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Tag Archives: inner work
What Next?
My dog Sawyer’s death has turned my life upside down. In the nearly four months since I lost him, I’ve questioned tons of things I thought were settled, realized how much pain I still have to heal (both pain related … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged boundaries, dog, emotions, Fear, healing, inner work, pain, rage, Sawyer, What Next?
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Adding the Positive
Last year, I wrote a post about removing the negative. I still find that to be the most effective thing for relieving stress, overcoming obstacles, and enjoying life. Lately, however, I’ve realized that adding the positive is also extremely important. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Adding the Positive, dog, emotional healing, emotional pain, fun, healing, inner work, negative, pain, positive, Removing the Negative, Sawyer
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Oh, That Explains It
I had a recent realization about positive and negative emotions. Long before I started doing any real emotional work, I could still feel happiness, excitement, joy, and peace. I often felt all of those emotions when I went out swing … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged Brad Blanton, emotions, inner work, negativity, Oh That Explains It, positivity, Radical Honesty, resistance
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Review of Homecoming
Homecoming is an incredibly profound book by John Bradshaw. It was a great introduction for me to inner child work. I’m still no expert on it but now that I’ve finished working through Homecoming, I see how powerful and healing … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged boundaries, communication, emotional healing, emotions, freedom, healing, Homecoming, inner child work, inner freedom, inner peace, inner work, John Bradshaw, Letting Go, pain, peace, personal freedom, Review of Homecoming, transcendence, transformation
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Why My Approach Works for Me
Whenever I work on myself, I don’t reframe things in my mind in an attempt to heal from them. That doesn’t work for me. No matter how much I’ve told myself that the situation isn’t that bad, that I will … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hawkins, emotions, energy, healing, inner work, Letting Go, Presence, reframing, Surrender, thoughts, Why My Approach Works for Me
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Opposites
Something I’ve learned from Taoism is that seemingly opposing concepts or forces are actually two halves of the whole. Without day, there’d be no night. Without the back side of a coin, there’d be no front side. As I progress … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged inner work, leisure, leisurely productive, opposites, rest, Taoism
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Gentle Lessons
Every so often, I get opportunities to dig deep and work on things within myself without too much pain. I call these opportunities “gentle lessons”. Here are a few relatively recent examples. The first example concerns my dog, Sawyer. He … Continue reading
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Tagged dog, dogs, emotions, Gentle Lessons, growth, healing, inner work, lessons, pain, personal growth, Sawyer
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A Wave of Nostalgia
Sometime within the past few weeks, I listened to a cover of “Green Tambourine” from Recess: School’s Out. It immediately took me back to when I first watched that movie in elementary school. I think I saw it during summer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged A Wave of Nostalgia, friends, friendship, Green Tambourine, inner work, memories, nostalgia, pain, personal growth, school, youth
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My 2020 Gratitude List
For many months, I considered 2020 to be the worst year of my life. So much that I had found, developed, and come to love was taken away from me extremely quickly and with little to no time for me … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged 2020, communication, emotional healing, friends, friendship, gratitude, healing, inner work, Letting Go, My 2020 Gratitude List, perspective
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