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The Two Tools to Add to Your Mindset Toolbox First

BySarah Bowser May 24, 2023August 5, 2024

How do we start the mindset work to dig out of the massive hole we buried ourselves in long ago?

Learning how to reframe your thoughts in a way that is helpful instead of hurtful is one way to start the process. That’s not to say…

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It’s Time for a Rebellion

BySarah Bowser May 17, 2023August 5, 2024

Rebellion is a word that can carry with it a lot of terrifying imagery, a ton of unsettling and uncomfortable ideas.

Even just the ideas and images we always get in the movies of young kids, young teenagers, “rebelling” against their…

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staying strong in ourselves
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Staying Strong in Finding Ourselves Amidst Dissolving Friendships

BySarah Bowser May 10, 2023August 5, 2024

Shifting friendships is a reality for weird, nerdy women like us, once we start to do the work to uncover who we truly are, to accept ourselves for who we are.

This truly came to light for me at the height of the pandemic…

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Overcoming My Struggles with Food and Exercise

BySarah Bowser May 3, 2023August 5, 2024

Food and exercise. Diets and workout regimes.

These ideas, these rules, these expectations from society ruled my life for years.

When I was growing up, I was always…

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Shifting Friendships Amid Shifting Identities

BySarah Bowser April 26, 2023August 5, 2024

Uncovering your true self leads to an incredible amount of change. And that change will have ripple effects throughout the rest of your life.

At the beginning, as you start to go deeper below the surface, as the fences start to come down, the people around you…

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Let’s Experiment, Shall We?

BySarah Bowser April 19, 2023August 5, 2024

Dark and dusty laboratories. An eerie feeling to the air, while also feeling slightly off and slightly silly. Evoking images of Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein, the epitome of the fictional mad scientist.

How many of us think of something like this when the idea of experimentation comes to our minds?

We believe that…

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When Unexpected Events Throw Our Sense of Belonging Out the Door

BySarah Bowser April 12, 2023August 5, 2024

Unexpected health diagnoses, out-of-the-blue financial crises, or family drama can compound our feelings of not belonging, throwing us further into a spiral of self-doubt and loneliness.

My feelings of not belonging all of sudden…

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food and movement
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Changing the Way We View and Use Food and Movement

BySarah Bowser April 5, 2023August 5, 2024

Physical expression of ourselves and of our emotions is a normal part of life. We use our bodies to express ourselves all of the time.

But we don’t always do so in a healthy way.

Our bodies will…

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The Core Value I Never Believed I Could Truly Embody

BySarah Bowser March 29, 2023August 5, 2024

When I established and defined my own personal, core values, I was both surprised and not surprised.

As I brainstormed and worked my way through the process of figuring out how I process life and events, deep down, I knew that…

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Learning to Navigate Ourselves and Other Mom Groups

BySarah Bowser March 22, 2023August 5, 2024

Just when we think that adulthood couldn’t be any more difficult for trying to be accepted, to belong somewhere, we throw motherhood into the mix.

We love our kiddos. They are our world.

But there’s that little voice…

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How to Express Your Emotions in Ways That Benefit You

BySarah Bowser March 15, 2023August 5, 2024

How often do you express your emotions in healthy, productive ways?

I mean, in truly healthy ways – ways that are healthy and helpful for ourselves, first and foremost – not just in service of and helpful for the people around us.

When we’ve been…

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Pondering Our Socially Awkward Tendencies

BySarah Bowser March 8, 2023August 5, 2024

Social awkwardness is something that can plague us for the majority of our lives, and can, to our perception, at least, affect our ability to be granted belonging. And it can mean something…

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How to Find Your Values Through the Fog

BySarah Bowser March 1, 2023August 5, 2024

Values are a funny thing.

We can think that we know what we stand for, what we believe in, what we value. But when we come to that proverbial fork in the road, that moment where we’re put in a situation by a friend or family member that…

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Finding Our Way Through the Tears of Our Youth

BySarah Bowser February 22, 2023August 5, 2024

If you’re like me, you were most likely the odd one out from the very beginning.

For as long as I can remember, there was always this little nagging in the back of my head, this…

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When Loneliness and Rejection Aren’t What They Seem

BySarah Bowser February 15, 2023August 5, 2024

Loneliness and rejection are two feelings that most of us try to avoid in life.

On their own, they’re enough to give you that constant punched in the gut feeling, that confused mental state of…

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who you truly are
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The Right Timeline to Unbury Who You Truly Are

BySarah Bowser February 8, 2023August 5, 2024

We’ve spent our lives thus far in a state of socially awkward anxiety.

Our mindset is firmly in the realm of never belonging. We’re so used to being in this head space, that we struggle to…

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When Being an Adult Doesn’t Make Belonging Any Easier

BySarah Bowser February 1, 2023August 5, 2024

How many of us have reached our adult years, looked around at everything we have going on, and wished we had an “adultier adult” to help us handle things?

And that sometimes includes wishing…

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Finding Belonging Among Society’s Ridiculous Expectations

BySarah Bowser January 18, 2023August 5, 2024

The journey of trying to belong is more of an epic saga, one that we’ve been on for our entire lives.

It’s a long, sometimes exhausting trek along…

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