         Upon my chasing happiness journey, I figured that being my best self will contribute to my happiness. So, besides my anxiety and grief, what’s been holding me back? What’s affecting me? When I get to the root, I know part of it is due to my weight gain over the last few years. About … More Self-Improving with a dose of Healthy Distractions (Chasing Happiness pt2)
         Lately, I’ve been narrowing in on my bad traits. Not the apparent traits that can be easily pointed out, but the negative traits that I never knew that I had. I’ve always been an honest person, who would admit to my faults, but now I’m discovering things about myself that I wasn’t aware of … More Self-Awareness (Coming to Realizations during Solitude. Don’t be Afraid of your Truths.)
In the beginning of the year, I wrote a post called Chasing Happiness in 2022. This past March I wrote a post called Chasing Peace. Today I’m here to present Chasing Freedom. I’ve been wanting to write about this for the past few weeks. Last week I just had a lot on my mind, … More Chasing Freedom (Financial Freedom, Mental & Physical Freedom)
In a previous post I’ve mentioned one of my favorite quotes from The Office. It was the last season and Andy Bernard stated, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” That quote stuck with me since the very first time I heard … More When You Feel that the Good Old Days are Behind You . . . (There’s still hope)
For this week’s topic I thought it would be interesting to speak on the power of the mind. The mind is such a fascinating topic for me because the things that are said about what the mind can do is so intriguing. Sometimes I wonder… how much power does our minds truly possess? You … More The Power of the Mind vs The Power of Doubt.
         Today I came across a journal prompt that really grasped my attention. It made me think about the past and future. The question was: What’s three things you’d do if you weren’t so afraid? As a person who let fear rule her life, it made me want to dive into this topic. There were … More Three Things I Would Do if I weren’t so Afraid.
         Today I was in deep thought about the evolution of oneself, and who we are as people. Many people start out one way and become a completely different person years later. Some change slowly while others might even plateau for decades after a certain age. When I was a kid, I was happy, free … More Versions of Me (The metamorphosis of self) Level 5.0
Most of us who are familiar with enneagrams know that there’s a great deal of good and bad within each number. Well, today I was thinking about the enneagram number that I wish I could be. After going back and forth and researching all the numbers I noticed that one of them really stuck … More The Enneagram Number I Wish I Could Be . . . (Hint: A Free-Spirited Extrovert Who Throws Caution to the Wind.)
How much time could you spend alone? What’s your limit until you start to feel like you’re mentally or emotionally affected? I thought about these questions a lot lately. As an introvert who likes alone time, I realized that sometimes there is a limit. Nothing is good in excess. I spend a lot of time … More Spending too much Time Alone is affecting my Mental/Emotional Health. (I need a change!)
While I was headed out of town last week I was listening to different podcasts on the road, and one of the podcasts was talking about their Enneagram number. They had a panel of people talking about how your number can show you some hard truths. If you’re completely honest while taking the test … More I Got Checked by My Enneagram Number (Blogmas #5)
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