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Reading Time: 4 minutes In my experience, it always pays to be honest about our own feelings and emotions. As human beings we are a powerful creators and our feelings are a miracle. Learning to acknowledge them, embrace them, trust them and communicate them well, and remembering to do it all with kindness is a worthy goal. Telling the naked truth in a way that is kind is a powerful skill worth mastering.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Guilt only serves one purpose, and no, it isn’t to hound you and make you feel like crap until you finally give in and do what you think you should do.
Truly the one useful purpose that we can find in those feelings of guilt is that they can show us our own personal value system. And once we see what it is that we truly value we can usually find a way to honor that value without compromising our boundaries, our self-esteem, our decisions, and our freedom.
The first step to ending the feeling of guilt, or maybe I should say transforming the feeling of guilt is to ask yourself WHY you’re feeling guilty. What value is attached to your ideas about the situation?
Reading Time: 7 minutes There are a few small changes in our language that have the potential to make a huge shift in how we show up in the world, to others and to ourselves. Here are five very powerful little language tweaks you can begin practicing today.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Don’t believe that little inner gremlin voice if it tells you that this is a process that takes a long time or that you’ll never be able to forgive yourself. You can forgive yourself instantly. Decide that you’re going to be different after you do this. Decide that you are going to forgive yourself now, today. It’s a choice, and it’s a choice based in love. Choose love for yourself today.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes As for this declaration that April is “National Sexual Assault Awareness Month” – there is probably no one in the world who has made us more aware of sexual assault than our current president who openly bragged about it and somehow still got elected. And just like the individual victim of gaslighting who becomes aware, now we need to follow up our awareness with the action that will get us free. Stand up, speak out, and vote.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s not the negative emotions we need to be concerned about, but our inability to listen to them and to process them in a healthy way.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes © 2018 – Cindie Chavez Boundaries and the reasons we set them are a conversation I have fairly often. This
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Cindie Chavez ©2018 Happiness. At the bottom of every wish and desire generally sits the ultimate goal of happiness (or
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