If you don’t heal what hurt you, you will bleed on people who didn’t cut you.

Your turn…how will you rise from your ashes? Putting yourself in the best mental place you can be every day, helps you overcome feelings of discouragement or wanting to give up. The endorphins produced by exercise reduces stress and anxiety, helps you sleep better, improves cognitive function and overall lifts your mood. Whether it’s walking out in nature or lifting weights, nothing restores my soul and “resets” my mind like physically doing something. You deserve to treat yourself well.ĥ.) Exercise. Experience the emotions, then let them go and practice self-care. It’s okay to fall in the water and cry, just don’t stay there. These can be hard to deal with, so be gentle with yourself. We are going to experience heartbreak, loss and setbacks. The only thing you should ever compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday.Ĥ.) Be easy on yourself. It’s an unfair comparison, because each are different. Comparing yourself to others, is like comparing apples to oranges. You are on your own unique path that is for you and you alone. If it doesn’t work, you’ve just learned something and it’s just a data point.ģ.) Don’t compare yourself to others or their journeys. If something doesn’t work, that’s okay, keep going and try something else. Why are you doing this? What are your reasons? When you understand the why, the how becomes a lot easier. It’s not from thinking about it, it’s from doing something about it.Ģ.) Know your “why”. And that is why we begin to feel inspired. We tend to wait until we feel like we are in the right mood to feel inspired, but the reality is, action causes us to feel like we are doing something towards our goals. So, when you feel like giving up, remember these things:ġ.) Motivation does not come from a feeling it comes from action. And you will be reborn again, beautiful and majestic. What may feel like the end of the world, may be a necessary step in our journey for our next chapter. We have to go through the darkness to get to the light. Sometimes our lives have to completely fall apart, so we can rebuild it, stronger than it’s ever been.

What looks like death and destruction to someone who doesn’t know the phoenix, is actually renewal, rebirth and new beginnings. The end is never the end for this amazing bird.

The phoenix symbolizes rebirth and renewal. He turns to ashes, then rises again, reborn. The phoenix builds his own funeral nest, and when it is time, he lights himself on fire with a single clap of his wings. With brilliant hues of reds, yellows and purples, it associated with sun and fire.

In mythology, the phoenix is a large and radiant bird with beautiful plumage and magical capabilities.

A phoenix first must burn