philosophy of a sassy empath

  The guidance we are looking for is within us. I know it's a cliché but there is a huge revelation in this for anyone who chooses to truly hear. A lot of times we think that finding ourselves is about adding more to our life: more skills, more experiences. But what I know to be true is this: we become ourselves by shedding away what we are not. When we are able to silence all the noise on the outside is when we can truly hear what has always been inside. It has been in inspiration. It has been in the frustration with what our life looks like. It has been in the nudge we feel to do something differently. It's similar to carving wood. We get a big blob of wood and define it by slowly chipping away at it to create a sculpture. The same way, we define ourselves by chipping away what we are not.

“Overthinking” has become a buzz word in the last few years. Many of us are self-proclaimed “overthinkers” who seemingly think to a point of self-sabotage. I am one of those people whose own mind can be their biggest enemy sometimes. However, the lingo around it has never appealed to me. I am a thinker and I love thinking. The term “overthinking” however, suggests that if I think over a certain threshold then it’s problematic. I have now come to the conclusion that this notion is completely false. There is no such thing as over thinking. There is only unorganized thinking. There is only unintentional thinking. Great thinkers who have created popular movies, businesspeople who have created enormous wealth for themselves by creating value for others, writers who have written best-selling books, have all spent a considerable amount of time thinking and planning down to the last detail. They have, if you will, OVER-thought; thought more than the average person. Therefore, overthinking, in ...