You’re hopeless, useless, burdensome. Nothing will ever go well, everyone is always better than you, you’ll never be perfect. You want to be liked, but you’re unlovable, and a failure at life. Sound familiar? To the majority of people this language does. Mental traps – or ego defense mechanisms – serve as the rusty cogs […]
15 Signs You Have Complicated Grief (a Spiritual Malady)
This is an article for all those who have experienced regular grief and loss, and are struggling to move forward. And this article is also for those who have experienced grief so profound that it has become chronic and debilitating. The latter variety of grief that is ongoing (for many years), is also known as […]
101+ Morning Affirmations For Anxiety & Depression Sufferers
Morning affirmations can either be devastatingly useless or stunningly impactful. It all depends on how we approach them. On one hand, we can use affirmations to put a sparkly feel-good bandaid over our deeper core issues. (This is how most people approach them.) But on the other, we can also use affirmations to hold space […]
15 Signs You’re Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency
You’ve gone through a tremendous spiritual awakening. Your life perspective has changed drastically. You’re no longer the same person you once were a few years ago. But something has gone horribly wrong. While others on the spiritual path are reveling in their deep insights, you feel suffocated under the weight of an existential crisis. While […]
How to Stop Dark Unwanted Thoughts (3 Liberating Steps)
Unwanted thoughts creep over us out of nowhere. They’re weird, graphic, strange, disturbing, ugly, taboo, and embarrassing. Most of us forget or ignore them – but some of us can’t help but feel ashamed by them. Some of us just can’t look away. In fact, these thoughts may plague us so much that we might […]
Self-Loathing: 15 Signs You Hate Yourself (& Why it Happens)
Your life is a living hell. No matter what you do, no matter where you go, there’s the unshakeable feeling within you that you’re pathetic, worthless, ugly, stupid, and a total failure at everything. You may achieve something, you may be given love and affection, but you brush it off because of the toxic shame-ridden […]
