Do you have a dirty secret life as well? Do you do things alone that fill you with shame and self-loathing? Do you have activities and addictions that you want to keep from your loved ones and that […]
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The waiter caught me at a bad time. “Quires más guapa?” (Want anything more, beautiful?) I looked up at him, like a deer caught in the headlights, hunched over my plate and stuffing the last bit of bread
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“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.” – Buddha There are moments when we don’t feel happy, adequate, or capable; when we feel low and weak, down and out. Sometimes we let
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I’ve changed a lot in the past year. From an overweight insecure guy with a terrible inferiority complex to the person I am today. Fitness played an important part in my transformation. Anyone that has ever been overweight
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I’ve suffered from eczema ever since middle school and it sucks. It has varying degrees of annoying and embarrassing symptoms. In my case, it would appear as either red splotches on my cheeks or arms (one of my
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The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly. – Carl Honoré I used to be one of those people who rushes from A to B and has a day’s to-do list ten items
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“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow” – Swedish Proverb What are you not doing because of what other people think? If I didn’t die from the bar crushing my throat, I was sure it would
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.” – Zig Ziglar I remember that first cold, black night well. It was early December 2013 and I finally gave in to
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Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. ― Amit Ray As a child, I never considered myself an athlete at all as I was very uncoordinated. However, I did love
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” … can’t you see I’ve gotTo live my life the way I feel is right for meMight not be right for you but it’s right for me …”“Elsewhere” by Sarah McLachlan There was a night in late
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Most of us, myself included, probably don’t embark on a new hobby and think that it’ll change our lives. When I began training for my first marathon in 2007, it was strictly a bucket-list thing, something that’d surely
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