We just heard two inspiring, heart wrenching, gut churning, funny, amazing life stories, from two Ugandan women, Joan and Teddy, who lifted themselves out of dire poverty and suffering by making and selling paper beads. The poverty is huge. For example, Millie lives on $1 a day earned from crushing rocks in a quarry, and [...]
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Why Spontaneous Kindness Feels So Sexy
The Dalai Lama says kindness is his religion. Wikipedia says that a random act of kindness is: “…a selfless act performed by a person or persons wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual… There will generally be no reason other than to make people smile or be happier.” Being sexy means something is [...]
Get in the Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, has been working with a concept he calls “flow.” The process of flow occurs when your consciousness matches your goals, allowing psychic energy to flow smoothly. For 40 years, Csikszentmihalyi has been studying what makes people happy, and [...]
Celebrating the sweetness of life instead of the bitterness of loss
Last year, I knew it was going to be my last Christmas holiday with my mom. I just knew it and as such, I made a point to be there with her. She was still in ok spirits at this point. She wasn’t able to breathe well or swallow or speak at all, but she [...]
3 Steps to Shift Out of Love Addiction
One of the most powerful techniques available to changing yourself from the inside out is the use of visualization. In my book The Law of Sobriety, I talk about how visualization can be used to treat all types of addictions, including love addictions. Love addictions are usually the result of feelings of inadequacy and low [...]
Chelsea Roff: How I Went From 58 Pounds & Nearly Dead to Healthy, Happy, & Loving Life
Fifteen-year-olds aren’t supposed to have strokes. At least that’s what I thought….
Understanding What The Universe Has To Offer
If we start appreciating the world around us, we will find that those things that we appreciate multiply and abound. This isn’t magic or coincidence; it is how life works.
3 Tips to Get Over a Bad Break-Up
Being in a relationship is a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, not all wonderful experiences are meant to last. In fact, more often than not when a relationship ends it is typically over faster for one person than the other. The worst relationship breakups occur when one person just wants out and the other person desperately wants [...]
Breathing, Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery
Sometimes when people are walking their pathway toward recovery from an addiction they tend to look only towards the big picture. This means that they miss out on the small details that can help in the day to day issues that everyone faces when making life changes. One of the most overlooked aspects of personal [...]
3 Questions to Clarify Your Relationship with Food
photo: SteFou! When people think of the damage that an eating disorder causes, they usually focus in on health concerns as a result of dramatic changes in body weight. Depending on the type of eating disorder, a gradual and continual increase in weight may be a key symptom or people may become unhealthy after rapid [...]
