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20 Most Recent Post Titles with Excerpts

A bare list of links to the last 20 blog posts with linked titles, author and date, a short excerpt, and a continue-reading link.

Who Am I: Developing a Better Sense of Self

By Antoinetta Vogels | February 21, 2024

Who am I? is the most important Self awareness question you can ask as you traverse your life’s journey.  We talk about politics, sports, celebrities, and the current pandemic and Covid-19 crisis. But we don’t wonder who and what we actually ARE. We don’t focus on our own self awareness. We wonder how we can…

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Unleash Readers’ Potential with the Insightful Book about a Woman’s Struggle with Chronic Insomnia

By Healthy Sense of Self | September 7, 2023

Republished from San Diego, CA – WEBWIRE   Renowned author Antoinetta Vogels has unveiled her groundbreaking self-help book, “Healthy Sense of Self: The Secret to Being Your Best Self,” a transformative guide that empowers readers to unravel the hidden motivations behind their actions, leading to mental clarity, improved health, and the ability to overcome relationship challenges. During…

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Find Your True Wealth as Your Truest Self

By Healthy Sense of Self | May 9, 2023

True You, True Wealth! What does True Wealth mean to you? When I was active as the Money Whisperer, my mission was to help my clients build better relationship with their money. Of course, we focussed on the money, but it was never about finances alone. After all, we are so much more than a…

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3 Ways to Use the SoS Method to Cope with Life’s Greatest Challenges

By Antoinetta Vogels | August 31, 2022

If I didn’t have a strong sense of self for life challenges, I’d be functioning at a different level. And without the Sense of Self (SoS) Method, I would not be in a good place right now.  Life could be making me feel very sad, and I could be feeling depressed and devastated about what…

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Is Self-Sabotaging Behavior Causing Your Insomnia?

By Healthy Sense of Self | July 1, 2022

Add insomnia to the list of self-sabotaging behavior. Tossing and turning . . . struggling to calm your racing thoughts, and watching the hours crawl by at night . . . Living with insomnia is a lonely and stressful experience.  Doesn’t it sometimes feel like you’re being punished for not knowing how to just “let…

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What’s the Magic Formula? Dare to Look within Your Self

By Antoinetta Vogels | June 24, 2022

What’s the Magic Formula for Your Healthy Sense of Self?  In many of my articles, you learn what a healthy sense of self is and how you can tackle many problems in your life by restoring your Sense of Self (SoS). In this blog article, I want to take a different approach.  Most likely you…

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School Shootings and Root Cause of Violence in America

By Antoinetta Vogels | May 31, 2022

How Do We End Gun Violence in America? It happened again. On May 24, 2022, while people all around the world are still recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and dreading a new variant, a young man shot at and took the lives of nineteen children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School…

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Good versus Evil: Peace & War, Angels & Demons

By Healthy Sense of Self | May 25, 2022

Good versus Evil. Peace versus War. Angels versus Demons. These dichotomies have been known since the beginning of human history, having always been represented through drawings, graffiti, texts, statues, and many other artistic expressions. Many people try to avoid any form of contact with what they consider evil, even on an ideological level, but generally,…

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Is Perfectionism Feeding Your Addiction to Approval?

By Antoinetta Vogels | May 14, 2022

Striving to be perfect is a learned behavior based on an addiction to approval. Perfectionism is all about analyzing what you contribute or achieve and believing it isn’t good enough.  Perfectionism is a strategy to feed the addiction to approval. Why is that? Not because it really is not good enough, but because of your…

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Mother’s Day Celebration with Healthy Sense of Self

By Healthy Sense of Self | May 5, 2022

Let’s start from the beginning. Mother’s Day is a civil celebration in some countries of the world, celebrated in honor of the figure of the mother, motherhood, and the social influence of mothers. It was celebrated in pagan times, at the time of the Greeks and Romans, and was linked to the cult of female…

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War Destroys the Sacred Value of Human Life

By Healthy Sense of Self | May 3, 2022

It has now been over two months since Russia declared war on Ukraine: the recurring nightmare of many materialized today when we were almost sure that armed conflicts of this nature would never repeat themselves, at least not so close to home. Before the attack, these hostilities seemed to us something distant from us, belonging…

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Be Free to Be Who You Truly Are

By Antoinetta Vogels | April 20, 2022

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on…

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How to Maintain Healthy Relationships with Your Close Friends and Family

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 26, 2022

Maintaining healthy relationships can be a challenge.  Reflect, for a moment, on the importance of having healthy relationships with your loved ones. The relationship could be your partner, sibling, parent, husband, wife, or child . . .  As you think about it, you may find that there’s always room for more flexibility and more acceptance.…

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Are you a Workaholic? Here’s Some Sense of Self Advice

By Antoinetta Vogels | January 17, 2022

When I was younger, I had no idea that my life was not supposed to be about performing perfectly so I could feel good about myself. I don’t mean to say that doing things well so you feel satisfied is wrong. Absolutely not. But if feeling good about yourself becomes compulsive, meaning you can’t compromise on…

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Ready to Start Building Strong Self-Confidence?

By Healthy Sense of Self | November 2, 2021

Why do some people seem to have all the strong self-confidence? The self-assured colleague, the optimistic best friend, the sibling who has it all together: Do you ever feel surrounded by people who seem to have all the strong self-confidence? Doesn’t it sometimes seem like they’re just sailing through life on their buoyant self-worth, while…

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My Sleepless Night and Bout with Self-Sabotage

By Antoinetta Vogels | October 17, 2021

Last night, I woke up around three in the morning and stepped into the other room to lie down. I do that often because I still have a hard time falling back to sleep when my man next makes little noises or moves around in the bed. It always worked . . . but not…

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This Is What Happens When Anger Issues Block Your True Self

By Healthy Sense of Self | July 8, 2021

Are anger issues blocking you from your true Self? Mr. Hyde, the Incredible Hulk, Annie Wilkes from Stephen King’s Misery: what do all these characters have in common? Anger issues. They all have incredibly short tempers and get angry at the drop of a hat. In fact, many compelling characters in film and literature possess…

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How to Find Your Me Time During an Ongoing Pandemic

By Antoinetta Vogels | March 26, 2021

Find Your Me Time — How to Make time for yourself during the pandemic. Spring is in the air, and for a lot of people, spring break seems daunting or was postponed. You want to go on vacation, but is it actually possible? Do you have enough money? Will you be safe out there? You…

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Black History and Crucial Knowledge for Building a Healthy Sense of Self

By Antoinetta Vogels | February 25, 2021

Dear reader, I am thrilled to introduce you to an essential book by William H.T. Bailey called, Building a Healthy Sense of Self: Essential Knowledge for African People. With his book, Bailey hoped to have provided a resource and healing tool for individuals of African descent who live in a country notorious for racial injustice…

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9 Easy Ways Daily Journaling Improves Your Life

By Healthy Sense of Self | December 15, 2020

It’s true: daily journaling can help you reconnect and restore your healthy sense of Self. Shouldn’t we all be looking for different ways to improve our mental health, preserve our life balance, and nurture our inner peace?   With all the uncertainty and isolation happening in the world, it’s super important that we take good care…

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