Our history is not our destiny. Alan Cohen And thank God for that, I say. Our History Is Not Our Destiny I cannot redeem:Hours I’ve wastedWords I wish I hadn’t saidOpportunities missedTime I spent crying over people who couldn’t or wouldn’t care I cannot :Ask the questions I wish I’d asked my parentsApologize to people […]
Self Acceptance and Self Care
What to Do When Self Care Isn’t Enough
Everyone needs to develop a self-love habit as you’re often the best person equipped to look after yourself. However, as much as you can focus on ways to take better care of yourself, this sometimes isn’t enough. Self-care is important, yes, but it can also become too overwhelming if you don’t let others in now […]
The Self Love Habit
With Valentine’s Day just past, it seems relevant to write about love. Self love. Self compassion. How can we make incorporate the self love habit into our daily lives? The Self Love Habit While I have written about self care several times here, I’d lie to stress that taking care of and loving oneself goes […]
Unfolding The Deck Chairs
You might think I’m yearning for a holiday! But actually, I’m sharing a lovely Charlie Brown ‘story’ about unfolding the deck chairs and my reflections on this. “Life,” Lucy tells Charlie Brown, “is like a deck chair.” “Like a what?” asks Charlie Brown. “Like a deck chair. Some people put their deck chair at the […]
Introvert Power
Today is World Introvert Day and it seemed like a perfect day to celebrate introvert power. It also seems like the perfect day to bring back a weekly feature that I used to have on this blog, which I later moved to the erstwhile WriteTribe until I stopped doing it altogether. Introvert Power Marnie listened […]
5 Books About Self Love
As you might have read from my posts at the start of this year, I chose ‘Metta’ as my Word of the Year for 2020 and shared how it meant taking care of myself first. When we talk or hear about self love, our mind, more often than not, jumps into the direction of selfishness. […]
