by Stephanie Benedetto | Dec 15, 2019 | Awakened Thoughts
So I’m looking at myself in the mirror and thinking: What would it be like to love myself no matter how I show up? What would it be like to wake up with myself each morning and celebrate what meets me, no matter what that might be? And as I’m looking at myself and...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 3, 2019 | 100 Conversations
So many of our relationships seem to come with conditions. As long as you’re a good girl, a nice guy, a hard worker…you’ll get the attention and approval you seek. If not, they’re gone. That’s an old story. Now I’m asking myself, “What would it take for me to...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jan 4, 2018 | 100 Conversations
I try so hard to be good. Spiritual. Mature. And that just isn’t me. Watch this: I want to scream and throw a temper tantrum. I want to shake my fist at the sky and demand an answer. Some days, anyway. It doesn’t always look like that. But when I try to...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jan 28, 2017 | 100 Conversations
Right now I’m struggling with something. I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Watch this: What I know about what’s possible is just the tiniest sliver of what’s available to us. How can I create a goal without clinging so tightly that I miss something even better...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Jan 1, 2017 | Awakened Thoughts
There’s a scene from the movie Dead Again that’s haunted me since I was a teenager. Robin Williams plays the disgraced psychiatrist who now works in a supermarket, and Kenneth Branagh is in love with a woman who turns out to be his reincarnated lover. (Awful cliche,...
