The "I AM" Blog
There's a specific instinct almost every parent has felt at least once, watching a kid struggle with something frustrating and wanting, badly, to just fix it immediately so the discomfort stops. A puzzle that won't come together. A friend who...
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Long before affirmation decals existed, the practice already had a name: mirror work. Author Louise Hay built an entire self-love method around one simple act, standing in front of a mirror, looking yourself in the eye, and saying something kind....
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There's a difference between telling a child they did well and giving them language for who they are. Encouragement responds to a moment. Affirmations build an identity. Both matter, but they're doing different work, and understanding which one is which...
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Children absorb language the way they absorb everything else in their environment, completely and without the filtering system that adults eventually develop. The phrases they hear repeatedly, about who they are, what they're capable of, whether they're loved and worthy...
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Manifestation journaling has an image problem. It sits in a corner of the wellness world that's heavy on vision boards and light on accountability, where the general advice is to write down what you want in present tense as if...
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