Be warmed and filled
We are called to love like the Creator loved which is to say that we should be faithful, present, and sacrificial. Our goal should be to give of our time, our emotions (in the form of empathy), our resources, and more.
3 Steps to Rewire Your Brain from Negativity Bias to Being a Positive Thinker
Do you find yourself spinning out whenever you have a difficult conversation or get bad news?
Maybe you tend to feel high levels of anxiety or you go right to the negative and fixate on that instead of keeping all the positive in mind.
In Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson writes …
How I found what makes me happy
What makes you happy?
For me it's when I'm doing what I love and feeling free. I've always been the type of person that needed freedom in order to create and do what I know I'm meant to do which is to write and help others on their journey through life.
What I learned from Pixar's 'Soul'
After my kids and I watched it, we talked about what we got from the movie. Even my youngest picked up on the lesson and said “that life is meant to be really lived.” It is all too easy to get caught up in focusing on the wrong things.
Living in Alignment Exercise
We all have life values- those characteristics in life that are important to us and cause us to feel fulfilled, in-tune, and happy. When these values are missing, we often feel dissatisfied and restless. However we don’t usually take the time to really identify these values and measure how our lives are currently lining up with them. But not doing this means that we are living life in an aimless way.
Finding My Way
Though I’ve still been actively posting on social media, I’ve been quiet on the blog lately. At some point during the fall, I lost my way. I didn’t know what to write about. Some call that writer’s block but it felt like something different and I just couldn’t put my finger on it.