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Do you really love yourself?

What does ingratitude towards yourself look like? I think it looks like this… You focus on your aesthetic to feel better about your internal conversation. You live loud with everything you do and possess because you’re concerned about how others perceive you. You beat yourself up in private, but present yourself as confident and bold […]

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Break the stigma

I think it was Dr Wayne Dyer who said that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. This is true both positively and negatively. Do you know someone who has a problem for every solution? Who sees doom and gloom at the happiest of moments? Who is […]

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Procrastination is not a mental illness

For the sake of your sanity, do not buy into this extremely flawed way of thinking. If you were to believe the mainstream tripe about mental health, you’d be running back to your childhood for everything and blaming your parents for all your failures in life. The irony of this claim about procrastination and laziness […]

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Reclaiming Peace: A Rabbit Hole of Reflection

Reclaiming yourself in a vacuum of support is probably the most challenging part of mindfulness. I say mindfulness because it demands a focus on what is, rather than what should be, or could be, or must be. That, I have found, to be the most deflating distraction of all. The thoughts and the lamentations of […]

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Find your peace

Gratitude lays the foundation of the home.Respect builds its walls.Love and compassion provides the roof that protects you from the storm.And passion gives you the windows to allow your soul to breathe.As for faith…faith is the door that opens the path to all of it. Virtues have limited effect or value if practiced in isolation. […]

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Save your sanity

Here are a few highlights from my long overdue pilot episode of my podcast titled Tough Discussions. If you don’t question what you take from the mainstream mental health mill, you could lose your sanity thinking that you’re trying to find it. If the mainstream approach to mental health was so effective, why is it […]

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Mental health myth – Social contracts

People will have no reason to remind you about what they’ve done for you if they felt appreciated by you. This popular meme encourages a selfish view of life and convinces us that we’re victims of manipulation rather than giving us reason to question if/how we may have wronged someone, or taken them for granted. […]

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The Illusion of Control: Unraveling the Quest for Peace

Peace is not the absence of drama, nor is it the avoidance of life. Yet, I find myself bemused by so many who believe that avoidance is a sustainable way to find peace, or happiness. It isn’t. Avoidance is merely a delay of the inevitable. Inevitability has always been such a complicated subject. Otherwise seen […]

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Struggles and Triumphs: A Personal Journey to Finding Joy and Fulfillment

Life. With each passing moment, I question more than before about ever experiencing true joy. A fulfilling joy. One that is shared, not just fleeting. Joy that isn’t prompted nor courted, but spontaneously spawned in moments that I choose. Not the joy that I choose. The moments that I choose because those moments matter. Such […]

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Beware the ego of prayer

Worship, if contemplated against that which we subscribe to, is bound to feed our ego. Worship is not worship because of its rituals. Nor is worship submission if performed as a transaction. That transaction could be an expectation of reward or blessing from the divine, or an alleviation of the struggles of one’s material state. […]

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