Spirituality is often accompanied by the pressure to feel positivity all the time, leading to spiritual bypassing. How can one navigate toxic positivity?
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With the proliferation of therapy-speak in the public lexicon, people are more aware than ever of the need to validate the emotions of others. While it is encouraging to see people striving to engage in healthy and supportive dialogue with one another at a collective scale, I can’t help but notice that often enough people seem to misinterpret what is meant by the concept of emotional validation.
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I’ve spent the last several years in a variety of online metaphysical communities, sometimes as moderator, and more recently some in-person communities as well. One thing I have noticed is
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I’ve been wanting to write an article about the confusing and complex relationship I had with my beloved father for a while now, but just couldn’t get it going. When I saw The Whale, I connected so deeply with the portrayal of the father and daughter’s relationship that I knew this movie would be the perfect vehicle to share my own story. I’m not yet sure what shape this article is going to take as I flesh it out, but I will offer the requisite warning: this post contains spoilers for The Whale (2022).
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I got the opportunity to view my 2022 Year in Books on Goodreads and was excited to revisit my reading list from the year. I did not read a ton
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I wanted to talk about gratitude today and the impact it has had on my spiritual practice. There are many established benefits of practicing gratitude for mental health, which is
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Unsolicited advice is the act of giving advice, help, solutions, and so on, without having been solicited to do so. Everybody does this from time to time, some much more than others. This article explores the codependency inherent to unsolicited advice and offers strategies for managing.
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As I mentioned in another post, in lieu of writing Preparing to Confront my Mother Wound, I ended up choosing to cease all contact with my mother. I blocked her
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There is something that has been eluding me throughout all my healing work. My mother has somehow managed to be mysteriously absent from a lot of my inner work. My relationship to her has never been as much of a priority to me as my relationship with my father has. Across my adult life, it seemed obvious that my father was the root cause of many of my adverse behaviors and internal experiences. It was natural to look to the giant looming over me and conclude that this was my dragon to slay, none the wiser to the shadow being cast from my feet: my Mother Wound.
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I was in an online community recently where someone was asking for advice on how to implement a routine to promote good sleep hygiene and I surprised myself by having
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