by Britta Eskey | Jun 29, 2021 | compassion, Growth, happiness, personal growth
There’s so much pain and suffering in the world that demands our compassion. Yet it’s easy to be resistant to feeling compassion, because we’re afraid it might overwhelm us. But there’s a distinction between compassion and empathetic distress that’s important to...
by Britta Eskey | May 12, 2021 | compassion, intentions, personal growth, Personal Transformation Stories
Something a lot of people forget is that self-compassion is a good thing. It makes us happier, healthier, and more effective human beings. But we don’t often practice self-compassion because we don’t think we deserve it, or because we think there’s someone else...
by Shandra LaMotte | Feb 8, 2021 | Growth, happiness, Meditation, personal growth
From a global pandemic to racial and social turmoil, financial problems to divisions between family members and members of the country, the last year has been very difficult at all levels: socially, spiritually, mentally, and even physically. It can be tempting to try...
by Lee Eskey | Feb 8, 2021 | Growth, new year, personal growth
It’s a universal condition that we make New Year’s resolutions that inevitably lead to failure. When they do, we find ourselves sometimes swinging back even further in the opposite direction. It’s a painful and disappointing experience, which is only made worse...
by Natalie Vartanian | Nov 22, 2020 | confidence, Creativity, letting in the good, Love, personal growth, Personal Transformation Stories
And the Three Counter-Intuitive Tools to Rebalance It Perfectionism is something that plagues many of us. In a lot of ways, it comes from a good place of wanting to do well, to hold up high ethics and values, and an overall desire to do good in the world. However,...
by Shandra LaMotte | Oct 15, 2020 | Emotions, personal growth, Relationships
All human beings have many different aspects of shadow in themselves. As we go from baby to child to teen to adult, we hit bumps along the way. The way we cope with tough moments, or the times we aren’t deeply recognized, is to build unconscious defenses— our survival...