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Category: Paula Heller Garland

Paula Heller Garland

As I was standing in my kitchen cooking yesterday, a quiet task that causes my mind to begin reminiscing (similar to washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms and mowing), I reached for the kitchen scissors and off I went. Kitchen scissors. Who knew there were special scissors to cut food items? Mom did.

cooking, kitchen, memories, mom, scissors

Paula Heller Garland

I call my it “the Book of Paula” or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

experience, opinion

Paula Heller Garland

I had to ask myself why I’m continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him? Why not save myself instead? What a miserable realization that I knew all of this yet failed to take action.

action, hurt, misery, suffer

Paula Heller Garland

You can’t sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

broken, broken-heart, healing, healing-abuse

Paula Heller Garland

Don’t forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you’re born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

helpers, nourish, nourishment-of-soul, self-love

Paula Heller Garland

Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I’d been dishing out to my friends.

advice, aligned

Paula Heller Garland

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

codependence, confidence, empowerment, pride, self-esteem

Paula Heller Garland

Don’t beg a man to keep you. If he isn’t sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.

decision, second-best

Paula Heller Garland

People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you’re suffering from one, it sure doesn’t feel that way–at least initially.

Paula Heller Garland

I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

candles, living-in-the-present, living-now, waiting

Paula Heller Garland

I’m amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I’m in need. When I’m open.

Paula Heller Garland

The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, “No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

perfection, reclaim