Category: Inspirations
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🧧 What the Color Red Taught Me About Starting Over
The first thing you notice during Lunar New Year isn’t the food.It isn’t the fireworks.It isn’t even the laughter. It’s red. Red lanterns swaying from doorways.Red envelopes pressed into waiting hands.Red paper cuttings glowing against windows.Red banners brushed in gold, blessing the year ahead. Red everywhere. When I was younger, I once asked why everything…
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What I learned from a Marshmallow…
In my twenties, I believed finding love required effort, creativity, and maybe a little desperation.So I tried everything — bars, speed dating, reality TV auditions… even marshmallows with my phone number tucked inside. What I didn’t realize then was that the greatest lesson wouldn’t be about finding someone else — it would be about finding…
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The Quiet Power of Showing Up on an Ordinary Day
Most transformations don’t announce themselves. They don’t arrive with fireworks or before-and-after photos. They don’t wait for Mondays, new years, or perfectly timed breakthroughs. Most of them happen on ordinary days—the kind you almost don’t notice while you’re living them. The days where nothing remarkable happens… except that you show up anyway. Ordinary Days Don’t…
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A New Year, A Lighter Heart: Learning to Let Go
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu Clarity Cookie: The pain of the slap was still present. It was a rainy day, the 7th anniversary of her mother’s death in September. My friend Grace had decided to forgive her sister for all she’d done wrong…
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Meet Gratitude’s Twin Sister, “Attitude!”
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. ~ Maya Angelou At times, life may seem daunting, causing us to complain about our circumstances. Certain situations are beyond our control- illness, the weather, the actions of others, situations at work or school, devastating events like earthquakes, 9/11 or…
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The People Who Carry My Heart
Family is such a simple word, but somehow it holds the weight of our entire lives. It’s the laughter that fills the house on holidays, the quiet understanding in the middle of chaos, the familiar faces that remind us we’re never walking this path alone. For me, family is the thread that stitches my life…
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The Quiet Compass: Learning to Trust Your Intuition
There’s a voice inside of you that doesn’t shout. It doesn’t demand, it doesn’t beg for your attention the way fear often does. Instead, it whispers. It nudges. It shows up as a feeling in your chest, a knowing in your gut, or a gentle pull that you can’t quite explain. This voice is called…
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The Courage of Authenticity: How Embracing Your True Self Leads to Freedom
There’s a quiet kind of bravery that doesn’t always get celebrated in the world we live in. It’s not the spotlight moments, not the applause-worthy milestones, not the neatly packaged “success stories.” No—this bravery is softer, subtler, and far more radical. It’s the courage of authenticity. To be authentic is to stand before the world…
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Hope as a Daily Practice
Hope is not always the grand, sweeping light we imagine. It is rarely fireworks, rarely the kind of brilliance that blinds us in awe. More often, it is a quiet ember—a small flame, fragile yet enduring, flickering in the unseen corners of our days. It is the kind of light that doesn’t shout but whispers,…
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