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Wellness & Mental Health

How To Start Your Healing Era

Have you ever wondered how to start your healing era? I think everyone should have one, every now and then. You can’t girlboss your way to your dreams without stopping to smell the flowers, otherwise you’ll just end up burnt out.

We’re taught to hustle and grind, to chase our dreams, to keep running on the hamster wheel of the corporate world, or some other arbitrary goal. As valid as those goals are, life takes its toll and it’s important to take inventory of all that we have achieved, lick our wounds, and offer ourselves the grace of gathering our strength again.

Much like nature, we undergo seasons of growth, of prosperity, of loss, and of hibernation. Many underestimate the importance of this hibernation, this cocoon phase. But it is, in fact, where the magical transformation happens!

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Lumen's Diary

Lumen’s Diary: New Moon in Scorpio

Much like the moon, I have seasons of coming and going, waxing and waning. Of being bright and radiant, and then going completely and utterly dark. Sometimes it’s necessary — this surrendering into your own

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Lumen's Diary

Lumen’s Diary: Darling, It Gets Better

I hope my story inspires you to not give up on yourself. Wherever you may be in life, whatever phase or age, it’s always worth it to start loving yourself, to start believing in yourself. I’m not saying it’s easy or fast. After all, it took me 10 years to get here. But you can make this shift in mindset, energy and confidence in 1 year if you really want, and you’re brave enough to choose yourself and decide that you deserve better. You can learn from my mistakes and make the change now, instead of later.

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Essays

The Fragile Balance Between Friendship and Mental Health

When I first started my blog, I knew that I wanted to eventually tackle hard-hitting questions and themes that really delve into the vulnerabilities of our human nature: the light, the darkness, and all the grey areas inbetween. Because we hold not just one phase of the moon in our multiplicity, we carry all of them within us, which is what gives us depth and a true radiance when we honor all facets of our identity…

One of these grey areas is the fine line between being a good friend, and being a good friend to yourself by protecting your mental health…

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My Journey of Healing: How Selflove & Selfcare Changed My Life

Everybody’s journey of self-love is different, but the first step is to begin. And as someone who’s been there, struggling by anxiety and lacking security in my identity, I can safely say it gets better. Self love changes everything. Everything, in the best ways. It changes how you view yourself and by extension it changes how you view life and the act of living. And when you know you deserve the world you will stop tolerating those who believe you deserve anything less.

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Lumen's Diary

How To Get Over a Break Up: A Guide For Healing

This is going to be a lengthy, messy and raw one. This is me saying you’re not alone, you do deserve to be in a happy and healthy relationship, and yes, it gets better. Everybody goes through this. This is a step by step guide that takes you by the hand on how to get over a break up, and which you can refer to again and again, as many times as you need.

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Selfcare & Selflove

This is what happens when you practice self love daily

Self hate is out, self love is in. Across the world and the internet, self-deprecation, denial, rejection… is no longer romanticized or even common. People are beginning to realize the true revolution of accepting themselves.

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Relationships

How do you know you’ve found the one?

To all the romantics and beyond, so many people wonder if the person they’re with is the right one. If there is anything better waiting out there, how to fix and mend the other, how

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Glow Up

The stages of living authentically

Through all the times in my life where I struggled with long periods of anxiety, depression or just the sort of sadness where it’s like the world has been switched off in a wash of

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8 things that encourage self-love in your journey of healing

Meditation. Physical self-care, haircare, skincare. Spoiling yourself – whatever way this looks for you! Good, wholesome food – your body will feel stronger, happier, more efficient and focused. Journaling or any form of introspection. Daily

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