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Here’s What Feeling “At-Home” Within Actually Means, and 3 Ways to Get There

Expert Advice On How To Feel More At-Home From Within

Here’s What Feeling “At-Home” Within Actually Means, and 3 Ways to Get There

Expert Advice On How To Feel More At-Home From Within
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You may have heard this advice a lot – that reaching our dreams (even in a pandemic) starts with how we feel about ourselves, our mindset, or our ability to take care of ourselves first.

But how do you actually DO that?

As I wrote my book At Home Anywhere, inner contentment for me boiled down to this:

Being at home within isn't about reaching the "golden" place, where nothing bad will ever happen again. No. It's knowing yourself enough that if you're feeling down, you know you can turn to the things that help you, which includes knowing when you need to ask someone else for help.

Enjoying the journey means remembering we are alive to LIVE. That happiness includes the hard parts.

Here are 3 ways you can start to build trust and the feeling of home inside you right now:

Share the Brutally Honest Version of How You’re Feeling

Share the Brutally Honest Version of How You’re Feeling
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In the first few months of my move from Canada to Dubai, I felt guilty for being depressed. Here I was living in a beautiful place with a man I loved, hating it and believing I was lost. I kept telling my family I was okay because I didn't want to worry them. The second I told them the truth, I felt better.

Are you sugar coating how you feel? Practice telling the full truth now, and letting it be heard by someone else. It's also possible you're totally loving your life and are afraid to share that because you know other people are upset right now!

Either way, spill it - so you can see no matter what people think about what you shared, you survived sharing it.

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Get Present

Get Present
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A quick way to get present is to state the obvious about where you are and what you're doing.

I'm typing this for you on my laptop at my desk, on a blue chair from IKEA, with a mess of a desk around me.

Going through surroundings can help you realize we are safe, and everything is okay even though there are some stressful aspects to our life right now. This second, we are okay.

Journal on This Prompt: How Would My Life Change if I Started Believing That Happiness Includes the Hard Parts?

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What if happiness was getting to be sad or angry sometimes? How could you redefine the definition of "success" in your life? Take pen to paper and write whatever comes to mind. It's okay to be frustrated one moment and feel good the next. There's no one magic location, piece of advice, or book on the planet that will make everything in your life okay. But YOU can make things in your life feel okay, even if it's one day at a time. Using her many years of experience, working with some of the biggest and best self-empowerment mentors and authors in the US, Rachael Lynn shared her vast knowledge and expertise in her novel, At Home Anywhere. A part memoir, part loving letter, filled with advice on how to lead a more joyful and worthwhile life for those who suddenly find themselves uprooted. Click here to buy your copy of Rachael Lynn's novel "At Home Anywhere". Click here for more wellness news, interviews, and features.
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What if happiness was getting to be sad or angry sometimes? How could you redefine the definition of "success" in your life? Take pen to paper and write whatever comes to mind.

It's okay to be frustrated one moment and feel good the next. There's no one magic location, piece of advice, or book on the planet that will make everything in your life okay.

But YOU can make things in your life feel okay, even if it's one day at a time.


Using her many years of experience, working with some of the biggest and best self-empowerment mentors and authors in the US, Rachael Lynn shared her vast knowledge and expertise in her novel, At Home Anywhere. A part memoir, part loving letter, filled with advice on how to lead a more joyful and worthwhile life for those who suddenly find themselves uprooted. Click here to buy your copy of Rachael Lynn's novel "At Home Anywhere".

Click here for more wellness news, interviews, and features.

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