Anna Patrick's Blog, page 172

"When a more or less ordinary character, someone who is both kind and self-serving, somehow finds..."

“When a more or less ordinary character, someone who is both kind and self-serving, somehow finds that place within where he or she is still capable of courage and goodness, we get to see something true that we long for.”

- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Why do you hate Nirvana so much? For real doh??

Seriously they fucking suck so bad.

To the girl who wrote me an inbox message about how I find my confidence/how to be more “badass”...

It randomly just deleted off my phone! I am SO sorry about that. If you see this, please feel free to write again.

In short, though, I think “finding” confidence has to do with redefining what self confidence is. Confidence, for me, has nothing to do with the “when you look your best you feel your best” mantra, and it has everything to do with building yourself up from the inside.

Are you following your passion? Are you in a place in your life where you’re happy with who you are as a person, and are you also growing? Are you living your life in a way that allows you to cultivate yourself spiritually, emotionally, physically, while pursuing what you love and lifting up others around you? Because once the answer to those becomes a yes, a lot of the negativities, worries, doubts and insecurities tend to fade away and you’re left in your natural “confident” state, and that energy is intoxicating.

Since the question deleted I hope I got to the heart of it.

Anna

We’re all mad here.

We’re all mad here.

A genie pops up and grants you 3 wishes. What do you wish for?

I took a really long time to think about this and I’m still coming up short. I’m pretty content.

So I guess I’d wish for a positive uplift in the collective conscious energy. I’d wish for time to pause when you’re reading, so you could read as much as you want (which I think would also help achieve the aforementioned wish). And I wish corporate culture was more accepting of tattoos so I could get more visible ones.

Anna

"Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With..."

“Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.”

- Pema Chodron (via yogachocolatelove)

We’re all mad here.

We’re all mad here.

And The Winners Are...

If your name appears below, check your email inbox shortly for a message from me (or DM on Instagram for #3)! Please reply within 48 hours to claim your prize:

Prize #1: Gabrielle H.
Prize #2: Tim L.
Prize #3 (via Instagram): @zoesbooks

CONGRATS!

Thanks to all who entered, I was honestly humbled by the amount of entries! For those who didn’t win, no worries at all, I’ll do more of these. The intention is to pay forward all of the wonderful energy you all bring to this space, and to thank you for being a part of it.

Also to those who didn’t win, I’m happy to sign your copy of Meditations In Wonderland if you mail them to my PO Box with prepaid return postage (Anna Patrick, PO Box 27Herndon VA, 20172).

Thanks to all 25k of you beautiful souls,

Anna

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you..."

“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”

- Deepak Chopra (via yogachocolatelove)

Announcing The 25K Follower Giveaway Winners In An Hour!

Check back here to see if you won! I’ll be emailing (or for Instagram, DMing) the winners right after the announcement.

And if you don’t win, I’ll definitely be doing more of these in the future! You guys give so much to me, I’m happy to give back.

Anna