Tag Archives: pain

Stay Out of the Story

Posted on July 28, 2021 by admin

My mind is rarely content to sit with emotions. It loves to turn them into a story and run with it as a justification for those feelings. This prevents understanding of what actually happened and makes it much harder to … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement | Tagged emotions, Kurt Vonnegut, negativity, pain, positivity, Stay Out of the Story, stories | 1 Comment

Review of The Art of Racing in the Rain

Posted on July 7, 2021 by admin

Last week I finished reading The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It’s one of the best books that I’ve read this year and it gave me many conflicting emotions as I went through it. The book … Continue reading →

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The Missing Piece of the Puzzle

Posted on May 26, 2021 by admin

My main focus in life is helping people heal from emotional wounds. I don’t see much talk about this outside of a handful of discussions I have fairly regularly with a few people close to me. Fortunately it seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement | Tagged emotional healing, emotions, healing, inner peace, kids, pain, parents, peace, The Missing Piece of the Puzzle, trauma | Comments Off

Review of Homecoming

Posted on May 19, 2021 by admin

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 →

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Gentle Lessons

Posted on February 17, 2021 by admin

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 →

Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement | Tagged dog, dogs, emotions, Gentle Lessons, growth, healing, inner work, lessons, pain, personal growth, Sawyer | Comments Off

A Wave of Nostalgia

Posted on January 20, 2021 by admin

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 | Comments Off

Music and Emotional Healing

Posted on October 7, 2020 by admin

Lately, I’ve found music to be extremely helpful for bringing up emotions for me to work through. It can be difficult for me to get in touch with certain emotions or fully feel them when I’m overwhelmed. Emotionally moving songs … Continue reading →

Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement | Tagged emotional healing, emotions, feelings, happiness, healing, joy, love, music, Music and Emotional Healing, pain, peace, sadness, songs | Comments Off

How to Handle Emotions?

Posted on July 1, 2020 by admin

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about different approaches to emotions. One approach says that you should feel whatever emotions come up, allow them to be, and avoid trying to suppress them, repress them, or force them to be anything … Continue reading →

Posted in Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement | Tagged attachment, Bob Ross, Buddhism, emotions, expectations, How to Handle Emotions?, pain, suffering, thoughts | Comments Off

The Garden of Life

Posted on May 20, 2020 by admin

Sometimes I have to hear a lesson several times before I start putting it into practice. I’ve come to think of this process as akin to gardening. Hearing the lesson once plants the seed. Hearing it several more times adds … Continue reading →

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Embracing Discomfort

Posted on December 26, 2019 by admin

For many people, it’s easier now than ever before to avoid trials, tribulations, difficulties, and suffering. There are many conveniences to modern life that have eliminated most of the problems that ancient humans faced. Although it’s natural to prefer things … Continue reading →

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