It took me so long to get here, to find one day of solace, of comfort, after a long storm. It smells like fresh, gooey raspberry jam and honey spread thick on a warm, buttery scone. I invite you to take a slow, crumbly bite into the goodness of contentment with me. Contentment feels like
If you are feeling lost, this video is for you. Jordan Peterson shares incredibly insightful life advice on how to overcome sadness, and achieve your goals. Sometimes the journey through life isn’t much about becoming anything. It can be about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to
“Sometimes the thing you’re most afraid of doing, is the very thing that will set you free.” ~Robert Tew I recovered from binge eating and bulimia by giving myself permission to binge. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? My decades-long weight and food war started in my teens, immediately after reading my first diet book, about Atkins,
One mother’s controversial take on sharing started a passionate discussion and just might make you think differently. What’s mine is mine Posting on Facebook, Alanya Kolberg recounted bringing her son Carson to meet a friend for a little playtime at the park, where she said things quickly got out of hand. “As soon as we walked
Meghan Markle, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, is seeking 1.5 million pounds (C$2.6 million) in legal costs after she won a privacy claim against the Mail on Sunday which had printed extracts of a letter she wrote to her father. Last month, a judge at London’s High Court ruled the tabloid had breached her privacy and
On this episode, we chat about how to avoid “all or nothing” thinking—also known as the “eff it” effect, or the abstinence violation effect, if you want to get technical about it. Topics covered include: ⁃ Not being satisfied by partial success⁃ How the effect plays out across different time scales⁃ The idea of “sunk
I turned 22 on December 23rd, 2019. It was a great birthday. I didn’t get terribly intoxicated (though I did preemptively celebrate my birthday a week prior and that ended in me coming home and throwing up in a pile of my clean laundry) (Trashy but make it classy). I went to Applebee’s with my
“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.” ~Zadie Smith In the last years of my twenties, my life completely fell apart. I’d moved to Hollywood to become an actor, but after a few years in Tinsel Town things weren’t panning out the way I hoped. My crippling anxiety kept
A mother’s post went viral on Reddit after she broke up with her now ex-husband for kicking out their gay son. How not to treat an LGBTQ+ child Coming out to your parents is an extremely difficult thing to do for many kids — and a dad named Mark provided a perfect example of exactly what
“You must have changed, because you definitely weren’t an extrovert when I met you.” That’s what one of my friends said when I referred to myself as an extrovert. I knew why he was confused. I was the person who locked up or gave painfully general responses when asked simple questions like “How are you?”