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Are You Afraid to Be Yourself?

April 28, 2013

I once had a habit of writing my soul out in journals only to go back and shred the pages. It wasn’t because I wrote about things I didn’t want to remember. It was because I hated myself. I hated reading what I had written because I’d look back and be filled with shame. Shame [...]

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A Different Type of Spring Cleaning: My Letter To Those of Little Hope

March 23, 2013

Right now, at this very moment, there is a person who is wondering whether or not life is worth it. Right now, there is a girl who believes that starving herself will make her beautiful. Right now, there is a man who puts on a brave face because he doesn’t want the world to see [...]

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Fear Discontinued: Relinquishing Fear and Stepping Into Your Power (Part of the Missing Link Series)

February 18, 2013

Today you have two choices.  You can act from a place of fear or you can act from a place of love.  I used to have a visceral reaction in my gut when I heard people talk about love like this.  It made no sense to me and it rubbed the academic in me the [...]

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Don’t Steal My Sunshine

January 16, 2013

Do you all remember this song? I love it  And today that’s just how I felt, Don’t steal my sunshine.  We have been some cold weather here in Denver lately.  Over the weekend, I don’t even think it got above 20 degrees Fahrenheit.  Today though–in the high 40s, low 50s!! You know what that means! Please notice [...]

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Talk Less, Do More & A Giveaway!

January 11, 2013

For some reason, I’ve really been craving green tea lately.  Back in college, one of the delis on campus sold Green Bubble Tea, and it was my favorite drink my freshman year…they were almost always out of it every time I wanted one for the rest of my college career. On Wednesday, I was out [...]

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What We Learn From Tragedies But Should Never Have To

December 18, 2012

I’m sure that by now all of you have heard about the horrific school shooting in Connecticut that left 27 dead, and most of them were 6 or 7 year old children. I don’t think the word “tragedy” begins to encompass a situation like this, or the shooting in the Aurora theater this summer, or [...]

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Believing Your Truth

November 19, 2012

For years I was told that I was too sensitive. “Grow thicker skin!”  “That shouldn’t upset you!”  “Blow it off!”  But I couldn’t.  No matter how hard I tried to be less sensitive, to have fewer feelings, to be more hard-headed, I couldn’t do it.  It wasn’t me. Then I was told that I remembered [...]

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The Missing Link Series: Lessons in Acceptance

October 10, 2012

Monday morning I woke up in A LOT more pain than I had anticipated, which meant that it was definitely necessary to postpone my trip to London.  Thankfully, I was able to push it back exactly a week, allowing me enough time to heal and to meet with my surgeon for a post-op checkup.  I’m [...]

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The Missing Link Series

October 5, 2012

Happy 22nd Birthday to my younger sister! This post is actually published two days after her birthday, which we celebrated with her friends at a Belgian beer café last weekend and celebrated with family tonight.  My sister is a very rare type of person.  Besides being so gorgeous that she literally gets complimented everywhere we [...]

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Operation Self-Compassion and Dealing with Devastating Heartbreak

August 8, 2012
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Holy hell it has been a week and it’s only Wednesday.  Maybe I can reframe that and say, “It’s Wednesday! I made it to Wednesday!” because quite frankly Monday was low times for me, very low.  Actually the whole weekend was tough and I was pulling every self-care trick out of the bag that I [...]

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