Elephant Journal

06/06/2025

When Narcissists Attack

06/06/2025

"Have you ever caught yourself ‘listening’ to someone and wishing they would just get to the point because you have something really important to say?"

One of the most powerful ways to distinguish ourselves as compassionate people is working to undo this knee-jerk style of interaction in ourselves.

06/06/2025

Selling my home sweet home after 19 years.

06/06/2025

"First dates are thin, eager, weak, sweet, young...full of real but ephemeral love. The tired heart warms again and, childlike, a naive hope of love buds up.⠀

Second dates are a time to talk, a time to get to know—a time to see if the avocado soaked in clean water in a jam jar set on only two toothpicks in the warm sun will sprout. You have to wait two weeks, sometimes." ~ , ⠀

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06/06/2025

Read this Before any First Date: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/10/read-this-before-any-first-date/

06/05/2025

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06/05/2025

"A healer who had scanned my body three years into PTSD told me I was carrying too much that was already dead. I felt that way—I was an encyclopedia of grief."

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06/05/2025

"When I ignore my soul’s whispers, I disconnect from my true self. When I listen—really listen—I remember how to return to wholeness."

It’s hard to stay rooted in peace when the world feels like it’s spinning in chaos. I feel it in my body. It’s a kind of spiritual fatigue. A quiet ache in my chest, a heaviness in my bones,

06/05/2025

The Boulder assailant was prevented from getting a gun, which he wanted, by gun laws. And he needed mental healthcare. Beyond that:

There is a solution to gun violence. It's remarkably simple. It's commonsense. It's here. She gets it: He is a terrorist. He is a criminal. He is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless...

06/05/2025

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06/05/2025

Dreams sort the seeds of our experiences and can make the unconscious conscious. They are a source of guidance, even if we don’t remember all the details in our waking hours.

In this dream, I kept going for weekends at the cottage as usual, knowing that it was no longer ours, a little bit anxious that we’d get caught, but by some luck, the

06/05/2025

"The years trickle by, like a quiet spring running just under the earth beneath our feet. We know it’s there, but we can’t hear it over our chatter and drama and loud thoughts and challenges and victories and defeats of the day." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

I'm 50, which might be the peak age, if you're healthy and take care of yourself, for feeling like you're not getting older. For feeling like time passing is a rather small thing, a quiet thing, a sub...