Empowerment – Page 15 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

Fifty: payback time

All those fun parties, sleepless nights, stress and some gold old drugs in your youth come at a price once you turn fifty. But, it’s inevitable. When you are young you think you are immune to everything, as it should be. Living a super conscious and cautious life in your youth is no way to live. Some […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Voting against yourself

I’m in shock, as many are with the “Trump disease.” How can this person have happened? How have people who believe in democracy, gone and voted for such an undemocratic figure which represents the ugly face of any dictatorship and tyranny? Our country is mourning. San Francisco is mourning and trying to wake up from this […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

When good people happen to us

I’d like to say that my life started to crumble a year and a half ago, but although it might seem that way, it was crumbling way before that. I was already crumbling inside, the outside had then to crumble for me to rebuild. And while all the chaos and destruction was happening, good people happened […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Regrouping to regain sanity

Taking the time to regroup is vital, especially when life pulls you down on your knees and the tide is so high you have trouble keeping your head above water. The only way I’ve been able to cope with all the storms coming at me and keep it together the last few months has been […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

It’s youth’s time. Let’s lead by example.

It’s not our time anymore. It’s youth’s time. We have failed them miserably and even more when we don’t, as adults, send them a message of hope, letting them know that there may be a brighter future and that they are the change. We cannot cry, complain and only allow them to see the dark […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The fight to be right is wrong

We all think we are right when we have a conversation and happen to disagree, which often leads to anger and hurt feelings. And that’s the key: feelings are not expressed and neither the reasons why we feel hurt. That’s where we make the mistake, we don’t question what’s behind this person’s stance on a […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Those gloom and doom days

All my life I’ve suffered from “Gloom and doom days.” They come, run me over like a speeding truck and then, the next day, for no reason at all, the cloud lifts and I feel OK again. I can face another day, unlike the day before when my mind is so fogged by negative thoughts […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Floating between lives

Sometimes we float between lives. The one we had and the one that is to come. And while we try to figure out the future we miss the moment and know that we’ll look back and regret not having enjoyed this floating time. I’m floating, unattached to anything, which should be a pleasurable experience but […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Having a bad day doesn’t mean you have a bad life, but…

Having a bad day doesn’t mean you have a bad life, but those moments surely make it feel that way. How does one get over that feeling when everything suddenly feels wrong, hard and off? I had one of those days recently where the cloud hovered and then went onto enveloping me in a dense […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Think white light

“Think white light” was what my friend Tom used to tell me when I was stressed or down. What he meant was to sit, breathe and simply focus on the white light taking over, covering me and cleansing my thoughts. It worked and still works but I have to remember the white light. It’s there […]