Confidence is a funny thing. We all want it. It is the key to success. It's the route to self-assuredness. It's the holy grail of finding that sweet spot in life where our self esteem is at its peak, where we have all the answers, and where every problem has a solution. "Go with your gut!" "Trust your ...
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Courage, dear heart: Finding Freedom in Facing Fear
Today, I conquered one of my most drawn out fears. It has been nineteen years since I last had to face this fear, and back then I didn't even have to do it by myself. I was only eleven and, as my sister so eloquently worded to me today (tongue in cheek, as she is in that small band of people that truly understand my ...
A Wounded Warrior: My Journey with Traumatic Birth and PTSD
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Modern Views on Young Marriage
[image credit: Sky Simone Photography] I have the torso of a ten-year-old boy and more baby-hairs than what is acceptable for an adult. I’m well aware that I look like I’m 12. However, it was never so obvious to me until after I was married. Are your rings real? How old are you? Is your husband rich or something? But ...
Katherine Louise on Happiness
Happiness is always such a sketchy topic. It's so broad and expansive, and can cover such sweet, fleeting moments that become memories, or such incredible depth that changes you forever. I like to think that both are important, providing only the second one is the one you pursue. It's also the harder one to obtain. Of ...
Shemma Timney on Happiness
Happiness is a fickle thing, isn’t it? Last week there was this moment, I was standing in my kitchen cupping a very fragrant mug of Earl Grey in my hands. I could feel a cool breeze coming through my dining room window and in that same breeze, I could see the bedsheets on the clothesline out back billow up full of ...
My Happy List: Letting the Little Things Shape my Happiness
It’s the little things. Am I right? It’s those little pockets of happiness throughout the day that make the hours that much sweeter – and I do mean the little, tiny things. Things you probably wouldn’t even notice unless you’ve got your happiness detection switch turned all the way up to full. If you’ve never made a ...
Why We Shouldn’t Marry For Happiness
When I was 20 years old, which was not very long ago, I did something that was absolutely outrageous for the time. Even today, almost-complete-strangers will question me on the decision that I made and continue to stand by. “You did what?!” they will profusely question, “But aren’t you too young?!” “Yes,” I will ...
How to Cultivate Happiness (without relying on others)
As a stay at home mum, I often find my life gets mired in details. In the everyday mundane, I can feel like my life is boring and ordinary. Not unhappy as such, but not particularly happy either. I then find myself in a space where I am swayed by the emotions of others. My reality becomes, “if my children are happy ...
The Art of Recognizing Joy (What Lights Your Room?)
Someone once pointed out to me that darkness is the absence of light. If you go into a room, close the door, turn out the lights, draw the curtains, eradicate every little bit of light – you have darkness. True, pure darkness cannot exist where there is even a skerrick of light. On the flip side, the moment the ...
Embracing Your Creativity When You Don’t Think You’re That Creative
I love creativity. Read these words carefully, because when I write that sentence, it's in the same vein of someone saying "I love love." They love the things to do with love; they love having someone to care for and to care for them. They love the romantic dinner dates. The enormous feeling that can overwhelm their ...