If you're dying for new energy, read this open letter to the universe. It'll inspire you to live the way YOU want to live, no matter what other people are doing, no matter what happened yesterday. Don't take this chance to be here, alive, for granted. Make it something that feels like magic, even when it feels like a mess.

Whatever you think about it, life is beautiful. Even after things fall apart. Regardless of how things fall back together. You were given life. Don’t miss out on this chance. Read these words to help you honor the beauty inherent in every experience. That’s how you turn metal into gold, rubble into treasure, dark into light, pain into healing.

Yoga on your own terms, in your own time... that feels like love to me. If yoga is one way you heal, too, from the terrible things you've been through, read these notes. Whatever you're healing from, you can learn to love better, right here, even after everything. Even in the middle of everything. That's... everything.

Overwhelm is something I’m all too familiar with. Though I’m much better equipped nowadays to handle the stress of being a human, life still feels a little too hard sometimes. (Maybe it’s not really life itself, but the world we live in.) Since writing can be such a powerful tool for calming the chaos, here’s a list of lists to make when the world is way too overwhelming for your liking.

When everything feels like it’s falling apart, read this. Sit with your discomfort, and see what's underneath: stillness, where every feeling, thought, and life comes from. This is where you build from. Now, after the pieces are scattered. Here, the best place to be to make something new out of this life.

If you forgot how much of a gift it is to be here at all, read this. This is your life, after all. It should be full of wonder because the fact that you're here is the greatest miracle of all. Less stress, deeper love, a life that feels like your own... you deserve that much.

A journal is forgiving. You don’t have to be anyone other than who you are (and you don’t have to be an author or a teenage girl) to enjoy the benefits of the process. If you're not sure how to keep a journal that works best for you, here are some ideas. Hint: just be you.

If you could use some wit and wonder today, read these Oscar Wilde quotes from the late 19th century Irish novelist, essayist, poet, and playwright. They're about you and how valuable you are, how much room there is for mystery, and what a gift it is to be here.

If you, too, have someone you look up to, someone who loved despite all the hell they went through (or maybe, because of it), read these words of wisdom. They're from my dad, who did that. Who laughed harder than anyone I knew, even after everything. They'll remind how amazing it is to be here at all.

Losing a loved one teaches you some things… things you’d rather have learned another way, but here you are anyway. You learn that life goes on even while you wish you could pause and press rewind. You find love, even after everything. And it carries you and you do what you can. Mostly, you learn that it’s still your turn to live.