Love Letter to the Tired and Lonely.
Learning to love the 'good girl' who desperately wanted someone to validate her existence has opened me up to a different way of living.
Browsing Tag:
self-doubt
Three Ways to Heal Your Self-Doubt.
Choosing to move from self-doubt to self-celebration is a lifelong journey. It takes dedication and consistency to override the patriarchal conditioning.
Use Your Self-Doubt as a Catalyst to Discover Yourself as Presence.
The imbalance is that you think you are your inherited identities, and you’re disconnected from the truth of your being, which is presence.
Why I Didn’t Report: Become Your Story’s Steward Rather Than Its Hostage.
Survivors witness and feel beneath the story... Fragmented, often locked away in an unconscious vault; we banish pain in order to survive it.
For All the Girls in Red. {poetry}
The girl in red will... rise again and again,
Rapunzel weaving your hatred into gold.
No matter how many times you twist her
Wrists or her words...
Living Through Fear Versus Fearless Living.
I’ve also realized that allowing myself to be vulnerable has made me stronger and more resilient to setbacks. So as fear grows, I grow too.
Sleeping with the Enemy: a Conversation with Self-Doubt.
I exist within you, and yet without you I cannot exist. I travel to you through many channels, yet your mind is the vessel I need to survive.
Self-betrayal to Self-loyalty: A Foothold to Freedom.
The true antidote to self-betrayal is self-loyalty, which can then be reflected on the outside.
Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.
4 am and Other Reluctant Friendships.
Instead of willing sleep to return, I've stopped fighting the shifting light. There's something oddly soothing about its reassuring progress. It is symbolic of impermanence. Nothing can remain the same, everything must change. It is these early morning meetings of truth that have led me to ...