Tips + Tools + Life Lessons
What I Wish I Knew: Self-Love
Dear 19-year-old Molly, You’re embarking on your college experience with bright eyes and a fairly innocent view of the world. It’s admirable, honey, but unfortunately, college is not going to be an easy ride for you.
Read MoreConnecting with My Guide (wolves, bathing caps, tambourines and all)
She has so many names. We call her all sorts of things: inner self, authentic voice, soul, the true you, or our intuition.I call my inner knowledge my Guide. She is my connection to the essence of me that believes in goodness and joy and peace.
Read MoreHow to Conduct a Personal Quarterly Review
Remember back in January when you were set those big 2012 goals? You know the ones; how you wanted to run a marathon, start your Etsy shop, do more things for yourself… How’s progress, sweetness?
Read MoreThe ABC's of Self-Love Free Guide
I Believe in the Transformational Power of Adoring Ourselves. And the gorgeous women who contributed to this FREE GUIDE do to! As you probably know, I spent two weeks in February hosting a Fierce Love Blog Crawl to start a lively conversation across the internet about the meaning and practice of self-love. Before you? The 74 page aftermath of this experiment…
Read MoreThe ABC's of Self-Love: A is for Acceptance
“What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?” -Oriah Mountain Dreamer The very base of my self-love, of my willingness to adore myself, starts with acceptance. It starts with truly being, loving, and accepting the person I really am. It’s a work in progress, of course.
Read MoreThe Aftermath: Joyful Living in a Messy World
Last Thursday’s post opened up very candid conversation about so many different topics: children with disabilities and special needs, the value of a human life, pregnancy, infertility, abortion, adoption, genetic testing, ablelism…
Read MoreHow to Become an Optimist
It’s been a week since I started this adventure.
I haven’t felt this excited about my work in a LONG time! I think it’s the combination of reading the Season 5 Blogger applications, all the re-reading I’ve been doing on positive psychology, and my commitment to sharing my personal process with you. Ideas are flowing. To do lists are being conquered. My long-term vision of Stratejoy is starting to peek around the clouds of doubt that had been hovering lately.
Adventures in Flourishing
What exactly am I undertaking? It’s a commitment to all those personal best practices that I know make me the most vibrant and centered Molly possible, based on scientific studies of motivation, optimism, and character. It’s a personal experiment, not a preaching tool. It’s an inquiry into my own version of the good life. I’m going to be sharing my ups and downs with you, regardless of how I feel it makes me look.
Read MoreStarting Over (and over and over)
Each day is a chance to start over. Each moment is an opportunity to bring yourself into the present moment, releasing the anger about the past or the anxiety about the future. Each new sunrise gives you the openness of a new day, a day you can deliberately choose to live in support of your dreams or not.
Read MoreFeeling Overwhelmed?
Because I realize feeling overwhelmed is a temporary passing state, I’m giving myself permission to not have all my shit together right now. I trust myself enough to know that I will circle back to a state of “balance” where I become my first priority again. But for now? I’m taking this list to heart. And if you’re overwhelmed right now, I’m giving you permission to do the same.
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