The amount of suffering and upheaval in the world is overwhelming, but I fare best when I focus instead on doing the little bits of good that are in my power to do where I am.
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How are you treating your broken places?
An unexpected outcome of paying more attention to how I talk about others has been a much greater awareness of how I talk to myself, especially about the broken places in my life. What began as an attempt to be more of a healing presence in the world around me has taught me a lot about supporting my own healing. Have you ever paid attention to how you treat your broken places?
Continue readingI am (still) not a nice person
Sometimes being a “not nice” person just might make you a kinder—and ultimately happier one—than you can imagine.
Continue readingThe freedom of judging favorably
The stories we tell about other people in our own minds have a powerful impact on our experience of reality. Are your judgments of others helping or hurting your experience of the world?
Continue readingRethinking self-care as thought-care
I am much more productive and happy when I approach my work and my chores from a place self-talk that reflects self-love than when I do the exact same things with self-talk that is self-bullying.
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