Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
I used to avoid and block sadness using any technique possible. Drinking, taking pills, and any form of escapism. I was afraid of it. What I feared most was my anticipation of pain which I thought I couldn’t handle. There is a positive side of sadness. Sadness can be a time of reflection, evaluation, of stepping […]
Read More…“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs
Read More…It’s National Suicide Awareness Month and for this reason I get to talk about it. Not in-depth, just adding my grain of salt for those who contemplate suicide as a way out.
Read More…Some of us have abandonment issues and ” Will you still be here tomorrow?” is not a question we openly ask. We keep it to ourselves and it remains there, at the back of our minds unuttered. Unable to shake the terrifying feeling away.
Read More…Three years ago I felt empty and bored to death. Although I was passionately teaching, I lacked a personal fulfilling life. I had a very strict and fixed routine. I did my grocery shopping at 8 A.M. every Friday, cleaned, did the laundry, cooked and read. The rest of the week I stuck to a strict schedule.
Read More…There are moments in our lives we’d like to erase. But our brains are wired in such a way that we won’t forget no matter how much time elapses. Time will soften the blow of a memory, but it won’t do away with it. Those things that had the most emotional impact are stored, and […]
Read More…When I was little, my dad used to tell me how he was always going to be there for me, for the good and the bad. He stuck to his promise and never left me.
Read More…We all experience mood changes prompted by music. Music that might take us down memory lane, making us feel happy or sad. So, the music we tend to like, whether it brings up positive or not so happy emotions make up who we are. Music marks our lives and we choose those tunes.
Read More…We get so lost in all those things we have to do for others, that we forget the main character in the play: Us! When we overextend ourselves for other people, we lose sight of what we want, what we need and it slowly starts to weigh us down. While I am all for reaching out and […]
Read More…We live in a society were we label good feelings and bad feelings. Anger being in the “bad” list. We are not talking here about out of control or chronic anger. Just plain and simple anger we are all entitled to.
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