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.
Let Go
How to Heal and Recover After Ending a Friendship
“Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie Some friendships end with a bang. Others...
Trust Your Path: When It’s Time to Break Free
It’s easy to get swept up in the hype of what everyone else is doing. It’s even more easy to lose yourself when you’re in a group following a certain path. I was part of a group of people who enrolled in a personal development course, and while it was a powerful and life changing course, something inside of me felt off. It was time to break free. Read More...
Loss & Grief: How I Found My Way Towards Healing
All the literature on grief seemed to be telling me my life would be in tatters for years. I was determined not to accept this. Running away from grief was not an option, but I could cycle through it. My late partner had wanted to cycle the British coast to coast in one day; I would take on the challenge in his memory. Read More...
When The Bottom Drops Out: How to Keep Living After Loss
Part of my role as a clinical psychologist working with someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one is to explain that the physical pain and sense of being lost are normal. It’s tough to handle, but it’s normal. Read More...
How to Find Inner Peace that Endures
By Tina Zarlenga “Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able...
4 Simple Ways to Break a Vicious Cycle
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a happier...
5 Bright Tips on How to Be Less Anxious
“I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.”...
How to Overcome Difficult Family Relationships
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now. –...
Accepting These 2 Things Will Improve All Your Relationships
By Jacky Exton Accepting These 2 Things Will Improve All Your Relationships I recently found myself at a gathering...
How to Get Courage, Wisdom, Serenity When You Need it The Most
I suspect you have heard the Serenity Prayer before. It was written by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the...
9 Reasons We Are Unable to Embrace Criticism
“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Aristotle Why...
How to Find Time for Yourself: 6 Bright Ideas
The most valuable thing that we can give to somebody is our time. We cannot turn it back...
One Helpful Thing For When You Are Dealing With Depression
By Haley Tiffany Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your...
3 Quick Ways to Silence Your Inner Critic
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare Most of us...
5 Joy-Sapping Regrets and How to Avoid Them
“Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue I...
Four Effective Ways to Stop Bullying in a Family
Unfortunately, in some families, bullying is an accepted behavior—this usually occurs because parents don’t know any other way. And so they continue parenting their kids the same way they were brought up. But that doesn’t make it right. Read More...
On Accepting, Feeling, and Releasing Painful Emotions
By Stephanie Noble-King The Only Way Out Is Through For those of you who had a penchant for...
One Amazing Thing That Happens When You Share Your Story
Change doesn’t come from some anomalous omnipresent superpower. It comes from regular people holding up their hands, using their voice and owning their story. I want to be able to have conversations that mean that in some small way emotional abuse isn’t ignored, brushed under the carpet and allowed to continue behind Read More...
How to Get a Little Perspective When Bad Things Happen
We all know that life never happens like you want it to. The good and the bad have their own way of unfolding and it never happens when you expect it to happen. You can try with all your might, but you’ll never be able to control it. Although you don’t have much control over what will happen to you, the one thing you do have complete control over is how you interpret it – your perspective. Read More...
What Happens When You Choose Judgment Over Compassion
Recently I've been thinking about times when we are judgmental of others. Why does it take so long to recognise that if we are judging others there is a little part of us that wants to be more or less like them? Read More...