How are your New Year’s resolutions coming along? Are you still riding the high of a new beginning? Or, has the road been a little bumpier than you expected? Don’t fret if you’re having difficulties; it happens to all of us. The Fabulous app is designed to help you stay on track with exactly these kinds of setbacks in mind. And if you’re looking to…
It’s nearly 1 AM. You should be in bed but you’ve been hit with a nasty case of the midnight munchies. You’ve tried everything but meditating cravings away doesn’t ever seem to work nearly as well as health bloggers say it does. Before you know it, you’ve inhaled a pint of ice cream and, after deciding there’s no coming back from your failure, going back…
Expressing feelings have gotten a bad rep. Social media prides us on relentless positivity, we’re encouraged to persevere through tough situations with an unwavering smile on our face and then we’re praised for being so strong. Many of us even feel ashamed when we feel a “bad” emotion like sadness or anger, and instead, we opt to keep those feelings to ourselves while we put…
In The Book of Joy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu says this about overcoming fear: Fear and anxiety are mechanisms that have helped us to survive. You know, if you did not feel fear when you saw a lion over there… in next to no time there would be no you. [Without fear], we would be fearless, but we’d also be very stupid, and we would not…
Gabourey Sidibe was told by three different psychics on three different occasions that she would someday become famous. They didn’t know how, when, or why, only that she would someday be a household name, even famous enough to meet Oprah. There was something in her eyes, they said, something about the confidence with which she carried herself, that would someday make her a superstar. As…
The world has changed more in the past 30 years than it has in the past 300 years. Before the internet, if something happened on the other side of the world, it took days or even weeks to finally reach us. Now, however, we find out things minutes after they happen. We’re bombarded day in and day out with 24-hour news about tragedies across the…
