empowerment – Page 2 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

Why We All Grow With Storytellers: A Message of Empowerment.

Disclosure: I am traveling to We All Grow Summit on an all expenses paid trip sponsored by Dove Dry Spray Antiperspirant, as a storyteller bestie.All opinions are my own. I recently lost one of my best friends to cancer. He was an amazing storyteller who literally saved my life a long time ago, by telling […]

by Laura Carbonell

On being grateful for the weirdest things.

Maybe not at the time did I feel grateful, especially while it was happening, but now in retrospect I can see how I dodged plenty a bullet and I’m able to thank, who knows who, for all those experiences that one might tag as unfortunate. I, on the other hand, see how those things had […]

by Laura Carbonell

Nothing happens for a reason.

I used to have this naïve idea that everything happened for a reason. Yet, after much thought, many bumps on the road, the harsh, or maybe not so much, reality is that things just happen, good and bad, and there is no hidden reason.

by Laura Carbonell

Another year rushing to its end.

Wait, but it’s still November! You may gasp, but time goes faster as you add-on years. Life conspires to start gaining momentum when you wish it didn’t. When you are young you can’t wait to be old enough to drink, to go off on your own, to finish college, to start making a good living […]

by Laura Carbonell

Procrastination: Why you should stop!

As most people, my to do list resembles more and more a roll of toilet paper. The list of things to get done becomes endless and only gets worse the longer I postpone. The anguish and stress that accompany this habit should have taught me a lesson, but although I promise myself to do things […]

by Laura Carbonell

Coming out of the closet with #oneconversation on HIV and AIDS.

There are few subjects I cannot relate to if they have to do with shame, fear and coming out of the closet about who you are. AIDS and HIV are very delicate subjects nobody wants to own up to, but doing so is important to offer those who suffer the disease in silence some hope, […]

by Laura Carbonell

Life lessons from Leo Tolstoy: Three questions.

As often happens, we run into just what we need to read at some specific moment in our lives. At this point in mine, with much death surrounding me, this short story made me realize how important it is to stay in the now. Because life can be taken away from us without any warning. […]

by Laura Carbonell

Things to do before you die.

Perhaps we have a major list of important things we wish to do before we die, but perhaps there are some that should also be included which may not top the list but which are important.

by Laura Carbonell

When happy pills are the answer.

I never believed in “happy pills,” but was always curious as to whether they could actually make you feel eternally happy. My thoughts were, that since sadness and pain are part of life, we should endure it like everyone else. Yet, not everyone is the same and sometimes we need a little help when […]

by Laura Carbonell

Dreams and nightmares; tools to improve your life.

A lot has been written about nightmares and dreams, but I have my own humble opinion. I can only speak from my own experience and from what I’ve read that’s made most sense to me. ‘One of Freud’s more important discoveries is that emotions buried in the unconscious surface in disguised form during dreaming, and […]