A Letter to My 18 Year old Self

A Letter to My 18 Year old Self

Recently I was listening to Elevation podcast (which is AMAZING, by the way!) and Pastor Steven Furtick was talking about what his wife does when she notices that he’s taking things for granted. She likes to ask him “what would 18 year old Steven think if he could see...
Why Affirmations Don’t Work (and What to Try Instead)

Why Affirmations Don’t Work (and What to Try Instead)

You’re probably familiar with positive affirmations – short phrases like “I love myself”, “my body is beautiful”, or “I radiate confidence”. Many people like repeating these phrases to themselves – in an effort to replace negative self-talk with kinder thoughts – but...
Talk to Your Brain More Than You Listen to It

Talk to Your Brain More Than You Listen to It

Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to complain less or to stop worrying so much? Most of us realize that we have unhelpful thought patterns, but we’re never taught HOW to change them. The average person has somewhere between 30,000-60,000 thoughts per day.  The...
A More Realistic Lovingkindness Meditation

A More Realistic Lovingkindness Meditation

“The tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor; you could tear civilization down and rebuild it from scratch, and the same dualities would rise again. Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to...