The best self-care often does not cost a lot…of money or time. The best self-care is often free. Sometimes the best self-care is consuming less caffeine. Sometimes the best self-care is saying “I forgive you.” Sometimes the best self-care is saying, “I’m...
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Pictured above is me in 2007 when I had just completed a half-marathon and had spent my life dieting versus Present Day (refusing to diet EVER again). It would be nice to think that in this day and age, we have finally found effective means to help people...
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I choose me. What does it feel like? To love yourself. To choose you. When your whole life you were taught to love everyone else? I look in the mirror. How did my self get so tattered and worn? To let my soul go, Become so weary and forlorn. I thought of the...
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She was scared from the start, This much she knew, How it began she knew not, But this much held true. The world was full of beauty and terror, Love and pain, Fear and courage, Loss and gain, Ups and downs; A roller coaster for sure. To survive the trek, She...
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You see, all these years post-loss, I have been hammering pieces and parts. Building the home all this time, Even though I had not recognized it at all. Nine years a widow, “Homeless” because his heart was my home. But I was never meant to take...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.