?…I?ve finally learned to greet anxiety with gratitude, because it is not my enemy but my teacher. And it?s taught me one of the greatest lessons of all: When faced with a problem, you can choose to avoid it, you can walk around it, and you can pretend that it doesn?t exist, but you will repeatedly run into its pain until you open your heart to its purpose.? Ashley Melillo, Blissful Basil
It?s no secret I?m a quote fan (and I love to include one in each issue of In the Glow), but lately I?ve been looking to them more and more for inspiration. I don?t know if it?s the dreary, sunless winter days of late or simply the phase that I seem to be in, but I?m craving new perspectives, some external sources of wisdom to reframe my thought patterns. The above quote from Ashley really spoke to me, so I thought I?d share it with you today! I?ve been talking a lot with friends lately about how labels?both those we are given and those we give ourselves?can hold us back. We all have them, don?t we" Ways of thinking about ourselves can become an invisible boundary (conscious or subconscious) we never attempt to grow beyond because we actually believe that we can’t. It?s when you tell yourself NOPE before even giving yourself a chance. It?s a self-imposed personal growth ceiling. It?s thinking, I?m too this, or not enough that. Or how about, I don?t have that skill set; I?m not that type of person. Before long, a single label can start to represent our whole selves, rathe...