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In answer to the blog title: of course you can! nn How? Well, that’s not as straightforward an answer–or so people think. nn Personally, I believe it’s actually easier than we realize. It’s just that the reality of its simplicity only exists if you believe it does–at least on a subconscious level. In essence, the…

I’m curious, how much do you rely on your alarm to wake up in the morning? And, how much to you rely on your self-discipline to go to bed at a time that allows you enough sleep before you need to get up? nn In my journal below, I consider the chicken or the egg…

Maybe we haven’t all experienced depression, but we’ve all experienced periods of our lives where we’re feeling low. For me, this was one of them. nn This post is going to be a little different than most. Instead of highlighting one of my journal entries, I’m including all of one, and then the beginning snippets…

I struggle to get out of bed some mornings, or I suppose all mornings on a certain level. Most especially when I’m in a depressed state, but since college too, it’s been more of a mission to get myself ‘up and at ’em.’ In this journal, I was totally giving myself a much needed pep…

(This photo wasn’t from when I had my endoscopy, but it’s one I felt embodied my empowerment as a patient!) nnn Have you ever gone to a doctor and been frustrated about the way you’ve been treated, or weren’t really listened to, etc? This would happen to me all the time, because for some reason,…

(As I was getting ready for the endoscopy, I took a moment and recognized how proud I was of the mental calmness I was feeling and how I had created it by visualizing [over and over!] everything going well ahead of time.) nnn We’ve all been there. Whether in a big or seemingly small way,…

This journal entry is a short one, and honestly I wrote it outside of my normal journal time. It was one of those times where the words were bubbling up and I felt the urge to write them out of me. nn Reading them again after this past year, has me feeling as if the…

I seem to go all over the place in this journal as I delve into a friend’s question: “Do you think our needs need to be met in order to be happy?” nn As I read back over what I wrote last year, I think when I argued that happiness may be found in the…

As we go through life, we sometimes wake up from a stupor where we realize we may have only been physically going through the motions, but mentally or emotionally, we were far far away. nn In my journey towards self-love, I’ve become cognizant that I’ve been doing things for myself (ie. self care) more from…

Up until very recently, I’ve had a hard time staying consistent with my routines. Whether it was my morning routine, exercise routine, etc. What made it difficult for me? A whole lot of resistance. I figured well, if I’m resisting something, maybe it’s because I’m not clear on why I’m doing it? So for each…