UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Tag: personal-growth

  • The Skill They Didn’t Want Me to Learn (But I Did Anyway)…

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    Mae Faurel
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    A letter from my future self… Dear Me, So here I am, ten years on, writing back. Funny thing is, the skill I mastered wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t cooking, coding, or speaking seven languages (though, let’s be honest, that would’ve been handy when trying to decode executor-speak). No, the real skill was trusting myself and…

  • Bruised, Brilliant, and Still Here…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Well, now, would you look at the state of it! Life’s a right messy, scheming hoor some days, isn’t it? One minute you’re flat-out minding your own business, thinking you’ve finally got a handle on things, maybe even feeling half-decent about yourself, and then, bang, the universe decides it’s time for another round of ‘let’s…

  • Trusting Your Inner Compass…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Trusting Your Inner Compass: How I Learned to Follow My Gut… From the moment I was a child, I never quite fit the mold. I was the kid asking too many questions, poking at the edges of what was ‘acceptable,’ and generally making everyone – including our parish priest a bit uncomfortable. But beneath all…

  • What’s the Point of All This? (Asking for a Soul)

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    Mae Faurel
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    Lately, I’ve been sitting with some of the big questions, the kind that don’t get polite answers. Why am I here?What is this life actually about?Why does so much feel… fake? Some days, it hits like a quiet ache. Other days it’s a full-on existential scream into the void. You know the one. Is this…

  • Episode 29 – Stay Light, Stay Laughing…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Lately, I’ve been reminding myself of this simple truth:Not everything needs my energy. Not every text needs a reply.Not every comment needs a clever comeback.Not every invite deserves a yes.And not every drama-filled moment requires a front-row seat from me. Some days, the most spiritual thing you can do is sip your tea, water your…

  • Episode 25 – This Blog Is My Therapy, My Record and a Bit of a Wild Ride

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    Mae Faurel
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    You ever find yourself living through something so ridiculous, so absurd, so heavy with drama that if you wrote it into a book, people would call it unrealistic? Yeah, that’s me right now. Family stuff.The kind of messy, jaw-dropping, greed-soaked nonsense you’d expect from a Netflix true crime doc or a high-stakes soap opera. Greed…