healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Motivation to Thrive
Can you walk with me? Can you let go of the details and breathe with me from your diaphragm(places hand on the diaphragm for visual instruction), and release the tension beneath your skull and between those shoulders. Breathing from the diaphragm ensures complete oxygen intake to your muscles without putting tension on your shoulders as when breathing from the lungs. Yes, expand that lower stomach and feel the fresh air flow into your lower belly and back up through your lungs. Let the air, warm from its journey, escape from your nostrils. Soon we will go to a place only reached in the mind. But first, notice the trees.
By Brigida Levonna6 years ago in Motivation
Resolutions and Abuse
The New Year, came and went just like every other year and just like every other year so did all of the resolutions I had come up with: losing weight, being healthier, quitting all of my terrible habits. Yeah none of those things happened, they weren’t even in the realm of happening. I tried for awhile bought some stuff that was advertised for me on all the social media websites I regularly check into. Made a meal plan, I even went and got some new workout stuff. Well then life happened. Same old me came and faced me in the mirror and was like who are you kidding; you make the same resolutions every year and to no avail you always fail.
By Alison Williams6 years ago in Motivation
Grace's Diner
"Then Grace" has lived a hard life. Weathered by her existence as the owner of a bus stop diner in the Midwest of the 1950's her face is a road map. Wrinkles and lines represent the people she has met, counseled, loved and lost. The darkness around her eyes illustrates her many experiences and tragedies. The glimmer in her tired eyes, however, gives a glimpse into the miracles that have come her way.
By Barbara Higgins6 years ago in Motivation
2020: A Year of Maybes
Maybe it was what it was meant to be, what we needed. 2020 has become a year when life was put on pause with no one knowing when it would resume or if it ever would pick up back from where it left off again. Taking all the excuses away because we have nowhere to be and no one to see.
By M F6 years ago in Motivation
Reflection
I'm a writer by trade. It's literally my job to write films and stuff for television. I know many writers that have said that COVID lockdown, has done wonders for their writing life. They've written more than they have in years. Well... lucky them. If anything, lockdown has had the complete opposite effect on me. I've hardly written a thing.
By Rebecca Smith6 years ago in Motivation
Mom's Closet
The other day, my mom cleaned out my old closet at her house to make room for a built in desk so she has a nice place to continue working remotely. She packed up everything that I left there and she drove it to the town I live in. I knew I didn't need all of those old things. We met in the Home Depot parking lot and I moved all of those old things to my boyfriend's truck. I spread it all out on his living room floor and I started picking through all of the old, painful, sometimes joyful parts of my life. These are the things that I learned.
By Casey Hemphill6 years ago in Motivation
It's Ok To Be A Victim: an excerpt
So often we are told to "stop playing victim" and "to get over it already, " oh and my personal favorite, "you ain't the first you won't be the last." These ideals can form mental barriers to vulnerability and this proved more than true for me. It have had to take time to accept that I have been raped one more than one occassion. One can't call themselves a survivor if they are still just surviving. It's become a norm in various cultures to just bury hurt and sorrow beneath layers of concrete defense mechanisms only for it to one day break through to the surface peaking out of its festering darkness into nourishing sunlight.
By Angela Mackie6 years ago in Motivation
