Category: My Story-How It All Began (#52 Posts)
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Post #32: Evolving Without Your Spouse to Become a Better Partner
We’ve all heard the saying that you have to teach someone how to love you. I didn’t know that that’s what I was doing I just know that I had concluded that the only way to get what I wanted was to give it.
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Post #31: New Ideas Don’t Change Old Lessons They Just Learn to Co-Exist
Self-improvement is just like watching a movie: It’s so much easier to start from the beginning because everything after that is determined by that beginning. If you start somewhere in the middle, there are so many unanswered questions and then you find yourself more confused than enlightened.
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Post #30: Creating Space for Myself
So, when at school… I thrived. I felt solid, concrete, and human. When I was at home, all my feelings, memories, pain just swirled around me like incessant dust devils. I felt uneasy, panicked, and stressed. The chaos was internal. Somehow, I was able to leave it there when I was at school. This allowed…
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Post #28: Acceptance of the Truth
Throughout the years… I thought about telling my husband a few hurtful words myself. Words to hurt him like he had hurt me, but I couldn’t do it. That just wasn’t who I was. Obviously, I understood how words can stick to you, insert themselves under your skin, and become a part of your every…
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Post #27: Distractions
I believe that we inherently… live moment by moment. Then as soon as we have the capacity to reason and rationalize, we learn to be where our heads are. Each moment is sewn together with the next in a seamless pattern and moments become hours and days. Days become months and then years. This collection…
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Post #26: Learning to See What is Right in Front of Me
I was taught to stay… through the good times and despite the worst of times, furthermore, that it was my lot to endure…as a wife. A friend once asked me why don’t you leave? My response at the time was that I wasn’t in harm’s way, my kids were safe. Everything was good. Privately, I…
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Post #24: Finding the Courage to Be Myself
Those are funny words to say… don’t you think? Being myself should be the easiest thing to do. Deepak Chopra says that when we are children, things are interpreted for us. Things that will tell our futures. Like if we are not good looking or not going to be successful in life. He goes on…
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Post #23: Inner Beauty
Inner beauty… What is inner beauty? Is it kindness? Compassion? Generosity? And why is it when we refer to inner beauty, it seems to be of less value than outer beauty? Is inner beauty outer ugly? We say, “she is beautiful…on the inside,” implying that she is not very attractive. We must point out if…