Tag: bitterness

• Monday Mirror #4: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness

  

  “Anything you can’t say thank you for is baggage.” -Joe Demartini For today’s installment of Monday Mirror: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness, I want us to bring to light some of the residual energy and emotion that most of us suppress in an effort to protect ourselves from future hurt or trauma. In a previous…

  Daniel Fortune

  October 24, 2022

  Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Morning Mirror: Personal Reflections that Increase Self-Awareness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Self-Awareness

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• Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings

  

  In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…

  Daniel Fortune

  September 20, 2022

  Emotional Abstraction, Emotional Alchemy, Exposure Therapy, Inversion Thinking

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