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Getting sober marks the beginning of a journey, not the end destination. The early days feel overwhelming as you navigate life without your previous coping mechanisms. Your body adjusts, your mind clears, and suddenly, you face emotions you’ve avoided for months or years. Self-care becomes essential during sobriety, yet many people approach it wrongly, thinking […]
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Thinking about returning to college can bring up a mixture of excitement and uncertainty. You might feel a strong pull toward new opportunities, a different career, or simply the desire to finish something you started. However, you’ll need a few tips to navigate the decision-making process with clarity and confidence. We will cover how to
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Imposter syndrome is a stubborn companion for many entrepreneurs. That sneaky inner voice tells you that you’re out of your depth, and it can easily chip away at your confidence. But here’s the truth—confidence is more about perception than perfection. Sometimes, acting like you know what you’re doing can eventually help you believe you do.
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Proper self-care looks different from person to person, but one thing I think we can all agree on is this: A lot of of the popular self-care techniques aren’t all that helpful. I’ve always been practical about my own self-care practices from the start. As such, I wasn’t really pulled into the allure of crystals
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Why is it so difficult to have strong relationships? In self-help, so many gurus encourage us to have strong bonds for all kinds of reasons. Some for the sake of picking up various traits that can enhance your life—like the power of association. In other cases, it’s a technique that is useful for living a
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If I’m to describe what this year means to me, the best way I can sum it up is that it’s a year of small growth in my life. Every day and every year, I am of the mind that we are constantly and consistently growing in some ways, and all you have to do
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Full Disclosure: The author gifted me this book to do this review. In an industry where our primary goal is to give simple advice, how many of us can say that the advice we get is all that simple to do? With all of our lives being different, there are nuances and complexities to it
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As a means of stabilizing my financial situation last month, I’ve been making an effort to look for more work than I have been. It’s tough given that my stomping grounds for gigs is UpWork. A site that I owe a lot to, but has been acting weirder and weirder. It’s at a point now
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My mom cleans the homes of a variety of people from all different walks of life. One family she cleans twice per week is a family from the middle-east who moved to Canada years ago. The wife of the household who hired Molly Maid to clean her home does all of the heavy lifting around
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The first ever concert I attended was with the Anglican church I went to as a teen. It was called Revival at Belfast, and it featured an ensemble of musicians from around the Maritimes to play with Christian singer Robin Mark — a man born in Belfast. It was a three day event with the first two
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We don’t always realize a great person in our lives until they are gone. The impression that they left on us. How they make us feel. But one other way that hides under the surface is when other people comment on certain things when you bring them up. This occurred to me when I was
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When I first entered the self-help world, there were several YouTubers that I followed. I did this to build my view of the industry, learn how to optimize my own life, and learn how others did it. Those in the self-help or self-improvement world are people who have already “made it” in life, or at
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