by gemma | Sep 15, 2012 | beloved & praised, gems & precious bits, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, relationships & sex, thoughts & musings
Rewind seven years :: I began to see how much my life was governed by fear. The whole show—cast, crew, & stage—was built upon the perilous foundation of fear. I thought it all had to be destroyed. So that’s what I did. Relationships ended, pets were adopted,...
by gemma | Jun 29, 2012 | beloved & praised, health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Last week, I chatted about the six strategies I use daily to help me from slipping into the darkness of mental health struggles. I actually use twelve strategies daily (I try, anyway). Here are the other six :: Media. I am super strict with the type of media I expose...
by gemma | Jun 2, 2012 | beloved & praised, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Your brain is continually looking for bad news and for scary situations. As soon as it finds the scariest news, it fixates on it and shoots that information into memory storage. Later, it reactivates that information as soon as a similar situation or signal arises....
by gemma | Mar 21, 2012 | beloved & praised, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Throughout our lives, we receive so many messages about how we ‘should’ be living our lives and what the ‘right’ goals and dreams are. The well-intentioned expectations of others can muddy our truth and cause us to lose our direction and...
by gemma | Mar 2, 2012 | beloved & praised, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
In life there are some moments that have the potential to change everything. One of my moments came when I was twenty-four, deeply depressed, highly medicated, sitting in my bathtub taking gulps of red wine between sobs of heart-breaking sorrow. Messy. When I was in...
