self help

Self help, because you are your greatest asset.

Why The True Peacemakers Usually Fail
Have you ever looked at a situation and asked... Why can't we all just get along? Wouldn't it be easier... If we all just worked together?
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)18 days ago in Motivation
No One Is Coming to Save You — And That’s Where Your Strength Begins. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
There is a moment in adulthood that does not arrive dramatically. No announcement. No crisis soundtrack. No clear turning point.
By Chilam Wong18 days ago in Motivation
Wicked and the Reality of Disability
The Wicked films arrived wrapped in spectacle. Audiences expected soaring vocals, dazzling visuals, and the familiar emotional weight of a beloved musical brought to life. Few viewers expected to encounter one of Hollywood’s most meaningful recent contributions to disability representation.
By Millie Hardy-Sims19 days ago in Motivation
Proving You’re Disabled Enough
The hardest part of applying for disability benefits was not the paperwork. It was the translation. A life quietly reshaped by illness had to be reduced to tick boxes, descriptors, and carefully worded answers. Pain had to become evidence. Fatigue had to become measurable. Personal limitation had to be presented as a case strong enough to be believed.
By Millie Hardy-Sims19 days ago in Motivation
Disabled, but Not in the RIGHT Way
When I was awarded Personal Independence Payment, it wasn’t for the reason I expected. It wasn’t for the fatigue that makes standing unpredictable.
By Millie Hardy-Sims19 days ago in Motivation
Internalised Ableism
The question didn’t arrive all at once. It appeared slowly, quietly, in moments I didn’t expect. When I used my walking stick on a day I could technically manage without it. When I parked in a disabled space and stepped out of the car without limping. When I told someone about my diagnosis and watched their eyes search my body for confirmation.
By Millie Hardy-Sims19 days ago in Motivation
Am I Disabled Enough?
The hardest part of using my disabled parking badge isn’t the walking. It’s the watching. The moment I step out of the car, I feel it. The pause. The glance. The subtle double-take as someone tries to reconcile what they see with what they believe disability should look like. Their eyes flick from my face to the badge, then back again, searching for evidence that justifies my presence.
By Millie Hardy-Sims19 days ago in Motivation
SACRED CORE ROOTS
Love demonstrates endless compassion despite imperfections, flaws, or mistakes. Love does not disappear, it expands at an exponential rate, as it demonstrates compassionate perseverance, consistency, strength, courage, and clarity beyond the illusionary, obscure, or misaligned notions of control or fear. It requires great courage to begin again despite the coldness within one’s heart. Love can restore the soul to a state of peace, beyond the endurance of ruthless destruction inflicted upon it. Silence reveals the truth within time of one’s limitations, by uncovering or revealing one’s repetitive nature, conditioned adopted programs, or reinforced notions, beliefs, or stories, which are transfixed or etched within the mind, as familiar pain appears and feels safer than progressive change. Truth, hidden motives, and betrayal, causes systematic irreversible internal pain. The soul retains the feeling or weight of the situation. Wounds can be endured and heal within the context of time, but the damage felt by the spoken word or the physical act of a stroke of a pen, echoes beyond space and time. Discipline and focus enables self-mastery and awakening. One must seek relationships that are not savage in nature. Pillaging, using, or depriving another’s soul for gain, demonstrates a relentless need to inflict pain onto others in a destructive manner. Pain projected is often unconscious, subconscious, or conscious pain felt or sustained within. Comparison is the thief of joy, remaining cruel, miserable, jealous, or arrogant deprives the soul of true nurturance and the attainment of greater peace. To embody restorative peace, one must seek to live gently, quietly, humbly, and operate with virtue and ethical discernment, with morality and justice in mind. Love is a dichotomous balance and a juxtaposition of beauty and pain, as it enables the soul to feel every spectrum of emotion within every crevice, facet, and corner of one’s being, as true compassionate empathetic love does not disappear it transcends, heals, and matures within time.
By ELISABETH BABARCI 19 days ago in Motivation
The Hidden Cost of Being the Strong One
There’s a certain role you fall into without really choosing it. You become the strong one. The person who handles things before they become problems.
By shikema hines19 days ago in Motivation
You Don't Need to Be Humble About Your Dreams
Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that dreaming big should be softened. We learned to say, “It’s just a little idea.”
By Stacy Valentine19 days ago in Motivation
Just Believe
There are moments in life when the path ahead disappears. The waves rise. The noise grows louder. Fear whispers that you should turn back. Logic tells you that it cannot be done. And yet, somewhere deep inside, a quiet voice says two simple words: Just believe.
By USA daily update 19 days ago in Motivation
Lessons in the Storm
Life has a strange way of teaching us. We make plans, set goals, and imagine a smooth road ahead. But then, without warning, a storm arrives. A job is lost. A relationship ends. A dream collapses. In those painful and confusing moments, we often ask, “Why is this happening to me?” What we don’t realize at first is that the situation itself is becoming our greatest teacher.
By Active USA 19 days ago in Motivation