How Mindfulness Made Me a Better Parent
Meditation and mindfulness helped Joy overcome the effects of anxiety and become a better parent to her daughters. Here’s how she did it.
Healing / Real-Life Stories / Self-Discovery
by Joy Rains · Published November 15, 2016 · Last modified January 5, 2017
Meditation and mindfulness helped Joy overcome the effects of anxiety and become a better parent to her daughters. Here’s how she did it.
Courage / Healing / Real-Life Stories / Self-Discovery
by The Real Us · Published November 11, 2016 · Last modified October 17, 2019
“I have believed you, owned you, lived with you, shrunk because of you, nearly broke apart in your hands many times, I have seen how easily you can destroy.”
Family & Relationships / Healing / Real-Life Stories
by Rosalind Sedacca · Published November 8, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Rosalind took a unique approach to telling her kid about the divorce. Little did she know that he would end up thanking her for it years later!
Family & Relationships / Healing / Poems
by Jessica Mehta · Published October 25, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
“Call this a love letter, call it
Our Story,
unlike anyone else’s, but with threads
and adornments from the Great
Ones—the star-crossed fables, the fairy tales”
Family & Relationships / Healing / Real-Life Stories
by Richard Haight · Published October 20, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
After being exploited, Richard could have easily fallen into resentment and blame. Instead, he chose to learn something valuable from the situation.
“My mind goes where my heart
dares not; feelings and logic;
tug-of-war.”
Family & Relationships / Healing / Real-Life Stories
by Tabita Green · Published October 2, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Medications led Tabita’s 13-year-old daughter to hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, and eight psychiatric hospitalizations. Here’s how she healed.
“I tanned the cancer into my flesh …shaved my teeth
to needles …filling
my mouth with bathroom fixtures, let doctors
cut me apart like a hunting prize”
Healing / Real-Life Stories / Self-Discovery
by Karin Sieger · Published September 12, 2016 · Last modified October 11, 2016
“I will make peace. I have to make peace, in order to die in peace, wherever, whenever that may be.”
by Jennifer Mannion · Published August 26, 2016 · Last modified October 16, 2016
Jennifer was told she’d be in a wheelchair within a year and then continue to deteriorate. This is how she healed herself, physically and emotionally.