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Today I decided to layout on my balcony after I meditated. I wanted to watch the clouds, and as I looked up, I noticed a rainbow. I can't tell you the last time I saw a rainbow, but at that moment I started smiling. It hit me that rainbows typically appear after it rains or storms. Suddenly it was placed in my heart that there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Psalm 30:5 states that weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Many of us go through life challenges and forget that...

We can be so hard on ourselves. We push ourselves to the limit, and when things don't work out in our favor, we begin negative self-talk. We never express how appreciative we are of the things we have accomplished in our lives. We focus on the things we lack and treat ourselves unkindly.   When was the last time you looked in the mirror and told yourself, "I love you?" When was the last time you told yourself, "I am proud of you?" You push yourself until you experience burnout and want to escape the life you have created. A...

I would always confuse compassion with self-sacrifice. The Merrian-Webster definition of the word compassion is sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it. The definition of the word self-sacrifice is a sacrifice of oneself or one's interest for others for or a cause or ideal.  In the past, I would constantly think of other people's feelings ahead of my own, thinking it was the compassionate thing to do. If someone wronged me and I knew they had a complicated past, I would be the bigger person and let them back into my life, acting as if nothing...

What is the Gut Instinct? Your gut instinct is the physical reaction you have to the world around and inside of you. When you experience an overwhelming “gut feeling,” your body is carrying out a primal response to subconscious information. The ultimate purpose of your gut instinct is to protect you. As your gut instinct is the most ancient and primal “sixth sense” you have, it is the one you can rely upon the most. One example of your gut instinct in action would be deciding to spontaneously avoid walking down a road at night because something “feels off.” That...

Many of us go through life, allowing people to mistreat us because we don't see that we deserve better. We surround ourselves with other unhealed individuals who project onto us daily. We go above and beyond to make everyone happy and slowly become people pleasers. Eventually, you lose your voice and become codependent. You hold onto relationships tightly without realizing that they are sucking the life out of you. You pretend that you know better, but the reality is that you are losing yourself. Once upon a time, I would have been happy to accept the bare minimum from a...