BREATHE N BOUNCE

  Being rejected is probably one of the worst feelings in the world. When you are rejected by someone, it brings a lot of things up in your mind, and it's nothing good. There's a pain and suffering that comes with not being wanted or not being recognized, and then the questions start to appear. You find yourself asking if you're good enough for anybody. If anyone likes you. You start thinking, what can I do to change myself so people will like me and people will accept me? Sometimes you may go as far as to get plastic surgery done on yourself, or you might empty out your bank account to win favors with certain people. The worst is when it's your own family that makes you feel that way. If there's someone who has been like me growing up, the only way that I got people to notice me was I acted really obnoxious. And then it just became a part of who I am. We all want to be seen and we all want to be accepted. We all want love in our lives. It is a need, because goi...

Stop Performing Your Synonym-Heavy, Soul-Aligned Wellness Fantasy: Why Authenticity Is the Only Real Trend Let’s be completely honest for a second: this last month has been a real kick in the teeth. Between managing everyday burnout, listening to people drone on about "aligning with your highest vibrational frequencies," and trying not to throw my phone against the drywall every time I see another perfectly filtered turmeric latte, I’m exhausted. Welcome to our August series, which corporate or whatever clever branding machine decided to call "Align with Your Soul and Your Wallet" : though honestly, let’s just call it what it is: a cynical look at how we’ve managed to slap a luxury price tag on feeling like garbage and calling it enlightenment. Who comes up with these things? Is there a way out, or are we all just trapped in an endless loop of buying $128 bamboo leggings so we can achieve inner peace while our bank accounts scream in agony? It’s such a shitty pl...

 We have things happen to us and we can't explain them.  We tried to do everything right and stay on the path.  Yet, sometimes things don't work out and we lose our way.  We then go back to the drawing board and try to figure out how to keep things in our life that may not belong anymore or don't serve us.  What will happen if we do just that? How scary is it to just trust the universe and move forward in a completely opposite direction? MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE

  We wander around trying to find answers all the time, but sometimes in life maybe we just ask the wrong questions. Maybe it's not even a matter of asking the wrong questions — maybe it's that we don't ask questions because we're just so full of answers. We are so infested with our own opinions of ourselves, the poor self-talk, the excuse-making, all the other places that we go to distract us from who we actually are. So who are we? The truth is we really don't know unless we really dig in to find out. It comes from facing up to all the crazy shit you did as a kid and the mistakes you made as an adult. It comes from a place of knowing that your ego distracted you from the truth that was actually happening. It comes from a place of understanding that we are just here, and everything else is fed to us by our brain. And when we are constantly being fed by our brain, being supplemented by lots of social media and advertisements trying to tell you that you're no...