Note to Self: Take Your Time

In case you need to hear it today, it’s absolutely ok to follow your own heart, live according to your own timeline, and in your own unique way.

Nobody else can do that for you. Only YOU can.

That’s a fact I keep learning to accept, whenever I think about all the books I still want to write. Or anytime I’m out for my walk and my body tells me to go slower.

I’m so driven by the end result, that sometimes, I feel like I need to be running at hyper speed to get stuff done. When in reality that only adds to my angst. My almost 17 year old’s favorite thing to calm me down is saying: Chill ma. chill.

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How Coffee Can Make You Anxious

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ~ T.S. Eliot

I know I know, I LOVE coffee too!

How can something that is so warm and fuzzy, make me anxious?

Don’t be mad at me for stating something that we all need to know and understand.

Its actually not just the coffee, its the caffeine in the coffee that can trigger anxiety in some.

Now over the years, I have developed a very loving relationship with my coffee. Its my #1 go to in all times of emotional imbalance. I have had coffee when I was upset, or stressed, or thinking or working, or even simply chilling with my favorite people. Coffee is the comforting aura that is connected with happy memories for me.

There’s nothing more comforting than a warm beverage in your favorite mug, how could that be possibly related to anxiety? For some people, there is clear evidence that points to a connection between caffeine and anxiety.

Read on to learn if this could be true for you.

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12 Healing Ways to Emotional Growth

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” ~ Abraham Maslow

When I began my own journey of emotional growth and healing, I didn’t know it would be so hard. I thought I’ll read a few books, do a few courses, and get therapy and that is all I need.

What I didn’t factor in, was how many emotions I was burying within, and needed to work through. It then led me to understand that this emotional growth and healing is indeed a lifelong process.

Emotional growth is hard work.

Emotional growth is like an uphill climb.

It’s a thing we keep doing, as long as we are alive. And yes, it can be painful and challenging work.

But, it can also be incredibly satisfying and life-altering.

If you fall in love with the process of Emotional growth and approach yourself with curiosity instead of judgment, openness instead of shame, and hope instead of fear, you’ll heal.

And once you begin to get to know yourself better and start living authentically, there’s no going back.

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