We are all telling ourselves a story with our thoughts. Our thoughts generate our emotions. Our emotions are sustained by the story we tell. Too often we are telling ourselves an unhelpful story. We think we must tell ourselves this story. We think this story is just true. But I have found that it is …
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The Story I Am Telling Myself – 2
The stories we tell ourselves have power. When I realized the power we have to choose the story we tell ourselves, I had to acknowledge the story I was telling myself about me, about my decisions, about my finances, about my worth, about my life. I had to choose to pay attention to the story …
Wherever You Go.
Wherever you go. However you get there. There you will be. You bring all of you wherever you go. We cannot “escape” ourselves. We take all our insecurities, fears, hopes, dreams, everything, all of us, with us wherever we go. Which sounds so straight forward but I think sometimes people think they can leave part …
At Home with Yourself.
One of the greatest gifts in life is learning to be at home with yourself. Being willing to be where you are, to feel what you feel, and practice self-compassion. It is a gift to ourselves when we witness our own life and our own experiences without judgment. We create safety for ourselves by being …
Believe.
Our beliefs are the thoughts that we have practiced thinking over and over again. We have to practice believing a new thought in order to begin to act a different way. Our brains form pathways. We think a thought and our body responds based on the pathway we have created over time. If we want …
A New Way.
I used to be stuck in a cycle of seeing everything that was wrong, then I decided to open my eyes to everything that was right. I used to try to do all the things I thought were “right” that would create the results I wanted, but I constantly felt like I messed up, fell …
Mind Management.
A life changing realization for me was realizing I could learn to manage my mind. I had always assumed that what I thought was just what I thought but I came to understand the power I have to choose my thoughts! I realized my power to change my experience of my life by changing the …
Fear of Rejection.
We all fear rejection to a certain extent, some of us more than others. As humans we long to belong. We want to be loved and accepted by others. When we think that we are going to get “kicked out” of the tribe it incites a fear response in us. This is our natural human …
The Old Man and the Sea.
I listened to Ernest Hemingway’s book The Old Man and the Sea this week. Initially, I thought it was terrible. I said as much when I got home last night after finishing the book. Dean looked the book up and said it was about perseverance. My thought was, “yeah but he got nothing for his …
Thankfully God Has Shown Me…
A big part of my transformation came as I learned to, trained myself to believe in God’s love for me. Not just believe that God is love but that God loves me, as I am, even if I never improve. Also, learning to, training myself to receive the love God has for me. Believing in …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 