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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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Making Technology Work For You, So You Can Work on Yourself

BySarah Bowser November 16, 2022February 24, 2023

How often do we curse technology and its temperamental ways?

From not being able to figure out this or that new app or software, getting frustrated with the seemingly constant glitches, and just trying…

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How Getting Organized Helped Me Figure Out My Mess of a Brain

BySarah Bowser November 9, 2022February 24, 2023

Do you ever feel as though you’re desk, dining table – hell, your whole house – is one big dumping ground for every important piece of paper and every important notebook you’ve ever had?

Does everything in your mind feel like…

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Learning to Accept the Endings

BySarah Bowser October 26, 2022February 24, 2023

Coming to terms with the loss of a friendship or relationship is not an easy path in life.

We often end up questioning so much about ourselves as we grieve the ending, wondering…

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living as true self
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Why Organization is Important to Living as Your True Self

BySarah Bowser October 19, 2022February 24, 2023

Organization is a hit or miss thing for me.

In some aspects of my life, I’m super organized. In other aspects, I’m all over the place, and I by no means have any ducks in a row.

But where I do excel…

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Learning to Acknowledge and Hold Space for My Younger Self

BySarah Bowser October 12, 2022February 24, 2023

Feeling like a social outcast was a huge part of my life growing up.

I don’t say this in a “woe is me, pity me” kind of way. I say it as a way of acknowledging what…

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Awakening My True Self and Stepping Into My Truth

BySarah Bowser October 5, 2022February 24, 2023

Over this last week, I’ve had a lot of moments where it felt as though I’d been hit by a truck (in a good way) or where I had incredible moments of clarity.

The last few months have been…

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When You Have a People-Pleasing Personality

BySarah Bowser June 29, 2022February 24, 2023

Who else has regularly put their own needs and to-lists on the back burner because we seem to be incapable of saying no to other people?

It’s not just me, right?

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What Effect Does Chronic Illness Have on Relationships?

BySarah Bowser June 15, 2022February 24, 2023

Navigating my marriage while I was also navigating my newly diagnosed chronic illness was a, let’s say, interesting experience.

I’m lucky in that my marriage is…

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When the Overwhelm Creeps In

BySarah Bowser May 12, 2022February 22, 2023

Has anyone else felt like the last few weeks have just been – a lot?

Like, a-freaking-lot.

Between rebounding and adjusting course after…

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Adjusting Course After a Bout of Self-Sabotage

BySarah Bowser May 4, 2022February 22, 2023

So, I missed a really big goal this week.

For three and half months, I was taking focused action steps towards my fitness goal, which included a certain amount of weight loss.

At the beginning of April…

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when anxiety hits
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What to Do When Anxiety Hits

BySarah Bowser April 20, 2022February 22, 2023

That lightheaded, room spinning feeling, combined with stomach turning nausea hitting all at once is when I know that my anxiety is hitting me hard.

Sometimes it won’t…

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books and mental health
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Why Books Are Important to Our Mental Healing

BySarah Bowser March 30, 2022February 22, 2023

Have you ever needed that moment of escape? To leave your reality of mental and physical issues and enter a new world where none of that matters?

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spirituality and mental health
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How Spirituality Affects Mental Health

BySarah Bowser March 2, 2022February 22, 2023

As someone who doesn’t consider herself “religious”, spirituality still plays a big role in my life.

And spirituality can, sometimes, have an outsize affect on our mental health – either good or bad…

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movement and mental health
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Why Movement Is Good For Mental Health

BySarah Bowser February 23, 2022February 22, 2023

We all know that exercise is good for us.

But when we’re struggling with both our physical and mental health, getting in the exercise we need isn’t always easy…

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What Exactly is Mindfulness?

BySarah Bowser February 16, 2022February 22, 2023

A lot of times, when people teach about mindfulness, it’s this abstract thing – just clear your mind, pay attention, be calm.

It’s oftentimes people telling us to be…

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