“I’m willing to be unpopular,” writes Rhina Ju, as she recounts the first year of her life changing experiment. When I read that sentence, something exploded inside of me. Her words gave voice to a thing that has been lodged inside of me for months.…
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Poetry Friday: Stations | Audre Lorde
Read moreStations | Audre Lorde Some women love to wait for life for a ring in the June light for a touch of the sun to heal them for another woman’s voice to make them whole to untie their hands put words in their mouths form…
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Choose Peace this Holiday Season
Read moreRecently I asked my Twitter and Facebook communities for tips on Surviving the Holiday Madness. Along with their tips, many people told me why the the holidays cause them stress. Manu said that he gets hung up on thinking about gifts. To combat this, he…
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SWAN: Three Happy Things
Read moreSWAN (Stop Wasting Away Now) is a weekly dose of inspiration from me to you. Each week I will make a short video post about something on my mind. The posts will be unscripted & shot straight from my soul. Stop wasting away now, life’s…
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No Alcohol November: The Results
Read moreLast month, I embarked on a No Alcohol November Challenge. My reasons for starting the challenge were not perfectly clear. I said that I wanted to experience all of the things that people report after giving up alcohol—optimized health, weight loss, increased focus, motivation, and…
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Beat Anxiety, Overcome Depression: The Book
Read moreDear Friends, I’ve been blogging for three years now. Creating this site—evolutionyou.net—has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Although I have made no money through this venture, I’ve been been paid thousands of times over through the kind words & gratitude…
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Poetry Friday: A Brief for the Defense | Jack Gilbert
Read morephoto taken with instagram A Brief for the Defense | Jack Gilbert Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise the mornings…