Category: Fear and Courage
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Growing Pains Suck. Let’s Frame Them in a Healthy Way and Ask For Help
When things are tough, don’t forget they you are not alone. And you’re never helpless. When faced with stress, overwhelm, anxiety or any other emotion that we deem unpleasant, please remind yourself about the tools that you have – including friends.
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What Can The Cold Teach Us?
The science behind cold exposure is very much real and not even that new at this point. There’s no controversy here.And it has a direct effect on our mental state! Hear more about and get inspired to take those cold showers by Wim Hof.
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In The End, Choose Yourself
Staying true to ourselves can be tough. Yet if we know what our values, principles, and life mission are, there is a certain peace that comes knowing this is what we have chosen.
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What Pride Month Actually Asks From Us
On Pride Month or any other month, I invite you to choose a part of your legacy to be to create a society (a community!) that is a bit more open, a bit more inclusive, and a bit more compassionate. But I hope that legacy involves speaking out for our LGBTQ community. That is nothing “in addition” to our compassion, kindness, and courage. That’s what they look like in action.
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How To Give Discomfort More Meaning
Discomfort oftentimes is a price we have to pay for the lives we want to live. They don’t have to involve politics or prisons, but it’s good to know that “a good life” will probably never mean zero discomfort. So we either try to avoid it or normalise it and see it as the price we pay for a life of integrity.
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Are There More Dimensions to Our Liberation?
Could there be more dimensions to our liberation? This was the question that came to mind as I was watching an interview with ALOK. ALOK (Alok Vaid-Menon) is a writer, public speaker, and artist whose very existence seems threatening to some. Why? You’ll see it in this interview.
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One Small Habit with Big Science Behind It That You Might Want to Try
Are there simple and easily formed habits that can push us towards being more compassionate with ourselves? Is there an “easy way’ to start the journey of being kinder to ourselves? Of course – many. Here’s one of them.
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Something to Open Our Hearts
I think that sometimes someone’s presence and kind words are enough to remind us that a life of love and inner peace is possible. On the first day of this year – or on any other day – we can get that radiating kindness from Thich Nhat Hahn.
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How to Manage Fear?
Fear is a companion we’ll always have. How we live with that companion is a choice: we can do that in ways that don’t serve us and we can put conscious effort to manage our minds just a little bit better.
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Be a Quitter!
Sometimes, the way to encourage yourself is to…discourage yourself! Among so many reminders to “keep on going”, we also need reminders to quit the thing that’s wrong for you. This article and podcast episode are exactly that: a kind reminder that you can allow yourself to quit the things that don’t serve you anymore. You can put the tool of quitting into your personal development toolbox.
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