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Guest Posts - Write For Psycholocrazy. Top 100 Tiny Buddha Articles – The Definitive Self Improvement Collection. TinyBuddha.com is one of the world’s best loved personal development blogs, with over 4 million readers visiting every month.

Top 100 Tiny Buddha Articles – The Definitive Self Improvement Collection

Founder Lori Deschene developed a large, passionate community of readers and authors, and as she says herself, “Though I run this site, it is not mine. It’s ours.” I’ve contributed several articles myself, and the website was part of the inspiration for my own website, Cracking The Happiness Code. One of the things I love about TinyBuddha – it’s a perfect example of how the internet has and is democratizing access to knowledge and information. No longer does the student of personal growth have to shell out $5,000 bucks to have a hotshot guru have us walk over fiery coals, blow even hotter air up our collective colons, and leave us with little but a scorching sensation in our wallets.

Now, we can pop online, fire up good ol’ Google, and be inundated with delectable personal development ambrosia in a matter of minutes. Selection Method Overcoming Negative Emotions Change. Stop Feeling Crappy. Blog - A Year of Silence. I love technology.

Blog - A Year of Silence

I’m a writer, blogger, and I run an online business. Technology has allowed me to live the life that I currently live. As long as I have a computer and an internet connection, I can live anywhere and work anywhere. I love the freedom that technology brings to my life. But it’s only in the last few months that I’ve seen just how big of a role this connection had in my needing a year of silence. Before this silence began, I was completely connected to technology and completely frazzled.

Like many, I was on the computer and online from the time I woke up until I dropped into bed at night. There were very few boundaries, and I felt like I was becoming a slave to technology. The more I talked about this with others, the more I realized I wasn’t alone. Here are some recent statistics that demonstrate how truly connected we all are: Radicati recently reported that the average number of emails sent and received each day was 121.

No wonder I was tired! BE INSPIRED! Relax YOUR mind, Renew YOUR thoughts & Rejuvenate YOUR spirit. This Is What Anxiety Feels Like - Liv Light. Anxiety is debilitating.

This Is What Anxiety Feels Like - Liv Light

It feels like a constant heaviness in your mind; like something isn’t quite right, although oftentimes you don’t know exactly what that something is. It feels like acid in your stomach, burning and eating away at the emptiness and taking away any feelings of hunger. Stop Blaming Others – Your Life Sucks Because of YOU - UpgradeReality. This article is to help you get rid of the ‘victim’ mentality.

Stop Blaming Others – Your Life Sucks Because of YOU - UpgradeReality

To help you get rid of the fact that you think that your life sucks because other people make your life suck. That you’re overweight because you don’t have time to go to the gym or that your supermarket doesn’t sell vegetables. That you haven’t gotten laid in a year because nobody has approached you and asked you out. Do you get the point…? 8 Creative Techniques to Cope with Painful Emotions. Many of us have a hard time coping with negative emotions.

8 Creative Techniques to Cope with Painful Emotions

This makes sense. “Painful feelings like anxiety, sadness, anger and shame tap into the parts of our brain that are connected to survival,” according to Joy Malek, M.S., a licensed marriage and family therapist. For instance, the anger we feel when we’re hurt is the same as the flight, fight or freeze response we experience when our survival is seriously threatened, she said. We also tend to learn very early that getting mad or crying is not OK, said Meredith Janson, MA, LPC, a therapist in private practice in Washington, D.C. who specializes in expressive arts therapy. 9 Ways to Bold Up Your Life when Nothing Else Works. 9 Ways to Bold Up Your Life when Nothing Else Works. You Be You. And I’ll Be Me. Welcome to Soul Speak!

You Be You. And I’ll Be Me.

If you’re ready to slow down for a moment, listen to your inner wisdom, push through your fears, and support others on the same journey, you’re in the right place! Click above to receive these Soul-Connection Tools for free! Ladies, join #AspireMag's #MissiontoInspire 100,000 Women campaign as a #TeamInspiration partner. Healthy Recipes, Fitness, Weight Loss & Green Living - Whole Living. Channeling Depression Into a Powerful Tool for Creativity.

I wouldn't exactly call depression a gift, but I’ve come to accept the restless emptiness and nagging sadness as signals from my soul instead of merely the symptoms of an illness to be excised.

Channeling Depression Into a Powerful Tool for Creativity

This didn’t come easy. I spent two decades coping with the side effects of antidepressants, the ups and downs of biofeedback, and expensive weekend seminars, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Then about 10 years ago, in my early 40s, I decided to take a different tack and listen to my depression instead of trying to tamp it down or explain it away. It’s still a daily battle, but there have been joyful triumphs along the way. Learning to listen to my depression has transformed my career over the past seven years. Depression May Boost Creativity Decades of research have found that introversion, emotional sensitivity, and vulnerability to negativity—seeing the glass as half empty—are all common personality traits of highly creative people.