Minds

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): When your parents fail to respond enough to your emotional needs. The negative effects last long into adulthood.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of internalized toxic beliefs, but it’s a start. Keep fighting the good fight, friends.

Happiness is not a tangible thing that we can acquire and capture in a jar — it’s a practice that is shaped by our thoughts.

Now and then, I think about what the santera revealed that day, how everything she told me comes true as the years go by.

In a moment when I couldn’t write myself, it was the writing of others that brought me back from the brink of my depressive episode.

The wonderful thing about knitting is that it combines mindfulness with mindlessness. You have to concentrate, sure, but you can easily lose yourself.

I like the idea that a smile can stand in for polite or genuine words that are omitted, due to language barriers. Yet, I literally cannot smile.

I’ll be 33 this year, and I’m proud to say I know myself much better as a thirty-something than I did as twenty-something.