Tag: Friendship
When Your Friend’s Negativity Is Ruining Your Friendship
Have you ever had a friend’s negativity ruin your friendship? No matter how hard you try to correct the course their negativity requires boundaries. Friendships, like all relationships, thrive on balance and mutual support. But what happens when negativity creeps in—particularly from someone you care about deeply? When a friend’s constant negativity starts to weigh […]
Grow and Let Go: Self-Worth Post-Toxicity
Well, that didn’t go right. Leaving a negative relationship is not easy and finding your self-worth post-toxicity can be challenging. Entering a relationship with enthusiasm is natural. We often believe it’s the best thing in the world, a heady feeling while it lasts. Unfortunately, in a toxic relationship, the realization of its true nature […]
Embracing Family Challenges: Strategies for Summer Gatherings
Surviving the Summer Visit Home: Setting Realistic Expectations It is time for the dreaded summer gathering with family. Summer often conjures images of sun-soaked days and carefree relaxation, but it also heralds the season of family reunions. While some gatherings with loved ones are joyful and refreshing, others can be challenging, testing our patience and […]
Using Tarot to Understand Situations
I have needed to understand situations in my life and struggled. Perhaps I have been too close to them — the situations. I clearly was not thinking objectively. So I pulled out my Tarot deck and asked “what am I missing in this situation?” Five cards later, and deep reflection I saw it. It was […]
Weekly Affirmation – All is Well
When you are full of love and acceptance, all is well. This is tough for some people. I know because I struggled for years with it. This is where affirmations assist me. I believe that it can help you too. Affirmations give you something to focus on and changes your mindset. This change in your […]
Weekly Affirmation – Grateful for Friendship
I am grateful for friendship. Friends make life more worth living. Sometimes our families are not that loving and it is the love we find in friendship that helps us love ourselves finally. Friends are the family that we make when our own family falls away or disappoints us. This week’s affirmation […]
Secrets to Emotional Well-Being
5 Essential Secrets to Emotional Well-Being Emotional well-being is something that we all struggle with at times. Your emotions help dictate your state of mind. This means that to keep your state of mind intact, it’s necessary to have emotional balance. That way, you can make it through even the toughest times. You can enhance […]
Not Everyone Looks Forward to Thanksgiving
Not everyone looks forward to Thanksgiving. Some people, myself included, associate the holiday not as a joyous one but one to survive. This year, I am feeling it deeply. I grew up in a huge messy family. We all have splintered across the US. The memories of cooking for days, going to the Broadway Market […]
Ways to Talk to Strangers Comfortably
Ways to Talk to Strangers Comfortably We spend our childhoods being told to never speak to strangers but then discover as we grow up, we need to do just that, repeatedly. Some strangers are more comfortable to talk to, such as shop clerks or servers in restaurants. Others though, are often more complicated, such as […]
It is neither Positive nor Negative
We often misread energy that is around us. Often it is our lack of understanding of this energy and that it is neither positive nor negative, it is our perception of that energy. What is positive to the spider is negative to the fly in its web. There are two types of reactions to energy […]