Tag: self worth

I know those feelings

The woman you see before you today is not the woman she used to be. I never would have done the things I do or said the things I say. Yet here I am. I know those thoughts of I can’t do it That fast beating heart The small constricted breaths Feeling weak in the

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Do you have a Coping Toolbox?

Life consistently presents us with challenges and changes and at times this can lead to us feeling stressed. Planning how to manage and cope in various life situations, and finding out which coping skills work best for you, is the key to succeeding with stress rather than experiencing distress. This post contains ideas for coping

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Boundaryless?

Being boundaryless is really fucking sexy. Before you get triggered read on… My husband is the ONLY man I will ever be boundaryless for. He is the only one who has earned the level of trust and safety it takes to feel that with a man. Do I believe women shouldn’t have boundaries with men?

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The Secret of Happiness

What does happiness mean to you? There’s a lot of searching going on these days for the elusive emotion of “being happy” –where do you find it, how do you create it, even what it actually is? But I’d like to share a little secret with you — happiness is not just for a lucky

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There is No Time Like Now

Most people in our world today are so busy running around trying to arrange their lives to be somewhere else. We all want to be somewhere else geographically or financially or in our relationships. We want to be anywhere but here as we’ve been led to believe that if only we can be somewhere else

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The Universe’s Basic Training

I watched and read a bit about Air Force Basic Training. How they not only want to teach you the military way, but they also want to break you down so that they can rebuild you according to the needs of the military. These are two of the underlying premises of your first few weeks,

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4 Simple Steps To Conquer your Self Esteem

You can win the battle over low self esteem with these 4 simple steps… Affirmations are simply positive things that you say out loud to yourself every day. This can be very difficult at times because you may not actually believe what you are saying. SO why would you say something to yourself that you

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Retract or Bloom?

With the amount of death in my life recently, and it seems others as well, I have noticed myself retracting. I mean it seems every time I log onto Facebook these days there is a new death being announced. And most of them dying by suicide. For some reason all the death has bought up

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No to Societal Conditioning

Societal conditioning tells me that I should be worried. (I’m not) That it’s not ok to have close relationships with the opposite sex. (It is) That you should only get your needs met by your partner. (Nope) I call bullshit. Humans originally were raised in tribes. Where we all lent on each other and had

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