10 Affirmations for Insecurity (That Don’t Feel Like Lying to Yourself)

These affirmations don’t include statements easily disproven by critical self talk. Building confidence requires belief, and repeating a phrase I don’t believe doesn’t help me. Facts which are difficult to argue with are more productive. Here are ten affirmations I’ve written and use to cope with deep insecurity: I’m experiencing life, my own individual life, …

Time and I

This week is a difficult time for me but I’m appreciative of how much I’ve grown in a year. I’ve graduated from the person I used to be. Though I remain an anxious person, I’m more emotionally stable even when I’m not— I can move on, cope, gain control over myself from the hands of …

Why I Sketch

What we see and experience is a powerful influence on our being. Our sensory input designs our reality. Receptors take external stimuli and curate logical imagery. Sketching, putting lines on paper, is a way we can once more replicate reality having passed into us and then out through us. When drawing studies of the world …

10 Affirmations for Productivity

I deserve to feel pride for achieving any task regardless if it feels like an insignificant one, and I am proud of myself. If I cannot accomplish a task or use my time in a way I deem productive, I will not shame myself and I will be proud that I do not need to …

10 Affirmations Relating to Home

I have the power express discomfort, assert boundaries, and ask for help. I trust the universe to point me in the direction of home, and when I find it, I will recognize it. I trust myself to keep myself safe. I am working every day to create a comfortable, enriching, and secure home for myself. …

Temperance and Time

Each present moment is in the past-- the next one to pass is the future, a chance to decide it. The flow of time means 'now' is a temperance. It's a balance of accepting that what has just happened and occurred long in the past both cannot be changed, but the future is simultaneous and …

Stand Tall

Respect yourself and others, stand tall. Others will misconstrue these values as being combative purely by nature of how radical it is to love yourself, to believe in yourself. No one expects someone to stick to what they value. Do no wrong to others but don’t accept the wrong they do to you.  We all …

Xanthosis is Testing My Goals

Alchemy and its many forms have been a passion of mine since childhood. Some of you may know of psycho-spiritual or philosophical alchemy. These meditations and changes are a part of an entire lifestyle supporting growth and healing. I’ve spent the last half decade cycling through the phases of darkness and light, destruction and reconstruction, …

The Faint Young Sun Paradox

In early times there wasn’t as much light output as we experience today. As with the earth's first days, we might look at our own life and remember when the sun never seemed to shine brightly upon us. These are cold memories but somehow not frozen, neither in substance nor in time. Reality’s laws are …

My Experience with Cleanliness

I’m a disorganized person, a partially recovered hoarder, and I’m disabled. This adds up to some very unsavoury environments I’ve created around myself but in recent years I’ve made progress in leaps and bounds. Still, my apartment is rarely clean and when it is, it’s often short lived. But no longer am I sleeping on …