healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Out of Rock Bottom
I was 26 when my pipe-dream of owning a boutique coffee roasting company spiraled into a full-blown reality. Five years of gut blood and mind sweat rewarded me with an incomprehensible wealth of knowledge and "real-world" experience. Now 32, I'm separated from my wife and mother of my two-year-old daughter, unemployed, $250,000 in debt, dating a 21 year-old sex worker and living in the basement of my father's condominium.
By Jared Field5 years ago in Motivation
these hands
Triumphantly, punching my chest, clenched fist, three times. Boom, boom boom. I need to remind myself of it. Remind myself not to judge the oddly few bad times, remind myself of the achievements, remind me of the legacy we created together. For it is through our children, who will remain once we are gone, that I mark myself and remind me not to drop my head. It was our love that created them firstly and foremost, and it is our love that sustains and empowers them.
By paolo Paul denaro5 years ago in Motivation
The sky's the limit
The sky's the limit Do you ever just lift your eyes to the sky to snag a glimpse of the never ending beauty in the fluffiest clouds or even the anger of storm clouds lingering overhead? It is mesmerizing on so many levels. Escaping the bustle of the city with its anonymity and coldness has been our plan for such a very long while, most likely before we even realized that it was our destiny. As life’s journey leads us on the twists and turns of each phase, we gather knowledge, dreams, desires that in the farthest reaches of my mind were cultivating the need for peace, love and harmony. Not to appear too cliche for me and mine, we both traveled many miles and survived personal struggles so when destiny brought our broken wandering souls together it was meant to be. Fueled by the elements of coastal life and our love of nature lead us to this place we now call home.
By Carolee Baumgartner5 years ago in Motivation
Lessons in Loneliness
I can't recall a time loneliness has ever approached me as gently as it has recently. I could source the reason for this emotion on many external factors, one of them being blatantly obvious, but to do that would feel like missing the point. Loneliness is not an emotion that's foreign to me as I've felt it for most of my life. Loneliness and I could even have been considered close friends in the past, but it has never risen within me the way it has recently.
By Alexandria5 years ago in Motivation
The Prison's we sentence ourselves to
One of the worst things you can do in life is anything that puts you in a prison. The majority of you who read that probably thought the reference was to breaking the law. That's only one example. Life has become so much more complex than just abiding by the letter of the law. There are so many more rules we must abide by adhere to or face a punishment of some kind. Plus there's such a miniscule margin of error, that if we don't do all these things flawlessly, we could find ourselves in other types of prisons. Or worse, put someone else in a prison like a hospital bed for life after a night of celebrating that promotion you stayed just well inside the margin of error for three years to get. To put in such long, grueling hours, day after day.Getting out of bed on time to make it in to work punctually, skipping lunches and staying later than your boss Month after month, to get that extra step ahead of friends who sit next to you at your job only to make that one mistake of NOT stopping your celebrating early enough, sentencing someone you never met to the prison of a hospital bed, in need of constant medical treatmentor worse, the most permanent of prisons, death. While you are in prisoned, not just behind bars, but within the cage of guilt your conscience has put your soul in forever all because you weren't flawless for that one evening. For as far as we've progressed and evovled, we've also made less room for error in society, My error was not paying as close attention to my high blood pressure. Not being flawless about that aspect of my health caused a clot to form in by circulatory system. On one October evening in 2019, a piece of that clot broke off and traveled to a blood vessel in my brain causing an iscemic stroke. That stroke has forever paralyzed the left side of my body. sentencing me to a lifetime of not being able to move my left arm. At first it also mean't not being able to move my left leg as well. Inprisoning me to the use of a wheelchair for what I thought would be forever as well. We made things so complicated and complex that the margin for error has become so small, that nearly all of us has a good chance of losing a freedom we currently take for granted and being placed in a prison of some kind.Whether it's iron bars, a gulag of guilt, a hospital bed or a wheelchair. It's nearly impossible to avoid it. There is hope that you can release yourself from these prison's after being sentenced to live within them. Either serve your prison term, forgive your self and/or receive forgiveness from those you've harmed. Or choose to get your life back and become obsessed to regain the freedom you lost by working sunrise to sunset to rebuild your body. I lost 131 pounds and made myself strong again to get out of my prison, my wheelchair. I no longer need to be pushed by someone else to get down a hall or up a stairway. I stand up and walk it myself now.We must be flawless in life from maintaining our health, avoiding impaired driving, being careful in what we write, tweet, post online or it could cost us our source of income or reputation. Plus being being careful in what words we say and who we say those words to. I do find myself in another kind of prison now and it's in the form of medical bill debt. But that's a story for another time and I wanna go for a walk. Let Freedom Reign.
By Randall Wright5 years ago in Motivation
5 Things I Learned During The Pandemic
If you are anything like me, you want this pandemic to end. Not only has it cost thousands of lives and put other’s health at risk, but it has also significantly hindered the quality of life of just about everyone, both individually and within the leadership world. But as the quote above suggests, challenges can be a disguised way to foster new perspectives and opportunities. So, as negative and unfavorable as this year has been, I want to shed some light on the situation as it stands and the amazing realizations that have surfaced as a result of it.
By Kimberly Seabrooks5 years ago in Motivation
The Way It Was
A childhood not that different from some but a world apart from so many. I was raised the eldest of five, our parents were there most of the time, our grandparents, aunts and uncles stepped in where they could and we had a place to call home. Simple, normal, nothing to be concern about right, on the outside we were whole, happy, a typical family unit.
By Blackbird5 years ago in Motivation
Change
This week I have learned the fine art of binge watching. This is never a luxury that I have had. I have been sitting down and watching a TV series for the last week. It is a good one, crime, murder, and the good guy wins. It is interesting to me more because it is a show that would never be approved by the community.
By Cori Melton5 years ago in Motivation
The Reflection in the Slow Down
A society that equates busyness with productivity is a society that can become detrimentally distracted. We’ve all seen the quotes on social media about always hustling and never sleeping, the hundreds of videos swearing by the benefits of waking up at 4 or 5am every morning, giving tips and tricks to become the most successful or productive that you ever have. As we’ve seen this kind of content quite often, especially as the rise of self-help came to compliment it, some of us may have taken the bait.
By Alexandria5 years ago in Motivation
