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Tag Archives: personal growth
The Judgment of Weight
There are two things I will not board a plane without: a new magazine purchased at the airport and a purse filled with snacks. The snacks are self-explanatory in a day and age where one can get stuck on a … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Our Mistakes, Personal Growth/Spirituality, Research, Social Causes
Tagged Acceptance, chubby fairy, fat, fat studies, Friendship, Glamour, heavy, judgment, learning to accept, magazine, overweight, personal growth, prejudice, skinny, skinny witch, stereotype, stop judging, weight
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Are We Competitors? Or, Can We Be Friends?
The moments I love the most in life are when a veil is lifted, reminding me that what I thought was true, wasn’t. Just because my feelings told me one thing didn’t make it so. Such was the case with … Continue reading
What We Need Are More Women, Fewer Girls.
I begrudgingly watched The Bachelor last night and shuddered at how quickly girls sized each other up and put each other down. Hoping they’d feel more cool, more amazing, and more chosen in the process. Ignorant still to the truth … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Fears, Jealousy & Competition, Judging Others, Making Friends, Our Mistakes, Personal Growth/Spirituality
Tagged acting like girls, Competitors, difficult friendships, frenemy, growth, healthy friendships, immaturity, Inner Peace, Jenna & Monica, judgment, low self esteem, Making Friends, maturity, mean girls, painful relationships, personal growth, pity party, Rejection, selfishness, Spiritual Growth, The Bachelor, time to grow up., toxic, toxic friend, Value, Worth
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Top Ten Friendship Articles of 2011
In the spirit of celebrating another year lived and shared, I’m doing my first-ever Top Ten list. Here are the most read, popular blog posts from the last year: 1. The Mistake that Cost me a New Friendship This post … Continue reading
Posted in How To?, Maintaining Friends, Making Friends
Tagged articles, best of, BFF, blogs, favorite, Friendship, healthy relationships, How to Make Friends, personal growth, popular, Shasta Nelson, top ten
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How Annoying People Can Grow Me
Call the Holy Spirit your still small voice, your intuition, your wisdom, your highest self, your conscience, your place of peace, or whatever it is that guides you, but don’t miss the profundity of this upcoming statement. Marianne Williamson, in … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Fears, Happiness, Jealousy & Competition, Judging Others, Maintaining Friends, Making Friends, Our Mistakes
Tagged A Return to Love, annoy, How to Make Friends, how to stop judging others, Inner Peace, judging others, judgment, Marianne Williamson, maturity, personal growth, Spiritual Growth
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My Prayer: Who I Want To Be
I want to show up in life in such a way that you feel greeted in my presence. Welcomed. Worthy. Accepted. That means when I see you I start with love. It means I refuse to wait until my ego … Continue reading
Posted in Defining Friendship, Difficulty & Challenges, Fears, Jealousy & Competition, Judging Others, Our Mistakes, Qualities of Friendship
Tagged Acceptance, Encouragement, Forgiveness, Friendship, gratitude, Healthy Relationship, Inner Peace, judgment, love, marriage, meaning of namaste, my best, namaste, personal growth, relational health, relationship, Value, vows, what is namaste, worthy
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