Karen Salmansohn
Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.Collection: Anger
It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.Collection: Happiness
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.Collection: Time
In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.Collection: Anger
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!Collection: Dating
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.Collection: Beauty
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.Collection: Relationship
A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.Collection: Morning
You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.Collection: Love
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.Collection: Life
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.Collection: Courage
Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.Collection: Anger
Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.Collection: Forgiveness
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.Collection: Happiness
If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.Collection: Anger
The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.Collection: Success
In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.Collection: Death
You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.Collection: Pain
The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.Collection: Exit
The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.Collection: Live Life
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.Collection: Heart
What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.Collection: Thinking
You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.Collection: Life
Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.Collection: Love
Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.Collection: Pain
What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?Collection: Change
Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.Collection: Philosophical
Your mission: Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear.Collection: Regret
You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.Collection: Inspirational
Live now. Procrastinate later.Collection: Motivation
Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.Collection: Writing
Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.Collection: Love
What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.Collection: Motivational
The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.Collection: Jobs
Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.Collection: Happiness
Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.Collection: Letting Go
Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.Collection: Wisdom
It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.Collection: Turns