Brianna Wiest
Brianna is the author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, Ceremony, and When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal.
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11 Struggles Of Being An Ambitious Introvert
1. It’s not even just easy to let work take over your life, it’s the default you revert to if you aren’t careful. It’s hard to strike a balance when you kind of don’t care about your social life as much as you do your work life. People say it’s unhealthy, but is it healthier to…
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7 Books That Will Change The Way You See Everything
There's something about seeing how ancient wisdom applies to a modern life that makes everything seem that much more connected.
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30 Things I Am Grateful For Today (And Always)
1. That humans are a self-healing species. 2. The infinitude of people wiser and more talented than I, because of whom I will always be able to learn more, see differently, understand better, and generally be entertained. 3. That anytime something hasn’t worked out the way I wanted it to initially, something better did. Always. Without fail.…
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Read This When You Don’t Understand Why People Are Unkind
People take on the characteristics of those who have most deeply hurt them. Within their unkindness, they are actually revealing to you the shape of their wound. What they have done to you says far more about them than it does about you. Your choice becomes whether or not you will allow the shape of…
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24 Signs That People Who Self-Doubt & Second Guess Are Powerful Beyond Belief
1. The day you stop doubting yourself is the day you stop growing. 2. Self-doubt is not the enemy. The willingness to be unsure is the openness to learn. 3. Real confidence is not believing that you are perfect, it is knowing that you are capable. 4. You are a work in progress and always…
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I Am Slowly Learning That I Don’t Have To Be Confrontational To Have Self-Respect
I used to think that to have self-respect, you had to be aggressive about it. I used to think that the people who were most assertive were the ones who everyone admired most: the one with mic drop opinions, the ones with harsh attitudes, the ones who were slightly insulting and the ones who didn’t…
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What Self-Care Really Means, Because It Is Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake
It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.
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What Self-Care Really Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake
It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.
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10 Concrete Signs You Have A Soul Connection To Your Lover
Are you and your lover soulmates? Here the 10 signs that will indicate whether or not you are your partner have a soul connection and are soulmates. 1. Even if your relationship doesn’t last forever, you know that what you did have together – for however long you had it – transformed your life. It’s…
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The Psychological Trick That Permanently Frees You From Old Experiences
Just because an experience has ended doesn’t mean it’s over. We store unfinished and unresolved emotional experiences within our bodies. Cognitively, we often find that we are stunted by the time in our lives in which we were damaged, or traumatized. We got scared, we never got over the fear, and so we stopped growing.…
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This Year, Let Go Of The People Who Aren’t Ready To Love You
Decide you're deserving of real friendship, true commitment and complete love with people who are healthy and thriving.
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This Is What Self-Care Really Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake
Sometimes self-cares is about getting deeper and healing what hurts. Don't use shallow techniques to avoid what's really wrong.
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On The Days It Feels Like You’ll Never Move Forward, Just Remember How Far You’ve Come
Whether you realized it or not, the time passed. Without you having to even try, joy emerged from your days.
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When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal
It takes time to heal, and sometimes you need to go on that healing journey with intention.
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You Are Allowed To Let Go Of Your Old Dreams, Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Differently
If you’re like most people, there will probably come a time in your life when you are faced with the realization that the things you once wanted in the past are not the things you want for the future, and this isn’t a comfortable thing to accept.
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How To Stop “Uprooting,” The Self-Sabotaging Behavior That Prevents You From Really Blossoming
It takes courage to wipe the slate clean. In many cases, people struggle more with not being able to change than they do changing too often. However, uprooting is a self-sabotaging behavior that masks itself as reinvention and revolution far too easily. It’s a process that keeps you always planting, and sprouting — but never…
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One Day, You Will Look Back On This Time, And All You Will See Is Magic
One day, you will look back on this time, and all you will see is magic. You won’t remember how stuck you felt, or how far behind you thought you were, or what you wished you had done differently. All you will see is that within your uncertainty was also potential, and within your lostness…
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This Year, Let Go Of The People Who Aren’t Ready To Love You
Decide you're deserving of real friendship, true commitment and complete love with people who are healthy and thriving.