We all know it to be true. Gratitude has always had a way of making a poor situation better. Of finding that silver lining when we can truly only see the grey cloud. But how do we go about bringing more gratitude into our lives? Here are a few tips that have helped me open… Continue reading the power of gratitude

I know I’ve only just decided to begin blogging again and I intended to catch up on my life and the what’s haps, but I would be unwell if I didn’t try to address what is currently happening around me. As of just a few days ago, there have been multiple major wildfires around us… Continue reading fires in south los angeles

It’s funny people tell me quite often that I should write about my life because, hello, I do have a blog, But people having to bring it up reminds me of something important: I don’t write as often as I need to. I talk about writing being my release and how I love blogging and poetry… Continue reading Baby Steps to Success

I’ve recently been introduced to a concept that is, honestly, something we’re all aware of in some shape or form. And it has completely changed my life. It’s called the law of attraction and it is a huge topic. There are so many ways to describe it but the truth is that it’s all the… Continue reading The Power of the Law of Attraction

For the longest time I told myself I didn’t deserve to be happy. Or that I deserved nice things. Or that I deserved to be treated well. Or that anything good, really, served me any purpose because I simply didn’t deserve it. This notion came from the thought process that there are people that have… Continue reading You’re Allowed to Have Good Things (Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise)

If you look at the date of when I last posted, you would think I abandoned my blog. And to be utterly and completely honest with you, I was so busy that I forgot I had one (I also forgot everything else I needed to do in that time so I’m not sure if that’s… Continue reading Time Away is Still Okay!!

I recently chose to reread a book that I bought a little while ago (David D. Burns’ Feeling Good) with hopes that I could actually get something out of it this time. In the book there’s this exercise in which the reader pinpoints all of his/her negative thoughts and tries to rewrite them into something… Continue reading Be Nice to Yourself (and Others)

I’m writing this about five minutes after having bawled to Stevie Wonder in the middle of my yoga practice today. Believe me when I say that wasn’t how I expected my yoga practice to go, but that’s how it went. And I’m so glad it did go that way. It dawned on me that I’ve… Continue reading One Day at a Time

I decided that I wanted to change my life for the better. I decided that I was tired of living the same sad life that I’d been living and that I needed to adjust a lot of things. I knew that it would be positive for me, and I knew it would be difficult, but… Continue reading Things That Happened When I Did Better for Myself