Tag: Inner Peace

For today’s post, I was planning to write about the first step you take during a reiki session: Setting your intentions. But yesterday’s post about “the Force” in the Star Wars universe got me thinking about the wording of my own mantras, so I’m finding myself reworking parts of the...

If we’re discussing the topic of bullying, there’s another very important factor that we need to acknowledge, and that’s our capacity for violence. It’s a trait that we don’t like to admit that we have, especially to ourselves. That’s why I think it’s so important to take a deeper look...

Tomorrow being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect opportunity to take a look at the topic of parenting. We all have our own ideas about what is good parenting and bad parenting. As a parent myself, I really struggled to meet my own standards of good parenting, and I made...

You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle.  When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice.  So, when...

Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone and thought to yourself, “I could throw those words right back in your face!”? Or maybe, when you were a child, did an adult scold you for something that they were just as guilty of doing? And now, be honest....

After years of self-analysis, I’ve come to the conclusion that a feeling of strong repulsion within me is a giant red flag. I know that someone or something is reflecting back to me a trait that I do not like about myself. And the explosive rage isn’t really aimed...

Several years ago, touched off by the song, Have It All by Jason Mraz, I started doing a series of instagram posts called A Month of Mays. In the beginning, I strictly followed the lyrics of the song. The year after that, they were mostly positive affirmations that I...

Hello! I know it’s been a while since my last post. There were a lot of things going on personally, and there were a lot of emotions to process in regards to the Russian – Ukrainian war. I just didn’t know where to start!  One very interesting thing came...

Meditation. It’s a word that has become quite mainstream in the last decade or so. Even my kids do breathing exercises in gym class now. But in a world where multi-tasking is a virtue and entertainment fits inside your pocket, meditation takes some time getting used to. I know...

It’s been a while since I wrote a new post. Simply put, I was experiencing a writer’s block. I started to write several times, but the words just didn’t feel right.  I could only write a few sentences at a time, and when I did, it felt like something...