Faith and spirituality

Once upon a time…

Hello my loves! I am back on the blog. 🙂 I am bursting with excitement to share beautiful insights and hang out with you in this space online. I will be exploring in the next few posts one of my all-time favorite shows, Once upon a time, which I recently discovered. The first 3 seasons were absolutely amazing in their development. The writers have done an incredible job at weaving simple stories into more complex dichotomies and picturing the inner battle between good and evil inside these characters.

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Relationships

Relationship SERIES: How to have a thriving and peaceful marriage long term

Welcome back to the blog! Today we are continuing the Relationship Series with one of my favorite topics. Having a thriving marriage when divorce rates are 50% may sound like a ruthless joke and depending on where you find yourself in life, it can seem impossible especially if you have been burnt and hurt like many people’s hearts have been. This will NOT be another post about marriage and relationships meant to take you foreign paths and run after an impossible ideal such as “4 tips ensuring he never leaves” or “how to get what you need right now”. A successful marriage takes diligent work yet not the kind of work that sucks the energy out of you because it has this unique exponential quality that the more you work on yourself the more the marriage grows. There are so many tips I could list that build a strong foundation for marriage it would hardly fit in one blog post. I will try and share the most important pillars that will grow your marriage’s roots stronger:

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Relationships

How to cope with chronic illness as a couple

Disease is one of the unpredictable events of life which hits us like a ton of bricks. It never asks for our opinion and it completely disrupts our day to day life. We don’t see it coming and are seldom prepared for how to deal with it. Suddenly, this reality does not belong only to “people out there” but it is right in our cozy home. Not only does it take a bit hit on our morale but also it takes its toll on our mental health, relationships, and sense of accomplishment. At the end of the day everything is stalled and we now need to reroute, stop our plans, delay our goals and face this challenge that we know not much about.

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