The antidote to shame: self-acceptance
I’ve been struggling with shame for a long time now. I didn’t always know it as shame but I always felt a sense that I needed to hide myself from the world. This feeling lives…
Category: Self-awareness
What does it mean to validate an emotion?
When we feel uncomfortable emotions, our first instinct is usually to push them away. We don’t want to feel these uncomfortable emotions. But when we avoid feeling our emotions, we keep them stuck because, as…
Working with Suppressed Emotions
When we suppress our emotions, we don’t just push down our negative emotions but also our positive ones. Suppressing our emotions limits our ability to express ourselves fully in life, robbing us of joy, love…
Breathing to Tears
I was practicing the Wim Hof method again today after experimenting with Sudarshan Kriya yoga earlier in the week. Sudarshan Kriya yoga is a method of patterned breathing that also incorporates a type of forceful…
Movement to Heal
Can dancing release stored emotions in the hips? I wanna find out.
Are You Numbing Your Feelings?
What happens when you numb your emotions? Blocked emotions can change the way you function in your life. They can cut you off from being authentic and cause you to act and think in ways…
Are you hiding behind your striving?
Are our attempts at self-improvement really ways to mask our own feelings of inadequacy? This question been on my mind since seeing this video on disliking yourself. Now it’s not apparent to me that I…
Affirmations If You Don’t Like Yourself Very Much Sometimes
People who experience strong anxiety may, in some situations, think that the immediate situation is the cause of their anxiety but it could be that you don’t really like yourself that much. When I saw…
Microdosing: Day 27
“If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right” That’s my sentiment today: that life should be fun and if you’re not having fun then you’re probably doing it wrong. But life isn’t always…
Microdosing: Day 26
Day 26. This blog is turning more into a daily journal than an exploration of microdosing but it’s so hard to tell if the mushrooms are having an effect. Sometimes I think I’m a unique…