Healing

Coping With Trust Issues

By: Psychic Rhonda

It is very difficult getting past a betrayal and broken trust in a relationship and sometimes some people are not able to. You love your partner dearly, but you can’t seem to get past that infidelity that happened before. You question every move and everything suddenly becomes suspicious. Working late, if they went where they said they went, text messages, etc. What was once pure lovers bliss has become a very miserable life. You argue more but you don’t want to; however, your intuition is telling you that they are back to their old tricks again and you are being played for a fool.

How to Start Setting Boundaries and Prioritizing Your Needs

By: Naomi Arnold

“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.” ~Tony Gaskins

I highly value being loyal, honest, empathetic, and supportive. I am also partial to advocating for the underdog. As a result, I have historically attempted to be a ‘hero’ in situations of difficulty, tension, conflict, or stress.

I take pride in being the person who others can turn to for support, guidance, and empathy after an upsetting experience.

When a friend was going through a troublesome period, I literally dropped everything to race to her and give her a hand.

6 Ways to Make Dating Less Frustrating

By: Melodi Cowan

“You are strong when you know your weaknesses. You are beautiful when you appreciate your flaws. You are wise when you learn from your mistakes.” ~Unknown

Social discovery apps and online dating sites provide us with an incredible amount of dating options. It should be easier to find the right person. Ironically, having more options has led to increased impatience and high expectations among those of us searching for love.

We disregard potential friends and mates at the blink of an eye, often trading them in for the illusory search for the ideal person.

How Relationship Issues Can Lead to Growth (and Why It’s a Daily Process)

By: Zachary Goodson

“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” ~Unknown

Relationships are tough. Even more difficult is maintaining healthy boundaries within a relationship.

My head hurts and I feel like I’m going to throw up. Let me explain. I’m in a loving, healthy relationship with a beautiful woman, and I’m proud to call her my partner.

Great, so why do I feel like I want to throw up? Well, because last night was a tough night for us,

The Effects of Settling

By: Psychic Rhonda

Everyone has their ideal mate in mind and what type of relationship they desire but sometimes we meet the total opposite or someone who may only possess half of the characteristics we want and the relationship works out beautifully. However, there are times when we choose someone who is out of our league in a bad way..in other words settling. You notice right away things about them that are turn offs or habits that you wouldn’t normally associate yourself with but you’ve been single for quite some time and hey, you got lonely. Now,

How to Let Go of the Fear of Being Hurt Again

By Cloris Kylie Stock

“Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear.” ~Unknown 

My pet fish died today. Red-striped fins as beautiful as always, he was swimming around in his tank only four weeks ago. First he became less active. Next he refused to eat. Then he was gone.

As I buried him in the yard, my first thought was, I don’t want to have a pet fish ever again. Awareness kicked in, and I realized that my thought was triggered by fear to experience an unpleasant circumstance such as this again.

The Art of Love – A Guide For Those Falling in Love For the First Time

By: Psychic Shawn

What is Love?

For those who have experienced love, you very well could be shouting a million different thoughts on what love is to you. This article is for those who have never experienced love before, think of it as a guide book for the first time of falling in love, helping you to understand what you are feeling. Love in itself represents the power of human existence; love transcends time and space, mind and soul. Your reality can be changed into something of an alien experience for those who are falling in love for the first time as they find themselves feeling anxious,

You Deserve to Chill: How to Create Space to Heal and De-stress

By Jodi Aman

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Why do we stress ourselves out? Why is it that being productive and getting tasks done is more important than healing and taking the time to feel calm?

Stress and anxiety can affect our lives in so many different ways. A few years ago, it manifested itself in me physically, in a pretty gross way.

There was a time I had a plantar wart on the bottom of my left foot, and it was very painful.

5 Things I Wish I Did When Dating an Addict

By: Monica Viera

“Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.” ~Kimberly Jones

I was finally in a solid place when I met my now-ex-boyfriend earlier this year. I had created some healthy habits for myself and was fully recovered from the eating disorder that had ruled my life for eight years prior.

Things had turned around completely for me, as now I was getting my first novel published and had a flourishing greeting card line.

When I first met my ex,

Having Doubts Doesn’t Mean Your Relationship Is Doomed

By KC McCormick

“When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” ~Fred Rogers

There aren’t many clichés I resent more than this old chestnut about finding true love: “When you know, you know.”

As a late bloomer and skeptic who took her sweet time to get into a relationship, after decades of singleness and observation, nothing made me feel more like an outsider than the idea that love is an unexplainable phenomenon reserved for people who “know.”

In my early years of singledom,

Co-Dependent Relationships

By: Psychic Janette

Relationships can be a most difficult subject in human life. Our first relationships we have with parents and family members are key because parents are the first people who should give support to their children, teach them to be appreciated, loved, and help to build their self esteem.

How we get treated in our childhood has a big impact later in our lives.
If your parents have been cold and did not give enough emotional support while helping to build self confidence, we become afraid of being alone as we have lack of trust that we can be fine by ourselves.

Do What Excites You: How to Push Through Fear & Make Bold Choices

By Miranda Hill

“You’ve got to do things that feel unnatural if you want to grow.” ~Jon Morrow

“You’re leaving, aren’t you?” my boss said.

“Yes,” I nodded.

“What do I have to pay you to make you stay?” he asked.

I just stared at him. No words would come.

“There’s nothing I can do, is there?” he said.

More silence. But my inner voice was anything but silent. I was consumed with doubt and deafened by the bloody battle raging inside my head.

On one side was caution,

Why “Be Positive” Isn’t the Best Advice When You’re Down

By Michael James

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.” ~Rumi

As much as I tried to apply personal development ideas in my life, I failed big time.

All the affirmations in the world couldn’t make me love myself.

The more I tried to “be present,” the more all-over-the-place my mind became, getting lost in overthinking.

Mindfulness didn’t work for me either. Observing my thoughts got me to chase each and every thought and analyze it.

Embracing Change

There’s just something about Fall. Naturally, I love the beautiful colors and the vivid imagery, but to me, it also seems like a time to embrace change. Even after the season is halfway over, it’s still a time to shed away our outdated layers and prepare ourselves for journeys down brand new roads.

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It’s not always easy to turn the page in our own story and start writing a brand new chapter. It can be downright scary to stare down at a blank page and wonder what words are going to come next.

Three Tips For Getting Back Out There

We all know difficult relationships can take a real toll on our emotions. You can go from being on top of the world to a state where you don’t even want to communicate with anyone. Heartbreak is never easy. It’s not easy to put the pieces back together again after having your heart shattered over and over. It’s not easy to regain the will to pursue new connections when the pain from your last relationship is still fresh, but it will eventually happen. The below lists three ways to start getting yourself back out there. If you have truly taken the time to heal and are starting to feel a lot better about yourself as well as where you are going,

Your Life Is Your Own

I believe it’s fair to say that most of us have experienced difficult situations or ran into problems that continually pile on top of each other, but if everything in life is going wrong and you feel down all the time, then it’s time to figure out what you can do to make it better. Easier said than done at times, but it’s important to remember your life is your own.

Get lost in yourself and learn to better understand you. Reach in deep, look around, and get to the heart of the matter. Find out what you have or haven’t been doing to make your life better.

Three Reasons Why Emotional Independence Will Change Your Life

As spiritual beings, every one of us has the right to our own emotional freedom. We have a right to feel what we feel and express ourselves in an authentic way; however, too often this freedom becomes locked down and caged. This is especially true in relationship scenarios, but is never healthy. Have you ever been in a relationship where you stepped away from your own authentic self to please the other person? Have you ever let go of your own creative ways in order to try and catch someone’s attention even more? Have you ever been afraid to show how you really feel because you assumed you would be rejected?

3 Things To Remember For Anyone Who Has Been In a Bad Relationship

Bad relationships can really leave a mark. They can leave you feeling insecure, without ambition, and completely closed off to the idea of love. You may even become jaded and swear off the idea of love altogether. It’s much easier to just go on about your own business and do things that make you feel great. Then it happens. A new energy enters your life and sends your spirit flying high. You feel tingly all over and even get butterflies in your stomach the second you see him or her. The mere sight of this new individual will even make you want to become the best version of you possible.

Three Relationship Killers And How To Prevent Them

When any of us hold someone dear to our hearts, we will often cling like glue to make sure everything stays in place. If you have been hurt several times in the past, there is a chance you will hold on even tighter. Nobody wants to go through heartbreak all over again. Nobody wants to stay up all night and replay every single event that led to a relationship’s demise until the tears run dry. Emotional pain is, without a doubt, one of the most grueling feelings you will ever experience. And, once these types of feelings start to consume you,

Be Extraordinary In Five Steps

When you are focused on a relationship matter, it’s difficult to remember yourself. You mind will spiral out of control and you will lose sight of everything you want to accomplish in this life. It doesn’t happen every time, but it is easy to drop all of your goals and focus exclusively on the complicated situation as well as the emotional pain you are currently dealing with. Simply put, when your heart hurts, you may not notice anything else. We ran across the below video last week and felt compelled to share it with all of you here today.