Unlearning & Healing from Dysfunctional Love

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let’s normalise Self Love. Let’s normalise healing. Not only are you worthy of the love you did not recieve as a child, but you are capable of so much more in terms of living your best life.

We all grew up not knowing what self love was. Honestly, we grew up not knowing what LOVE was to begin with. We accepted the fairy tale versions of love as definitions of real love. We accepted our dysfunctional setups as normal love. If that meant living in emotionally and physically abusive households, we thought that was normal. Not anyone’s fault, it was all we knew.

It was our normal.

Only as adults who suffer from pains and traumas, do we realize that past was not normal. It was a dysfunctional setup, that fractured our emotional growth.

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7 Things to Let Go Of As You Heal

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” ~ Carl Jung

My own journey of healing continues to this day. Learning new things everyday about myself is interesting to say the least. In no way has it been easy, but it has been incredibly satisfying to move forward with a joyous and light heart.

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Why ‘JUST THINK POSITIVE’ does not work and what to DO instead

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” ~ Aristotle

When we are going through a hard time, how often have you heard atleast someone in your life tell you, “Just think positive!”?

Like somehow, when we are in the thick of a stressful situation, when my whole world feels overwhelming, simply “just think positive” is going to magically solve everything! Seriously, who are these people and do they have some magic pill that can make them think positive in an instant?

I am here to put your mind at ease, that although I am a firm believer of the healing power of positive thinking, its impossible to simply be positive in an instant. I have dedicated my life’s work to the study of positive thinking but, I’m not unrealistic about how it is applied to actually work. If simply saying “think positive” worked, we would all be perfectly healed. But, that is NOT the case in the world today, is it!?

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