For me, it's not about starting a complete overhaul of my lifestyle but about continuing to follow the intentions I set the year before, honoring the changes I made throughout the year, and letting go of what no longer is serving me. All with the understanding that real change doesn't happen over night and that it requires small, intentional steps.
Tag: mental-health
Teatime with Tonya: Trusting Your Gut
I was bold and caring in my pursuit of my dreams, because my gut was telling me that it was the right move. When I'm faced with other decisions in my life, big or small, I've found that when I follow that strong, gut feeling of confidence and clarity it has led me down the right path most of the time.
Forbidden Friendship
I realized that if I want to be in better romantic relationships with men, I needed to address how I showed up in my friendships with them too. My hope is that the deeper and wider my friendships go, then the deeper and wider my friend's friendships will go, and so on. We can continue to heal the pain and hurt we've inherited from previous generations that doesn't serve us anymore.
Teatime with Tonya: Beauty Standards
When we know ourselves and are comfortable in the body, clothes, and image we have of ourselves, we need and seek less validation. While compliments are still nice to receive, we won’t need them to affirm what we already know to be true about ourselves.
Teatime with Tonya: Staying Hopeful (or Not) with Modern Dating
I don't think I can provide a concrete hopeful method to the madness, but I will try to share why I haven't completely given up on dating (yet).
...But Not With Haste 