How to Overcome Ultra-Independence and Receive Love and Support

“Ultra-independence is a coping mechanism we develop when we’ve learned it’s not safe to trust love or when we are terrified to lose ourselves in another. We aren’t meant to go it alone. We are wounded in relationship and we heal in relationship.” ~Rising Woman Do you feel like you have to do everything on…

How Being the Strong One in My Family Became a Trap

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” ~Ernest Hemingway My grandmother had just died. My sister and I had come from the room where her body still lay, and we were standing in the elevator in silence when the doors slid closed. My sister looked at me and said,…

How I Lost Myself in a Controlling Friendship and What I Know Now

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ~Søren Kierkegaard I didn’t lose her all at once. I lost myself first—slowly, quietly, in the way that only happens when someone you trust makes you doubt everything you think and feel. She was magnetic when I met her. Warm, intense, the kind…

How to Feel Safe When Panic Feels Dangerous

“Anxiety isn’t you. It’s something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.” ~James Clear Years ago, I had a panic attack while driving across a bridge, and I thought I might die that day. Suddenly my heart started pounding. My breath became shallow and tight. My chest felt…

Lessons from Slowing Down: What My Body Needed to Feel Better

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~Jim Rohn I used to think tiredness was a personality trait. I was the person who could work fourteen hours, sleep five, and do it again. I wore my exhaustion like armor. It proved I was serious. It proved I was dedicated. It…

Baby teeth read like tree rings paint a picture of toxins in early life

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York offers a striking insight into how the environments we are born into can quietly shape our brains years later. By analyzing naturally shed baby teeth, the ones tucked under pillows for the tooth fairy, researchers have reconstructed a detailed timeline…

Kids are vaping. The media shock that made them stop

On one side: aggressive anti-vaping campaigns from the FDA, Truth Initiative, and state programs, backed by over $100 million in annual spending. On the other: a public health crisis. Screenshot The post Kids are vaping. The media shock that made them stop appeared first on Green Prophet. A Tesla Semi. The new lithium discovery might…

Paris Modest Fashion Week offers style without exposure for Muslims

France is home to around 5 to 7.5 million Muslims according to estimates, and Özlem Şahin, head of the organization behind Modest Fashion Week, has described Paris as “one of the leading modest fashion capitals in Europe”. The post Paris Modest Fashion Week offers style without exposure for Muslims appeared first on Green Prophet. A…

Plants can eat dust and grow – should we stop dusting them?

Dusty plants? Let them eat their hearts out. The post Plants can eat dust and grow – should we stop dusting them? appeared first on Green Prophet. A Tesla Semi. The new lithium discovery might erase China from the lithium/energy landscape A vast and largely untapped lithium reserve may be hiding beneath one of North…

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