Would you talk to your best friend the way you talk to yourself? Most people would NEVER do that. And yet, we tell ourselves self-critical thoughts all day long. Most of us (especially my fellow Type A perfectionists) think that if we’re too nice to ourselves, we...
Week in the Life is a scrapbooking project created by Ali Edwards. The purpose of the project is to document what a typical week looks like for you at this moment in time…which means you’ll likely take photos of ordinary things you wouldn’t normally...
Emily P. Freeman likes to share the “things that are saving her life right now” every season on her podcast, The Next Right Thing. She got this idea from Barbara Brown Taylor, and while the name of the list sounds a bit dramatic, it includes all kinds of things (both...
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...
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...
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...
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