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The past can keep us imprisoned if we don’t learn to let go of painful memories, preventing us from moving on in a healthier, happier way.

Why We Feel Stuck & the Key to Dealing with It

Lesya Li
We humans often tend to get in our own way –– whether it comes to going back to toxic relationships, not speaking or standing up for ourselves, or giving up on that new diet we know could help us, instead, we stay right where we are in life, stuck in a rut not making any progress. And making progress is one of the keys to lifelong happiness, is it not? We were told why bad habits are so hard to break, and plenty of research suggests that. We know that we actually have two brains: one thoughtful, superconscious, deliberate, and the other is the automatic self that makes up most decisions sometimes without us even noticing it. That's why we often feel stuck, but there is the key to dealing with it. Read More...

How to Find Strength After Losing Someone You Love

Karen Schlaegel
A lot of people have heard of the five stages of grief (aka "Kübler-Ross model"). They were developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Denial >> Anger >> Bargaining >> Depression >> Acceptance Fewer people know that the model arose from her work with terminally ill patients (as opposed to people dealing with a bereavement). Only subsequently was it applied to all forms of grief. It’s also been widely misunderstood as it was never meant to be viewed as a linear process nor that all stages apply to all people. "Kübler-Ross model" model can help us make sense of our own experiences but it shouldn’t be seen as validation nor is it a mold that our own experiences need to fit into. Read More...

3 Effective Ways to Reverse a Toxic Relationship

Matthew Boyle
All of us at least once in our life experienced being in a toxic relationship. You probably know what it's like to move in and out of a state of total denial about how unhealthy and codependent it truly is. Perhaps, at one moment, you feel at the top of the world, yet at another, you are making tiny excuses trying to justify a partner’s absolutely inexcusable behavior. So is there a way to reverse a toxic relationship?  Read More...

5 Simple and Healthy Ways to Detox Your Life

Lesya Li
Why it's important to detox your life? Let's face it, not only our bodies are full of toxins, but our entire life is also. Often times, we take on more than we have to without realizing the dire impact that it all has on our lives. We live in a fast and ever-changing world and the very need to detoxify your life is a result of a busy, overscheduled and overwhelmed lifestyle that miraculously has been accepted by most people as a norm. Learn how to detox your life in a week with these simple and healthy steps. Read More...

Why Breakups are Devastating and How to Heal From Pain

Lesya Li
Have you ever had to go through a devastating breakup; the kind of breakup when you were hurting deeply, and it felt rather unlikely ever to find healing and bounce back from being an emotional wreck sobbing on the bathroom floor. Breakups do that to us; they rip us into million shreds from the inside out, and the emotional pain can be unbearable. But let’s pause for a moment and investigate why is that so? Why do breakups unstitch us so spectacularly and how can we heal from pain? Read More...

How to Find Peace and Joy & Release Deep Emotional Pain

Kit Casey
Until you allow yourself to fully embrace that you are 100% responsible for writing your own future, there will be always this slight disconnect between where you are and what you think about where you’re at. You can always choose to turn pain into incredible power. Start working out where the pain stems from, understand that there's a lesson to be learned, and turn your new knowledge into massive positive action, and see yourself coming through any suffering a stronger, more resilient person. Read More...

How to Remarkably Improve Your Life with Minimalism

Chris Lovett
Simplicity has its beauty, and it always boils down to eliminating the excess in our lives. And yet media and society try hard to convince us that having more stuff should be the goal and the answer to anything. But is having more actually improving the quality of our lives? Do more possessions add real value to our days? Do more commitments in our diaries help us feel less overwhelmed? Does always chasing the latest gadget on the market helps us feel happier? Hang on, is having more even feasible, especially for those of us who are struggling to make ends meet and pay monthly bills on time? Many people can barely afford enough, let alone more. That's where Minimalism can help to remarkably improve your life on all levels. Read More...

How to Recover From Loss and Survive Grief

Audrey Wojciechowski
Grief becomes a scar on the part of our soul that survives. In a lot of cases, we will probably never completely get over the loss of this person. But there might be elements of good news in that loss. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals correctly—it still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. Read More...
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