“We often block our own blessings because we don’t feel inherently good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, or worthy enough. But you’re worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.”...

‘Morning Meditation: Though all his life a fool associates with a wise person, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the soup.’ The Dhammapada

Anyone who knows me well knows that I battled with food and my body for years. I struggled with bulimia for over a decade, starting when I was twelve. My eating disorder was in many ways a coping mechanism in response to trauma, but early programming around food...

‘Buddha is the teacher who uses no words.’ Zen Graffiti

The sword which he holds in his right hand shows that he cuts off all illusionary ideas

“Sit with it. Instead of drinking it away, smoking it away, sleeping it away, eating it away, or running from it. Just sit with it. Healing happens by feeling.” ~Unknown I had no idea I had so many feelings until four years ago. I became sober and immediately started...

‘No Dukkha no awakening.’ Zen Graffiti

‘The Buddha’s teaching is not complicated, but it is radical. It asks us to turn away from the constant pursuit of pleasure, power, and identity, and to rest in the reality of the present. It asks us to trust in the simplicity of awareness?’ Everyday Buddhism

‘When the mind is serene, Sleep comes easily, No bad dreams occur, One wakes happily.’ The Buddha