Emotional Wellness
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10 Things You Can Let Go of to Make More Room for Peace
What Are You Still Carrying? Many of us carry emotional burdens that weigh us down. A parent’s illness, a child’s wayward actions, being overloaded with work responsibilities, and the general burdens of everyday life can slowly diminish the peace we feel. These burdens often accumulate gradually, so we may not recognize how heavy they are…
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How to Stop Rushing Through Life and Start Enjoying the Present
When Did Everything Become a Race? We often describe modern life as a rat race. We rush to work, rush through work, rush home, rush through our responsibilities, and wake up the next morning to do it all again. At some point, we have to ask ourselves: What exactly are we racing toward? Life can…
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How to Enjoy Your Life Now Instead of Waiting for Someday
The Someday Trap Many times, we convince ourselves that life will begin when something else happens. We say to ourselves: I’ll travel when I retire; I’ll wear that when I lose weight; I’ll buy the house when I get married; I’ll get that when I earn more money. These goals are meaningful but making our…
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7 Things to Stop Doing If You Want a More Peaceful Life
Sometimes Peace Comes from Subtraction Self-improvement usually focuses on what we need to start doing, but sometimes it starts with what we need to take away. We may need to re-evaluate routines, habits, goals, and practices. What may have been a good goal or habit at one stage of your life may need to be…
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8 Signs You Are Becoming More Content With Your Life
Contentment Can Be Quiet We often think contentment arrives with a big red, shiny bow that suddenly makes us feel completely happy and satisfied with everything. But contentment usually doesn’t happen that way. Contentment often develops gradually. It comes from recognizing that everything you have is a gift to be grateful for. It comes from…
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The 30-Day Contentment Reset: A Gentle Journey Back to Peace
Why I Created the 30-Day Contentment Reset For a very long time, I believed that peace was something I would experience “someday”. Someday, when life slowed down. Someday, when work becomes less demanding. Someday, when everything on my to-do list was finally finished. But someday always seemed to escape me. Someday just never seemed to…
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10 Daily Choices That Create a More Content Life
Contentment is Built One Choice at a Time Many people spend their lives searching for contentment. They believe they will finally be at peace when some great achievement happens in their life. They think when they buy the house, get the promotion, lose weight, retire, or finally have everything they have ever wanted, they will…
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How to Create a Life That Feels Peaceful, Not Just Productive
A Busy Life Is Not Always a Beautiful Life For many years, I believed success meant staying busy. If my schedule was full, I felt productive. I would often have an overpacked schedule full of responsibilities that one person could not possibly complete. This often led to some tasks left undone. My life was not…
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Is It Time for a Reset? 9 Signs You Need to Slow Down
Sometimes We Don’t Need More; We Need a Reset Have you ever come to a point in your life when you realize you can’t go on living the way that you do? Not because something dramatic happened, but because you were emotionally and physically exhausted. Are you tired of rushing? Are you tired of carrying…
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30 Journal Prompts for When You Feel Overwhelmed
When Your Mind Feels Too Full Sometimes life feels overwhelming, and our thoughts begin to become entangled in a web of emotions. We replay conversations, ruminate over decisions we made, worry about the future, and carry responsibilities that leave us feeling mentally exhausted. What we need most is a safe place to release what we…