Emma's Enlightenments This week has been hard for me. For a moment, I wasn’t sure what to write about. How can I give advice when I, myself, am lost?  That’s when I snapped myself back into reality. I have to save myself.   If no one is there, be there.  Sometimes, you have to take your own steps to being okay, which means being alone for a little while.  There won’t be someone there to pick you up every time you fall. You can’t expect to always have another set of hands.   Y

Emma's Enlightements This Week’s Advice: Looking Back and Falling Forward.   Welcome back! Even though it’s an adjustment going back and forth, I hope everyone had a much needed, restful break. I had a lot to think about during my time back home.  Over the break, I learned something important: you can look back, but don’t fall back.  I was by myself for a while, and I was thinking way too much.   I started missing people I shouldn’t have and falling back into old habits of s

Emma's Enlightenments This Week’s Advice: You Have Time.   Something that has always scared me is time.  The fact is, it has the ability to either flow so slow or go so fast. It has always had a hold over me.  As a kid, it seemed like the worst thing ever. I always looked at the clock when I had to wait a couple more hours to see a friend, to get out of school, or even until it was morning.   It seemed to go on forever,   but, as I grew up, I was scared for the opposite reas

Emma's Enlightenments This Week’s Advice: Feel It.  As a kid, I was always taught to be tough.   I was shown that emotions are weaknesses and only lead to more of a mess.  As I grew up, my mindset on this obviously had to change.  To be successful, you need to feel your emotions.  If not, they are bottled up, shaken some more and explode.   Not feeling your emotions is worse than feeling them too much.  Likewise, it’s better to feel them as they come, rather than to feel them

Emma's Enlightentments This Week’s Advice:  Content with Aloneness    Something I have been struggling with is being able to be alone.   Because of this, I have led myself to the wrong arms and to the wrong people.  A lot.   I wanted someone to be there, so I ran to the nearest person around me.  I needed someone to just put an arm around me and tell me everything was going to be okay. I needed interaction and reassurance, even if it was from the wrong people.  This led to mo

Emma's Enlightenments This Week’s Advice:   Know What You Can Handle.   Only you know what you can handle.   Something I have...

Emma's Enlightenments This Week’s Advice:   Spread Positivity.   We all have bad days. We all have bad weeks. This is normal, but...

Emma's Enlightenments This Week’s Advice:   Upholding Your Standards.   I have talked a lot about keeping yourself, yourself.   I talk...

"Your self worth is something you should never trade or give away" This Week’s Advice:   Knowing Your Self Worth.   Everything has...