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Practical insights on complex spiritual topics and psychological tidbits to guide you as you step into your truest self and create a life that lights you (and the world) up.


Outrage as Entertainment: Why we’re addicted to anger

In this modern world of endless social media scrolling and heightened divisions, do you ever find yourself looking for something to be angry about? Perhaps you click into Twitter with the intention of seeing what the "other side" has to say fully expecting to get riled up about it? If so, you're not alone. Many of us have found ourselves caught in this "outrage as entertainment" cycle. Are we addicted to outrage? What purpose does outrage serve? Is this type of morally cloaked anger prosocial or are we merely feeding into a self-serving neurobiological brain loop when we go looking for injustices? What biases underpin our perceptions? And what can we do to step out of the outrage cycle and into empathic, unifying awareness?

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Limiting Beliefs, Outer Purpose Ashley Melillo Limiting Beliefs, Outer Purpose Ashley Melillo

Fear-apy: Face Your Fears, Find Your Purpose

Fear-apy is a simple and actionable practice to take small, daily steps to break through limiting fears and realign with your purpose. Limiting fears are the kind of fears that keep your life or career smaller than you'd like it be... they limit and restrict your soul's expansiveness. Thus, by conquering these fears, your life grows fuller, your soul expands, and that internal spark ignites.

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Law of Attraction, Manifestation Ashley Melillo Law of Attraction, Manifestation Ashley Melillo

Quantum Manifestation: Co-Create a Life You Love with the Power of the Quantum Field

In this article, we take a broader, more holistic look at manifestation. We also dig below the surface to examine the interplay between quantum mechanics and manifestation, and how to create a signal so clear, so concise that it reaches into the quantum field and pulls our desires into physical reality before our eyes.

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Using Emotional Triggers as a Roadmap to Healing

Triggers have gotten a bad rap in recent times. We're terrified of being triggered and we're scared of triggering others. We tiptoe across eggshells in our interactions. In return, we expect others to do the same. To mind themselves to avoid ruffling our feathers or crushing those fragile eggshells that surround our deepest wounds. In this article we’ll flip this perception—the one that vilifies triggers—on its head. We'll explore why welcoming emotional triggers is a necessary step in the process of deep healing. And how the things and people that trigger us serve as messengers and as tour guides, leading us to the areas that need to be healed.

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Life on Autopilot: Are You Trapped in the Matrix?

Have you ever felt like you're moving through life in a haze of repetition? Life becomes a blur of chores, to-do's, monotonous habits… eat, complete daily duties, sleep, repeat. You're caught in the moment and yet you're numb to its presence. While there's comfort in routine, your soul craves something more. But you're so caught up in reacting to life that it feels like you're not really living it. This is life on autopilot.

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Personal Empowerment, Self-Reclamation Ashley Melillo Personal Empowerment, Self-Reclamation Ashley Melillo

Bring the True You to the Surface: 10 Ways to Reclaim the Hidden Aspects of Yourself

We give aspects of ourselves away or hide them away for many reasons—others' expectations, traumatic experiences, societal or cultural expectations, etc. To harness our authentic power, we must work to reclaim these lost aspects of self. Read on to find out how to reclaim missing aspects of yourself.

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Releasing Toxic Otherness

Toxic otherness turns others into enemies. This ego- and mind-derived phenomenon creates and sustains a war—real or imagined—between the perceived self and the perceived other. Keep reading to find out what toxic otherness looks like and how to dismantle its presence in your life.

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The 3 Mirrors of Perception

If you’ve heard people say things like “If you don’t like your life, look at yourself because your life is just showing you who you are,” and have felt dissatisfied with this shame-inducing explanation, keep reading. There’s a whole lot more to the concept of ‘spiritual mirrors’ than this one limiting idea.

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