Tag: healing
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No one has your back as good as you do
I’ll get to talking about the trauma, the past I’ve long tried to heal from without facing it.
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Damn. How The Year 2020 Taught me how to Curse
I was staring into the fire in my friend’s backyard, we sat socially distant around her fire pit, and I said “that shit doesn’t even matter.” Then I panicked. “Who AM I?” I thought, shocked and awed that I just said the word “shit” so flawlessly — out loud! No one else flinched, the conversation…
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Happy people get sad too
My whole life I’ve had to answer the question: “Do you smile all the time?” and the answer is yes. I am generally a happy person. When people find out I spent years homeless and the abuse that got me there, they then ask me “how are you so happy?” Being happy, bubbly and positive…
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Grieving the mother you never had
This will be my first full year without my mom. She’s around, somewhere living her best life. I’m trying to do the same, but I have to do it without her. Mother/daughter relationships can be complex. They go through phases. As a teen, mom knows nothing, as a adult you find out mom was always…
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Burning sage turns my bad days into good ones
I go through great lengths to keep a positive attitude every day, but some days I’m stank. Just in a funk. Usually it’s because I’m mentally exhausted or, as an empathy sponge (an empath), I’ve soaked up my limit of other people’s ish. On those bad days I like to be to by myself. Alone…
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5 ASMR artists you should know
Tingles…tingles…TINGLES!!! If you don’t know what ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is then let me put you on game. You ever felt relaxed when someone played in your hair? Does watching someone put on makeup put you in a trance? Or do certain sounds make a tingly wave go down your body? …
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The life of an empath
According to the dictionary an empath is: “a person with the ability to sense the mental or emotional state of another individual.” In Liz terms an empath is: someone who consistently puts themselves in the shoes of others and then attempts to sooth that pain as if it’s theirs. We absorb other people’s emotions. …
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4 healing crystals for self love
Last year I got deep into meditation and being aware of the energy around me. My job at the time was stressful and I was around a lot of people, so finding time for myself was imperative. After a busy day at work meditation provided me with the escape I needed to relax and clam…
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