Do you laminate everything? Imagine. You complete a project, save a piece of your child’s art or school work, save an award. Then you pull out your lamination machine and cover your accomplishments in a protective film. Now it’s safe, nice and neat, and can be displayed with minimal risk of it being destroyed. But…
I’ve always been the good kid, the good worker. The one who follows the rules, doesn’t question the status quo.
I was also the one who had no idea who she truly was inside…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…