#letting-go — Public Fediverse posts
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9 Practical Tips for Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You in a Chaotic World
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2024/06/letting-go
#LettingGo #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Wellness #Meditation
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9 Practical Tips for Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You in a Chaotic World
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2024/06/letting-go
#LettingGo #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Wellness #Meditation
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9 Practical Tips for Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You in a Chaotic World
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2024/06/letting-go
#LettingGo #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Wellness #Meditation
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9 Practical Tips for Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You in a Chaotic World
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2024/06/letting-go
#LettingGo #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Wellness #Meditation
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#MakingItMonday… Check inside the baggage…
#LettingGo #Change #IntentionalLiving #SeasonalRhythm #EmotionalWisdom
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving Website
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood Content & Resources
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#MakingItMonday… Check inside the baggage…
#LettingGo #Change #IntentionalLiving #SeasonalRhythm #EmotionalWisdom
https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving Website
https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood Content & Resources
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Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
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Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
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Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
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Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving the past behind. It means acknowledging the ghosts, understanding our motives, and learning to embrace the life we're living now without letting yesterday decide what happens next. ❤️ #MovingForward #LettingGo #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney #LivingInThePresent #MovingOn #SelfReflection #Photography #RealTalk #Instagram #Relationships #NewBeginnings #LifeJourney #LoveMeAnyways #RickOllie
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Slowing Down: Learning to Live Within My Limits
Slowing down. Slowing down. Slowing down.
That’s what I’ve been doing for the last five years.
Health issues and life in general required a slower pace. There were things I simply couldn’t do anymore, or couldn’t do in the way I once had. So I learned to slow down—not necessarily because I wanted to, but because I had to.
And lately, something has shifted.
My health hasn’t magically returned to what it was before, but I have been able to do more. I’m slowly rebuilding strength. I’ve started lifting weights again, carefully and deliberately, and I’m working on my mobility. There are glimpses of the person I used to be physically, and I’m grateful for them.
But progress brings its own challenge.
When you begin feeling better, it’s very easy to start thinking you can do more. And then a little more. And maybe just one more thing. Until suddenly, you’ve filled the space that slowing down was meant to protect.
I’m learning that getting stronger doesn’t mean I no longer need to be mindful of my limits.
I’m also a caregiver to my aging parents, both of whom are living with dementia, which adds another layer to that balance. My days aren’t entirely my own, and there are times when the needs of other people have to come before what I might want to do. Caregiving can be unpredictable, exhausting, and sometimes lonely, and I know I’m far from the only person trying to navigate this complicated role while also trying to take care of myself.
That’s part of why I’ve become more intentional about leaving room in my days. I need downtime. I need rest. I need time to read, sit outside, or simply do nothing for a while. Those things aren’t luxuries; they’re part of what allows me to keep going.
Recently, I had the flu, which triggered a flare in my symptoms. It was a good reminder that my body still has its own timetable. So I’m constantly reminding myself not to overdo it, not to cram too much into a day, and not to fill every empty space on the calendar simply because I happen to feel good that day.
I need to leave room for downtime. For rest. For reading. For sitting outside and breathing fresh air without needing to accomplish anything while I’m there.
This is harder than it sounds.
Because there are things I want to do. Things I genuinely enjoy. And every once in a while, I have a day when I feel almost like a normal, fully functioning human being.
Those are the dangerous days.
Not because feeling good is dangerous, but because I get excited.
I start thinking about all the things I could do. All the things I’ve been putting off. All the things I might finally be able to take on again. And I have to remind myself that one good day doesn’t necessarily mean my circumstances have changed.
I was recently asked to teach an oil pastel class at a local art store, and I’m very excited about it. It’s something I genuinely want to do. But it also brought up some very legitimate concerns.
Years ago, I taught Reiki at a local yoga studio. I enjoyed teaching, but there were times when my health made it impossible. I remember being scheduled to teach and then having a migraine that lasted for two weeks. I had to cancel.
When something like that happens repeatedly, you start thinking about the people on the other side of the commitment. They’ve paid. They’ve made plans. They’ve put aside time for themselves. And then you have to cancel at the last minute.
Eventually, I stopped teaching because I couldn’t reliably promise that I would be well enough to show up.
So when the opportunity to teach oil pastels came along, my first instinct was to put it off.
Maybe winter. Maybe later. Maybe when things with my parents settle down. Maybe when my health is more predictable. Maybe when life feels a little less complicated.
But I’m beginning to recognize something: there will probably always be a reason to wait.
There will always be something that needs attention. Something that could be better. Something that could be more certain. And I don’t want slowing down to become another way of putting my life on hold.
At the same time, I don’t want enthusiasm to convince me that my limitations have disappeared.
So maybe the answer isn’t choosing between doing everything and doing nothing. Maybe it’s learning to live in the space between them.
To move forward slowly. To leave room around the things that matter. To say yes to something I’m excited about without immediately filling the rest of my life with more commitments. To allow myself to enjoy progress without demanding that progress happen faster.
I’ve spent the last five years learning that I can’t feel guilty for what I can’t do. I can’t push myself beyond my limitations because I feel bad about disappointing someone else. Because if I don’t take care of myself, I can’t take care of the people who depend on me.
And somewhere along the way, I realized that taking care of myself isn’t selfish. It’s part of the responsibility.
That realization has changed the way I think about slowing down.
Slowing down doesn’t mean I’m giving up. It doesn’t mean I’m wasting time. It doesn’t mean I’m falling behind.
Sometimes slowing down is simply how I make room for my actual life.
And maybe that’s why I keep coming back to something I wrote for one of my meditations:
Nothing needs to change right now.
Not my health. Not my schedule. Not my limitations. Not my responsibilities. Not my progress. Not even the things I wish were different.
I can acknowledge that I want some things to change without requiring them to change today.
I can be excited about what might be possible without demanding that it happen immediately.
I can rest without earning it. I can pause without having a reason. I can simply be here.
Because sometimes the most important thing I can do isn’t push myself toward the life I want.
Sometimes it’s noticing that I’m already living it.
I found myself returning to this idea so often that I eventually turned it into a meditation: Nothing Needs to Change Right Now. If it sounds like something you could use, you’re welcome to spend a few minutes with it.
For Those Caring for Someone With Dementia
If you’re caring for a parent, partner, or another loved one with dementia, you don’t have to figure everything out on your own. I’ve found that having reliable information and knowing where to look for support can make an enormous difference.
Here are a few places that may be helpful:
National Institute on Aging — Alzheimer’s Caregiving
Information about day-to-day caregiving, communication and behavior changes, finding help, long-term care, and taking care of yourself as a caregiver.Alzheimer’s Association — 24/7 Helpline
The Alzheimer’s Association offers a free, confidential helpline for people living with dementia, caregivers, families, and anyone looking for information or support. They can also help connect caregivers with local resources and support groups.Eldercare Locator
A federal service that can help you find local resources for older adults and their caregivers, including services available in your community.I’m sharing these resources because I know how easy it is to feel like you’re supposed to figure all of this out on your own. You aren’t.
#caregiving #dementia #dementiaCaregiving #findingBalance #intentionalLiving #lettingGo #livingWithLimitations #lupus #migraine #restAndRecovery #selfCompassion #slowingDown -
I am not a musician myself, at all, even less a composer. But your "I really wanted to write a double bar" touches me deeply.
And I love the idea of a sequenced completion, where each bit is final on one level, but it remains part of an ongoing larger work, which on another level will still alter the way the completed individual piece breathes.
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I am not a musician myself, at all, even less a composer. But your "I really wanted to write a double bar" touches me deeply.
And I love the idea of a sequenced completion, where each bit is final on one level, but it remains part of an ongoing larger work, which on another level will still alter the way the completed individual piece breathes.
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I am not a musician myself, at all, even less a composer. But your "I really wanted to write a double bar" touches me deeply.
And I love the idea of a sequenced completion, where each bit is final on one level, but it remains part of an ongoing larger work, which on another level will still alter the way the completed individual piece breathes.
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I am not a musician myself, at all, even less a composer. But your "I really wanted to write a double bar" touches me deeply.
And I love the idea of a sequenced completion, where each bit is final on one level, but it remains part of an ongoing larger work, which on another level will still alter the way the completed individual piece breathes.
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Lockjaw
peacegroover@deviantartI need to lose this bulldog mentality,
this eternal case of lockjaw.There is nothing wrong with tenacity,
but so much of what I hold onto leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.It trickles down my throat like arsenic,
sickening my soul,
and oozes out of my pores onto those closest to me.Anger is the byproduct,
a loathing of self then spilled upon others,
toxicity.Release.
Balm for sore jaws.
Something else to chew on.
Grace?September 12, 2014
#Anger #bitterness #bulldogMentality #darkReflection #eerie #emotionalHealing #Grace #hauntingImage #innerConflict #jawTension #LettingGo #lockjaw #Mercy #photoIllustration #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #psychologicalDepth #release #selfLoathing #soul #spiritualStruggle #strange #stubbornness #surreal #surrender #Tenacity #toxicity #Transformation #Worry #Writing -
Lockjaw
peacegroover@deviantartI need to lose this bulldog mentality,
this eternal case of lockjaw.There is nothing wrong with tenacity,
but so much of what I hold onto leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.It trickles down my throat like arsenic,
sickening my soul,
and oozes out of my pores onto those closest to me.Anger is the byproduct,
a loathing of self then spilled upon others,
toxicity.Release.
Balm for sore jaws.
Something else to chew on.
Grace?September 12, 2014
#Anger #bitterness #bulldogMentality #darkReflection #eerie #emotionalHealing #Grace #hauntingImage #innerConflict #jawTension #LettingGo #lockjaw #Mercy #photoIllustration #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #psychologicalDepth #release #selfLoathing #soul #spiritualStruggle #strange #stubbornness #surreal #surrender #Tenacity #toxicity #Transformation #Worry #Writing -
Lockjaw
peacegroover@deviantartI need to lose this bulldog mentality,
this eternal case of lockjaw.There is nothing wrong with tenacity,
but so much of what I hold onto leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.It trickles down my throat like arsenic,
sickening my soul,
and oozes out of my pores onto those closest to me.Anger is the byproduct,
a loathing of self then spilled upon others,
toxicity.Release.
Balm for sore jaws.
Something else to chew on.
Grace?September 12, 2014
#Anger #bitterness #bulldogMentality #darkReflection #eerie #emotionalHealing #Grace #hauntingImage #innerConflict #jawTension #LettingGo #lockjaw #Mercy #photoIllustration #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #psychologicalDepth #release #selfLoathing #soul #spiritualStruggle #strange #stubbornness #surreal #surrender #Tenacity #toxicity #Transformation #Worry #Writing -
What would change if you accepted that closure may never come from the person you’re waiting for it from?
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What would change if you accepted that closure may never come from the person you’re waiting for it from?
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Worrywart
I am a worrier.
Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.
I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.
That way I won’t be surprised.
It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.
Or faith in God.
Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.
I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…
Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.
I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.
Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.
An old song comes to mind . . . “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”
Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …
It is time once again to release the reins.
September 11, 2014
#AngerAndFear #Anxiety #ChristianLiving #ChristianMeditation #devotionalWriting #emotionalHealth #Faith #Fear #God #GodIsBigger #Healing #Hope #HopefulLiving #innerTurmoil #LetGoAndLetGod #LettingGo #MentalHealth #peace #PeaceOfMind #Prayer #PrayerAndTrust #presence #ReleasingControl #restlessness #sleeplessNights #spiritualGrowth #SpiritualReflection #surrender #TrustInGod #TrustingGod #Worry #woundedHeart -
Worrywart
I am a worrier.
Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.
I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.
That way I won’t be surprised.
It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.
Or faith in God.
Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.
I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…
Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.
I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.
Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.
An old song comes to mind . . . “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”
Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …
It is time once again to release the reins.
September 11, 2014
#AngerAndFear #Anxiety #ChristianLiving #ChristianMeditation #devotionalWriting #emotionalHealth #Faith #Fear #God #GodIsBigger #Healing #Hope #HopefulLiving #innerTurmoil #LetGoAndLetGod #LettingGo #MentalHealth #peace #PeaceOfMind #Prayer #PrayerAndTrust #presence #ReleasingControl #restlessness #sleeplessNights #spiritualGrowth #SpiritualReflection #surrender #TrustInGod #TrustingGod #Worry #woundedHeart -
Worrywart
I am a worrier.
Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.
I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.
That way I won’t be surprised.
It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.
Or faith in God.
Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.
I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…
Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.
I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.
Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.
An old song comes to mind . . . “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”
Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …
It is time once again to release the reins.
September 11, 2014
#AngerAndFear #Anxiety #ChristianLiving #ChristianMeditation #devotionalWriting #emotionalHealth #Faith #Fear #God #GodIsBigger #Healing #Hope #HopefulLiving #innerTurmoil #LetGoAndLetGod #LettingGo #MentalHealth #peace #PeaceOfMind #Prayer #PrayerAndTrust #presence #ReleasingControl #restlessness #sleeplessNights #spiritualGrowth #SpiritualReflection #surrender #TrustInGod #TrustingGod #Worry #woundedHeart -
Worrywart
I am a worrier.
Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.
I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.
That way I won’t be surprised.
It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.
Or faith in God.
Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.
I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…
Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.
I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.
Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.
An old song comes to mind . . . “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”
Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …
It is time once again to release the reins.
September 11, 2014
#AngerAndFear #Anxiety #ChristianLiving #ChristianMeditation #devotionalWriting #emotionalHealth #Faith #Fear #God #GodIsBigger #Healing #Hope #HopefulLiving #innerTurmoil #LetGoAndLetGod #LettingGo #MentalHealth #peace #PeaceOfMind #Prayer #PrayerAndTrust #presence #ReleasingControl #restlessness #sleeplessNights #spiritualGrowth #SpiritualReflection #surrender #TrustInGod #TrustingGod #Worry #woundedHeart -
CW: ⚠︎ Mentions of sexual trauma, emotional coercion, personal accounts of non-consensual intimacy, and domestic abuse.
A personal reflection on the pressure of modern sexual culture, living through unrecognised trauma disguised as a relationship, and finally choosing my own conscience.
#personalreflections #traumarecovery #livedexperience #mentalhealth #bodilyautonomy #boundaries #healing #authenticity #lettinggo #movingforward #mytruth #triggerwarning
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CW: ⚠︎ Mentions of sexual trauma, emotional coercion, personal accounts of non-consensual intimacy, and domestic abuse.
A personal reflection on the pressure of modern sexual culture, living through unrecognised trauma disguised as a relationship, and finally choosing my own conscience.
#personalreflections #traumarecovery #livedexperience #mentalhealth #bodilyautonomy #boundaries #healing #authenticity #lettinggo #movingforward #mytruth #triggerwarning
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CW: ⚠︎ Mentions of sexual trauma, emotional coercion, personal accounts of non-consensual intimacy, and domestic abuse.
A personal reflection on the pressure of modern sexual culture, living through unrecognised trauma disguised as a relationship, and finally choosing my own conscience.
#personalreflections #traumarecovery #livedexperience #mentalhealth #bodilyautonomy #boundaries #healing #authenticity #lettinggo #movingforward #mytruth #triggerwarning
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CW: ⚠︎ Mentions of sexual trauma, emotional coercion, personal accounts of non-consensual intimacy, and domestic abuse.
A personal reflection on the pressure of modern sexual culture, living through unrecognised trauma disguised as a relationship, and finally choosing my own conscience.
#personalreflections #traumarecovery #livedexperience #mentalhealth #bodilyautonomy #boundaries #healing #authenticity #lettinggo #movingforward #mytruth #triggerwarning
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Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives
Welcome back to Day 2 of our goal-setting challenge! Yesterday, we focused on laying the foundation. Today, it's time to get specific about what you want to achieve and how you’re going to get there. Vague goals often lead to a lack of progress. To build on yesterday’s momentum, we're going to transition your aspirations into concrete, actionable steps. Get Your Day 2 Worksheet Ready to visualize your success and map out your path? […]https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/day-2-mapping-your-vision-defining-objectives/
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Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives
Welcome back to Day 2 of our goal-setting challenge! Yesterday, we focused on laying the foundation. Today, it's time to get specific about what you want to achieve and how you’re going to get there. Vague goals often lead to a lack of progress. To build on yesterday’s momentum, we're going to transition your aspirations into concrete, actionable steps. Get Your Day 2 Worksheet Ready to visualize your success and map out your path? […]https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/day-2-mapping-your-vision-defining-objectives/
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Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives
Welcome back to Day 2 of our goal-setting challenge! Yesterday, we focused on laying the foundation. Today, it's time to get specific about what you want to achieve and how you’re going to get there. Vague goals often lead to a lack of progress. To build on yesterday’s momentum, we're going to transition your aspirations into concrete, actionable steps. Get Your Day 2 Worksheet Ready to visualize your success and map out your path? […]https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/day-2-mapping-your-vision-defining-objectives/
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Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives
Welcome back to Day 2 of our goal-setting challenge! Yesterday, we focused on laying the foundation. Today, it's time to get specific about what you want to achieve and how you’re going to get there. Vague goals often lead to a lack of progress. To build on yesterday’s momentum, we're going to transition your aspirations into concrete, actionable steps. Get Your Day 2 Worksheet Ready to visualize your success and map out your path? […]https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/day-2-mapping-your-vision-defining-objectives/
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Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain
When we think about addiction recovery, standard tools come to mind: therapy, support groups, and perhaps medication. However, one of the most effective, accessible, and scientifically backed methods for healing the addicted brain is often overlooked—expressive writing. Our brains are remarkably plastic. Continued substance use alters the pathways responsible for reward, stress, and impulse control. Healing this physical damage requires active engagement, and journaling provides […] -
Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain
When we think about addiction recovery, standard tools come to mind: therapy, support groups, and perhaps medication. However, one of the most effective, accessible, and scientifically backed methods for healing the addicted brain is often overlooked—expressive writing. Our brains are remarkably plastic. Continued substance use alters the pathways responsible for reward, stress, and impulse control. Healing this physical damage requires active engagement, and journaling provides […] -
Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain
When we think about addiction recovery, standard tools come to mind: therapy, support groups, and perhaps medication. However, one of the most effective, accessible, and scientifically backed methods for healing the addicted brain is often overlooked—expressive writing. Our brains are remarkably plastic. Continued substance use alters the pathways responsible for reward, stress, and impulse control. Healing this physical damage requires active engagement, and journaling provides […] -
Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain
When we think about addiction recovery, standard tools come to mind: therapy, support groups, and perhaps medication. However, one of the most effective, accessible, and scientifically backed methods for healing the addicted brain is often overlooked—expressive writing. Our brains are remarkably plastic. Continued substance use alters the pathways responsible for reward, stress, and impulse control. Healing this physical damage requires active engagement, and journaling provides […] -
Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t a person.
It’s the story you keep telling yourself about what could have been.
That’s Detachment.
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Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t a person.
It’s the story you keep telling yourself about what could have been.
That’s Detachment.
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QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎
At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.
Probably this:
Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.
QUIETLY.
There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.
I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.
Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin
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QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎
At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.
Probably this:
Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.
QUIETLY.
There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.
I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.
Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin
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QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎
At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.
Probably this:
Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.
QUIETLY.
There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.
I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.
Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.
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QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎
At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.
Probably this:
Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.
QUIETLY.
There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.
I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.
Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.
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The Beauty of Broken Things
I almost stepped over it.
It was just a piece of broken shell lying in the dirt, surrounded by pine needles, stones, and the debris that accumulates wherever nature is left to itself.
But then I saw the color.
That impossible blue against the earth.
And I stopped.
I wondered how many beautiful things we miss because we have already decided that broken means ruined.
There’s something almost absurdly beautiful about the broken turquoise shell lying in dirt and pine needles. It’s not beautiful despite being broken. The brokenness is what makes it visually arresting. The jagged edges, the pieces scattered around it, the contrast between that almost luminous blue and the ordinary earth.
And then there are those little intact forms beside it—whole, quiet, almost egg-like things. So you have this natural juxtaposition of whole and broken, becoming and becoming-undone.
We like the unbroken bowl.
The finished painting.
The relationship that works.
The body that doesn’t betray us.
The life that follows the plan.We tend to look at the broken thing and immediately think:
This needs to be fixed.
But what if brokenness isn’t always a failure of the thing?
What if sometimes the breaking is part of what reveals it?
A shell has to break for something to emerge from it. A seed has to split open. A fallen branch becomes habitat. A decaying thing feeds something else. Even the pieces of something that can no longer be made whole become part of the landscape.
And maybe people aren’t so different.
Perhaps we spend too much of our lives trying to return ourselves to a version of whole that never really existed.
A version only held in memory.
Maybe this is true of our memories, too.
A fragment here. A face there. The feeling of sunlight through a particular window. The sound of someone’s voice. A sentence we can’t quite remember but somehow remember how it made us feel.
We take these fragments and build a story around them.
And sometimes, without realizing it, we mistake the story for the thing itself.
We remember childhood as a place we could once return to. A relationship as something that was once whole. A version of ourselves we imagine we might somehow find again.
But perhaps what we’re remembering was never quite as whole as we believe.
What happens when we stop trying to put the memories back together?
Because maybe the fragments don’t need to reconstruct the whole.
Maybe a broken memory can simply be a piece of what was—valuable without being complete, beautiful without being entirely accurate.
The turquoise eggshell isn’t beautiful because you can reconstruct the object it once belonged to.
It’s beautiful as a fragment.
Some things don’t need to be made whole to be worthy of being held.
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Finding Your Higher Power: Trusting When God Removes People From Your Life
“Don't be worried about the people God removed from your life. He heard conversations you didn't. He saw actions you couldn't. So He made moves you wouldn't Losing someone can feel like losing part of yourself. We may ask why they left, what we did wrong, or why God allowed it. But sometimes, what feels like loss is actually protection. Learning to Trust Finding your Higher Power means trusting even when you don't understand. In recovery and life, surrender is difficult because we want […] -
Finding Your Higher Power: Trusting When God Removes People From Your Life
“Don't be worried about the people God removed from your life. He heard conversations you didn't. He saw actions you couldn't. So He made moves you wouldn't Losing someone can feel like losing part of yourself. We may ask why they left, what we did wrong, or why God allowed it. But sometimes, what feels like loss is actually protection. Learning to Trust Finding your Higher Power means trusting even when you don't understand. In recovery and life, surrender is difficult because we want […] -
Finding Your Higher Power: Trusting When God Removes People From Your Life
“Don't be worried about the people God removed from your life. He heard conversations you didn't. He saw actions you couldn't. So He made moves you wouldn't Losing someone can feel like losing part of yourself. We may ask why they left, what we did wrong, or why God allowed it. But sometimes, what feels like loss is actually protection. Learning to Trust Finding your Higher Power means trusting even when you don't understand. In recovery and life, surrender is difficult because we want […] -
Finding Your Higher Power: Trusting When God Removes People From Your Life
“Don't be worried about the people God removed from your life. He heard conversations you didn't. He saw actions you couldn't. So He made moves you wouldn't Losing someone can feel like losing part of yourself. We may ask why they left, what we did wrong, or why God allowed it. But sometimes, what feels like loss is actually protection. Learning to Trust Finding your Higher Power means trusting even when you don't understand. In recovery and life, surrender is difficult because we want […] -
Detachment is one of the hardest phases of The Reset. No one can tell you how long it will take. Are you really in Phase 3?
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Detachment is one of the hardest phases of The Reset. No one can tell you how long it will take. Are you really in Phase 3?
#TheReset #PsychozoicEra #Detachment #PersonalGrowth #LettingGo
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Time to tidy up my hoardings! To danshari (断捨離)! I’ve decided to get rid of at least one unnecessary item every day. Wish me luck! It’s harder than it sounds. 😅😆
Today, I recycled some pretty wallpaper with which my friend wrapped a gift to me. I was gonna repurpose it, but I’ve got no idea. So off it goes!
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Time to tidy up my hoardings! To danshari (断捨離)! I’ve decided to get rid of at least one unnecessary item every day. Wish me luck! It’s harder than it sounds. 😅😆
Today, I recycled some pretty wallpaper with which my friend wrapped a gift to me. I was gonna repurpose it, but I’ve got no idea. So off it goes!