self care
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Butterfly Bill & the Magical Butterfly Birthing Tree
I have a magical butterfly birthing tree on my balcony. When I first witnessed a butterfly being born on one December morning before Christmas it felt like a gentle miracle. It was the messenger of hope-fullness, transformation & beauty I didn't know I had needed so much until it arrived, coaxed into a premature departure from 'the womb' by my Staffy X, Crumpet, who'd taken an interest in the butterfly hatching, his wet nose nudging it into first flight, an unlikely kind of midwife...and then she was gone, on her way to greet the wild world.
By Marissa Cooke5 years ago in Longevity
Of What it Takes to Rest
Someone once told me, "There is nothing better for the traumas of the brain, than to sit by moving water,". All the flashes of glimmering waters supposably do charitable work for the mind. Along with my friend, myself, and other colleagues were a part of a unique working-class: employed full-time, but not paid enough for our careers. So we each pursued hobbies that made money. We were the one-hundred-hour-a-week crew in town.
By C.K. Douglas5 years ago in Longevity
Life's Big Questions: Why You Should Take Out Extra Time For Self-Reflection
This article was originally published at rochizalani.com I had a lot of those ‘life’s big questions’ growing up: Why do grown-ups have these things that they call ‘jobs’ and why do they have to do it every day? Why do we have to ‘work’ and ‘build a career’ anyway? What purpose does it solve, really? Why should I go to bed early? Why not have only a bowl of maggie for dinner?
By Rochi Zalani5 years ago in Longevity
Long Time Love
Leaving the life once I thought was perfect , I felt angered, betrayed, disgusted with myself for being used and abused in love with someone who lied, cheated committed every underhanded , petty deceitful act he could to work out his harmful and criminal reckonings because inadequate small and creepy people do that. Yet I doubted myself and my own strengths, my own integrity, if I loved him how could leave him? Eventually , I had to stop covering him and take care of myself, In five years time I 'd attempted suicide twice, became agoraphobic, drug addicted and alcohol dependent, I took sleeping pills, anti anxiety medication, and washed it all down with booze. Everyday at happy hour I made myself white Russians, vodka and milk sweetly flavored with kahlua on the rocks consumed 3-6 a day, and I wasn't happy, Can't say what exactly moved me to walk out on the Life I created with myself and the Creep, but I did it. packed up the VW with few belongings, left furniture, photos, books, clothes, my own house to leave the lying cheating little worm and drove as far as I could, across the country to another state and settled into a small house where I knew no one and didn't realize how sick I was or what recovery would take at the late age of 64. I found myself suffering drug and alcohol withdrawals, on my own, I couldn't find a doctor, I had very little money and I was alone.
By Susy Godet5 years ago in Longevity
Goodbye My Friend Cigarette
So I was in a long term relationship with my good friend Cigarette. We first met when I was 15 years old and we’ve been close friends ever since. When I first met her she made me feel special. She made me feel like I fit in. She accepted me regardless of who I was. She was introduced to me by my friends who already accepted her into the squad. I’ve always heard about her and even seen her around in my family but I never thought that she would want to meet me.
By Samantha Rodriguez5 years ago in Longevity
Stingy
In 2021, I will be a stingy therapist friend. I know, I know, it sounds horrible. 2020 was the worst year in recent history. I mean, for all. On all levels, personal, large scale, all of it. It felt very biblical. As if God’s wrath - if you believe in that sort of thing- was specifically vengeful toward everyone. How special. Throughout everything, my most profound revelation was that everyone needed more than what any one could give. The most beautiful trait of humanity is that when tragedy strikes, people truly want to help one another. And that is the exact thing none of us were allowed to do. Coming together was illegal. So why now, of all times, do I pledge to be emotionally miserly?
By Kirby Porterfield 5 years ago in Longevity
Becoming The Best Version of Myself
I know I write about this a lot and I talk about this a lot, but it is something that I truly believe is super important for everyone to keep in mind, and that topic is self-love and learning how to become the best version of yourself. This is something that we are not taught in school, and I’m sure that many of you can relate to me when I say that my parents never taught me about these type of things either. Don’t get me wrong, I love my parents very much and I am super appreciative of everything they have always done for me to this day, but if it is something that I wish they would have taught me more about is self-love and learning how to become the best version of myself. It has been a long and rough road, but I have loved it up to this day. I still am learning how to better myself to this day, and I feel like we all can still learn something new about ourselves no matter how much we think we know ourselves. I want to talk to you all about my experience and how I felt throughout the entire time I decided to make this big change for me, and I also hope to make a big enough impact to one of my readers where they decide to do this type of change for themselves as well.
By Andrea Minjarez5 years ago in Longevity
Being Good Enough
While growing up, I struggled with self-love. As a matter of fact, I knew nothing about self-love. Both of my self-esteem and confidence were incredibly low. They were so low, you would think that they were buried at least six feet under. I did not feel like a person who was worthy of anything. I did not feel like I was good enough. For a very long time, I felt like a submissive, peasant living in a world of dominant kings and queens. My experiences of being bullied in my childhood and toxic relationships drove me to searching for love elsewhere – when the real love starts from within all along.
By Leona Valentine5 years ago in Longevity
Criteria To Choose The Best Hair Transplant Surgeon In India
India: the land of diversity has always been an attractive destination for tourists all across the globe not just because it showcases diversity in every aspect including culture, language, geography, weather but also because the country has a very rustic charm.
By Lucifer Ralf5 years ago in Longevity
The Vole King
I am so hungry I'm beginning to see things I thought. I had been traveling along this road for days now and I could not be far from my destination, but the more I rattled on without food in my belly, the slower and weaker I had become. If it had been up to me I would have eaten well before I left the last town, but sadly, it was not up to me. It is often not up to me. That is why I left home in the first place. To travel to a place where it would be up to me; a veritable land of milk and honey. I had not been the only one. I had been with a group within a group. It was a migration. Many of us stopped in the last town for food and rest but we found the town was being overrun with illness. It was a vile, breath-stealing plague that seemed to sweep the land just as we had arrived. Like many, I fell ill quickly. My traveling companions, easy rest their souls, did not abandon me but stayed behind to care for me and soon fell ill themselves. Sadly, they both succumbed quickly. For whatever reason, I did not succumb, and when I could breathe again I found that many of the travelers had moved on, were ill, or dead.
By Lei Williams5 years ago in Longevity
