core nucleus. Whether you’re an atom, a human, a planet, or a solar system, you revolve around a magnetic pull in an ecosystem of existence. That nucleus for us, humans, is our heart.
21 Days of Life-Changing Mantras for Love, Abundance, and Harmony
A mantra is a verbal habit that helps create or support a mental habit. When repeated over and over again, it creates new patterns of thinking and beliefs in our minds.
An improv class unexpectedly deepened my meditation practice by teaching me how to let go, be present, and embrace creative flow—on stage and in life.