When I began the process of examining my life, I didn’t have the intention to achieve life-mastery – I just wanted to be happy. I wanted to make the necessary changes in my life so I could live […]
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Before I got sober, I was a pretty negative person. In my world, the glass wasn’t half-empty, it was all the way empty. My favorite mantra was, “Life’s a bitch and then you die.” Finally, a series of
Christmas is always the worst time of year for me. 2011 was a particularly bad one. Shivering in the cold of my childhood bedroom, I sat – hands clasped around knees – thinking about how best to kill
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“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication–it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness.” – Franz Kafka. To understand my story you need to understand me
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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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My entire life, I’ve been searching for the feeling of being enough, even though I was never really sure what that meant. I just knew whatever it was, I wasn’t it. I wasn’t enough to keep my parents
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Stuttering is speaking with involuntary repetition and is often known as stammering. While it sounds rather innocent and common, a person with a stutter has a much different experience than a normal person. For a normal person, a
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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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“To travel is to take a journey into yourself” – Danny Kaye I achieved my biggest dream and it didn’t make me happy. That was when I had my epiphany. I live in Namibia and all through my
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For more than forty years, I’ve been transformed through the writing process. It all began at the age of six when I was at a sleepaway camp. In my camp trunk, my mother had packed a big box
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“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” ― Mercedes Lackey This time last year, I was still waiting for the jet lag to wear off at the beginning of a month-long trip in
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