After spending most of my life convinced I was terrible at giving gifts, I was told a few times more recently that I, and I quote, “gave the best gifts”. It made me quite happy to hear that as I’ve been trying to be a lot more intentional with my gift-giving over the past years. Around 3-4 years ago, I…
Category: Personal Transformation
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8 Mental Benefits of Running or How Running Transformed My Life
If I told you that running almost daily helped completely transform my life, would you believe me? Because it did. Running outside every day, no matter the weather, forces me to put into practice all the self-management skills I’m learning. It’s also the very thing that gives me enough mental strength to “manage” myself even better throughout the day. Overall,…
How to start journaling and why you should
If you’ve been reading my blog, you probably know by now that I mention journaling in most, if not all, of my posts. I’m a big fan of journaling! And yet for 20 years, although I kept telling myself how much I would love to keep a journal and start journaling, it never happened. I just couldn’t seem to do…
How I got rid of my severe depression and anxiety by facing and solving my problems
Are you so overwhelmed by your problems, and life in general, that all you want to do is crawl under your covers and cry all the time? After decades of struggling with severe depression and deteriorating physical health, I was finally able to regain power over my body and mind in ways I could not have ever imagined. I will…
26 habits that helped me overcome depression without medication
After spending over a decade struggling with physical and mental health issues, I finally understood I had a problem: severe depression, along with many other health problems actually, and I needed help urgently. That was in 2019. Up until that point, I guess I thought I was just ‘made that way’: miserable, unbearably sensitive and always oh so sad. The…