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 …
Tag: self-compassion
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 …
Control Issue
When my life feels out of sorts and like I just can’t get a hold of things, kind of out of control, it becomes easy for me to become judgmental or to start trying to tell other people what they should do to improve their lives, in an effort to make myself “feel” better. It …
Practice believing.
We all want someone else to be kind to us, to believe in us, to support us, and encourage us, and tell us we are doing a good job. To include us and make us feel good about ourselves. And that is great if we have it. But I want to ask you, are you …
The Condition of Being Human
Last week I read, “Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” – Henri Nouwen I think I can come across as “just think positive, on God’s Truth, and all will be well” sometimes, which I do believe. But I also believe that we must allow what we feel. We must learn to …
Practicing What I Say
This verse keeps coming to mind…. Listen, those of you who are boasting, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to another city and spend some time and go into business and make heaps of profit!” But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that …
stop. start.
It might just be me, my problem/struggle, but I think maybe I am not alone. We tend to beat ourselves up for mistakes no matter how big or small. We tend to ruminate on the thing we said wrong, the thing we forgot to do, the situation we responded poorly towards. As I’ve thought about …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 