compliments

Posted on October 10, 2025 by msw blog

love your earrings, great job on that presentation today, you’re such a good cook. 

It can feel uncomfortable when someone compliments your style, work or skills. Should you negate or downplay the praise? Say a kind remark in return? Change the subject all together? 

Compliments can be lovely in theory but hard to accept, especially for those who struggle with low self-esteem, says behavioral scientist Xuan Zhao. They may feel like they don’t deserve the praise because it doesn’t match their self-image. 

But even if it feels hard, there are good reasons to accept a compliment. Research has shown that it lights up your brain’s reward center and makes you feel happier.  – Life Kit

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Aging

Posted on October 10, 2025 by msw blog

Meryl Streep once said: “One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please. . . . You learn to walk more slowly, but with greater certainty. You say goodbye without fear, and you cherish those who stay. Aging means letting go, it means accepting, it means discovering that beauty was never in our skin . . . but in the story we carry inside us.”

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Thoughtful reflection

Posted on October 9, 2025 by msw blog

It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture or wizard’s wave of the wand. It can be as simple as sipping a cup of tea, taking time to read a poem or soaking in a warm rosewater bath. Rituals like these allow time for thoughtful reflection, and a mental reset, if only for a few mindful minutes in our day.  When we commit to this practice of slowing down, we signal to ourselves that we are worth the time and effort, the commitment, to prioritize our Self and our well-being. 

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life is not yer mother

Posted on October 9, 2025 by msw blog

Oooh. You have to Bone-Grow. Nobody is coming to hand you the missing pieces. If the friendships you crave don’t exist, you have to forge them. If the structure that would benefit you isn’t there, invent it. Same with the life that wasn’t modelled to you. Carve it, instead, out of what you were given. This doesn’t have to be a sad story. Ain’t that the work of a lifetime? Figuring out the blank spots and naming what else might be possible? 

For me, this has meant admitting that there are tools that I assumed would appear. They did not, and I was, at one time, sick about it. I was waiting for Prince Charming. Or I wanted a parent to save me. But everything I wished for existed in me. …

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Kintsugi

Posted on October 8, 2025 by msw blog

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

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