Mind Align Counseling

08/05/2024

We all have a bag.
We all pack differently.
Some of us are traveling light.
Some of us are secret hoarders who've never parted with a memory in our lives. I think we are all called to figure out how to carry our bag to the best of our ability, how to unpack it, and how to face the mess. I think part of growing up is learning how to sit down the floor with all your things and figuring out what to take with you and what to leave behind.

—Hannah Brencher / Power of Word
🎨Samantha Jordaan

08/04/2024

“I'm just quiet, but I notice everything. As a keen observer, I notice patterns of inconsistencies, deception, and people who put on a persona that isn't theirs just to fit in, and as I progressed through life, I learned not to question people who are unwilling to compromise with the rules of who l want to be with in my circle. I am not questioning people anymore whether they stay or go. I’m done with the era of forcing people to maintain connections, sustaining conversations, and blend into friendships where I feel l don't belong. This is me slowly realizing things and I won't apologize for being that way.”

— Balt Rodriguez

[ Art • “The Last Dove” by Garis Edelweiss ]

08/02/2024

07/21/2024

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
"Because someone bumped into me!!!"
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.