Tag: emotional intellegence
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Finding Clarity: What to Do… When You Don’t Know What to Do
What if clarity isn’t something you force? Explore the relationship between attention, surrender, perception, and spiritual alignment through the symbols of the road, the dolphin, and the horizon.
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Maudlin Guilt: When Suffering Becomes Ego Worship
Sometimes guilt becomes less about accountability and more about self-absorption. Real humility doesn’t endlessly worship suffering. It acknowledges harm, seeks repair, and rejoins life.
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How Chronic Executive Control Quietly Exhausts the Mind
Some people move through life with an internal manager that never clocks out. Even during quiet moments, part of the mind remains active — organizing tomorrow, revisiting yesterday, evaluating the self in real time. This reflective neuroscience-informed essay explores executive functioning, chronic self-monitoring, burnout, flow states, and what happens when the mind finally loosens its…
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The Scaffolding
Maybe adulthood truly begins the moment we realize much of our inner world was assembled before we were old enough to examine it. Our ideas about love, responsibility, rest, suffering, and even God can become invisible scaffolding quietly holding up the architecture of the self — until one day, it no longer works. This is…
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We
What if happiness doesn’t come from focusing more on yourself, but less? A reflection on ego, community, service, and the surprising peace found in “we.”
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The Exhaustion of Social Expectations
This piece explores the hidden exhaustion of social performance — the subtle self-monitoring running beneath everyday interactions and the relief that comes when we stop managing ourselves long enough to simply participate in reality again. Through humor, humility, nervous system insight, and the strange comfort of cancelled plans, it examines why authenticity feels less draining…
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The Doorway You Entered Through
The patterns we repeat often began long before we understood them. A thoughtful exploration of childhood conditioning, self-awareness, manifestation, emotional survival strategies, and the quiet courage of questioning the stories we inherited.
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Embracing Emotional Authenticity: The Power of Humility
We spend so much of life performing versions of ourselves: the composed one, the enlightened one, the emotionally untouchable one. But what if humility isn’t about becoming less human… but finally embracing emotional authenticity and the quiet relief of being real? A deeply reflective piece on ego, self-awareness, nervous-system healing, and the freedom of letting…
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My Punk Kid Hero
When self-protection comes out as rage. This is my personal experience and insight in loving my inner punk kid hero.
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Understanding Metacognition: The Astute Son of Humility and a Guide to Better Thinking
What is Metacognition? How do researchers study this concept? Where do we see this anatomically and what happens when disrupted? How it relates to humility and a philosophy of life. Perspective Shifts.
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Morning Rituals for Spiritual Abundance
Morning rituals to take care of your presence so you can then take care of everything else.
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Reframing Success: Why Humility Matters
Success is not incongruent with humility. In fact, humility is important for sustained success.
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Reframed: Embrace Your Wandering Mind in Meditation
A way to practice meditation that takes all the pressure out.
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Spiritually Nostalgic and Subtle Message T-Shirts
My favorite subtle, cool, spiritual, easy to wear t-shirts.
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Make Your Home a Sanctuary: Easy Style Changes
Bring calm and serenity into your sanctuary with a few easy style tips and arrangements.
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From Pleasure to Contentment: The Discipline Shift
A scatter-brained adhd mom realizing the value of discipline in a spiritual life.