Flaring passions

Good and bad are such subjective terms, cultivating healthy self-esteem can be a different process for different people. Faith is a journey that takes people on different paths. There is no right or wrong as they can be blurred between the lines. Forgiveness can be really hard at times but this one statement is something that brings clarity into my life.  Never do something that you wouldn’t want others to do to you This is a simple statement that doesn’t really need more explanation. It can be explained to a 6-year-old student and that provides a great little buffer for things. It teaches you what you should expect from others but more importantly what you should uphold yourself. Doing something without any expectation may sound very idealistic but the thing is that there will come a time when it will take a toll on you. Putting yourself first is also important and some people learn this truth the hard way. Actions will always have consequences and what you do for others will ulti...

Have you ever sat down and thought about your deepest fears? If you are anything like me or most millennials you have probably done this an unhealthy number of times. It scares you in the middle of the day and scares you in the middle of the night too. You wish you could oversee all these things but for some reason, you keep feeding your brain reasons why things should not work out instead of why they should. You keep fixating on the problems rather than trying to come up with a solution for them because sometimes it is easy to comfort yourself with misery. ‘Your biggest fear is not that you are inadequate but that you are powerful beyond measure' Sometimes it is hard to believe in these words ‘Powerful Beyond measure’, not because I can’t believe it but because this sentence comes with a certain responsibility. This statement tells us that we control our attitudes in life and how we react to everything which is really scary because we cannot control everything that happens to us a...