emotional growth – Slanted Spines

I Fuel the Great Machine: Part VIII

August 16, 2019September 9, 2019Posted in I Fuel the Great MachineTagged creative writing, dystopian, emotional growth, peace, sci-fi, science fiction, short story, space, Story, writing3 Comments

(Read parts one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven!)

After breaking several of the Great Slantia’s laws and abandoning a lifetime dedicated to its success by allowing an enemy of the state to kidnap her by boarding a space ship and traveling to a secret rebel base satellite located in the shadow of the moon, Agnes, our formerly unsuspecting retiree protagonist, stood at the door which led to her twin sister, whom she had no idea existed until earlier that day. And she didn’t quite know how she felt about this. Continue reading “I Fuel the Great Machine: Part VIII” →

Growing the Right Attitude

April 26, 2019April 24, 2019Posted in Mindful LivingTagged attitude, emotional growth, encouragement, inspiration, Mindful Living, mindful thinking, positive thinking, positivity, Restaurant, Self-Help, wisdomLeave a comment

How do you feel when one of your co-workers is in a bad mood? How does that one person’s negative attitude affect the social environment?

Does their attitude feel almost contagious? Continue reading “Growing the Right Attitude” →

A Vision of Self-Love

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019Posted in Mindful LivingTagged attitude, emotional growth, encouragement, good vibes, inspiration, inspirational, love yourself, Mindful Living, mindful thinking, motivation, positive thinking, positivity, Self-Help, self-love, writingLeave a comment

How do you love yourself?

This question might seem familiar. Last year, I wrote an article called For the Love of You, which began with the question, “Do you love yourself?” I wrote about the importance of self-love and how it can change your life to break the internal cycle of self-hatred that we learn to perpetuate. If you haven’t read it, or if you haven’t revisited it since I posted it, I would encourage you to read through it again.

It’s easy to acknowledge, “I should love myself,” but it’s not at all easy to actually start taking the steps towards loving yourself. It’s the how that’s the challenge; when we spend so much of our life forming the habit of self-hatred, it takes a lot of strength and courage to re-route those hard-worn paths in our mind. Continue reading “A Vision of Self-Love” →

The Art of Not Reacting

September 21, 2018February 22, 2019Posted in Mindful LivingTagged emotional growth, encouragement, Mindful Living, mindful thinking, motivation, Self-HelpLeave a comment

When I perceived a customer being rude to me at work, I used to immediately rant to my co-workers about the alleged wrongdoer. “All I asked them was ‘how’s your day?’ and they gave me such an annoyed look and just replied, ‘Coffee.’ Sorry to bother you by doing my job at the restaurant you just voluntarily walked into!” Sometimes, the customer continued to be rude, and it was a long saga of dealing with them time and time again throughout their dining experience. Other times, though–and what turned out to be most times–, really nothing else “bad” would happen that would justify venting about; maybe the customer would be short with me again, but I’d be foolish to expect–at this point–that every single person in the world is over the top with niceties, and to continue to get bent out of shape over meaningless interactions.

Continue reading “The Art of Not Reacting” →