Want to heal from your past? Learn the 5 myths of forgiveness
By Categories: Grief recovery, Healing, Personal growth

Forgiveness. It’s a loaded word and often a misunderstood one. Forgiveness is also an incredible gift. It’s one you give to yourself, not to the person who hurt you.  That’s one of the myths of forgiveness, the widely believed falsehoods that might be keeping you from doing this important work to free yourself from the…
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Depth-journaling, releasing the steam valve on repressed emotions
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It’s taken me a while to write publicly about my healing journey and the processes I’ve used to accomplish it.  Telling your story is hard when you’re still in the middle of it. You don’t know the ending, or how it’s going to go, and that puts you in a vulnerable place. It’s also tricky…
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The true pain of divorce: your lost hopes, dreams and expectations
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I remember the moment during my second divorce when I realized I was going to need to grieve the loss of my marriage and heal from the circumstances that caused me to divorce to begin with. I didn’t want to bring the pain into my next relationship. I wanted to be able to love fully…
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Book review: Where did you go – connecting to your loved ones who’ve died
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My mum and I had one of those strangely close but often dysfunctional relationships. She loved me intensely, but didn’t have good boundaries, didn’t protect me from predators and, throughout my adolescence, treated me too much like a friend and not enough like a child. Despite all that, I feel emotionally complete about my relationship…
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Simple ways to incorporate meditation into your daily life
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Meditation comes in many forms and varieties. But all its many paths lead to the same place – inner knowing, access to our wisdom and the ability to focus (and re-focus) our minds. Plus meditation has a host of physical and psychological benefits, including reduced anxiety and blood pressure, improved mood, memory and immune response,…