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Why Fear Is Your Best Teacher
What Is Fear? A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Dictionary.com You can see from the above definition, just how broad the context of fear really is and how it can manifest in your life. Fear can take…
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Loving Yourself: Why You Should Prioritise This Over Everything
Sounds selfish right? What if I said to you that self-hate is a coping mechanism. One to enable you to avoid facing pain by providing yourself with an internal dialogue of criticism and shaming different aspects of yourself. In this way, you can control the hurt that you inflict on yourself and more importantly its…
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Your Mind Is More Powerful Than You Think
It is hard to imagine your mind without any thoughts, right? It is your constant, internal dialogue that you have with yourself. What to eat, what to wear, what to say and what to do. Would it shock you if I told you that you can have anywhere between 60,000-80,000 thoughts per day? This is…
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You Are Not Your Emotions
It took me a long time to realise that I am not my emotions and that it is perfectly ok to feel whatever emotions that arise at any moment. I also felt that it was “bad” to feel any sort of so-called negative emotions e.g. anger, sadness, fear and that the ultimate desired state was…
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6 Steps To Stop Self-Sabotaging Yourself
Self-sabotage: to behave, especially habitually or compulsively, in a way that interferes directly with one’s own goals, well-being, relationships, etc. http://www.dictionary.com How Has It Manifested For Me? I’ll caveat that this is not an exhaustive list of self-sabotaging behaviours and just some of the experiences that I have personally dealt with regarding my own self-sabotage.…
