Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras Horse Hippie

Morning Mantra: “I won’t let my forgiveness become my foolishness.”I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never let you get close enough to hurt me again.Forgiving someone doesn’t mean condoning their behavior. It doesn’t mean forgetting how they hurt you or giving that person room to hurt you again. Forgiving someone means making peace with what happened. It means acknowledging your wound, giving yourself permission to feel the pain, and recognizing why that pa...

Morning Mantra: “Life is like the ocean with big waves of change, all we can do is go or flow.”Sometimes the sea is calm and other times everything can hit at once. You lose a relationship, change jobs, move, so old friends go. Life is up one day and down the next. You can feel like you have it all together on Monday and by Thursday you don’t have a clue.Then life gets easier again. You find a new job, meet new people, their are births, and promotions, and parties and graduations.Life isn’t g...

Morning Mantra: “No one else can tell you to be happy or how to be happy."What you see on social media is rarely accurate. No one posts their bad days, mess ups, or just-doing-nothing photos. Everyone looks busy having fun! But the truth is there are always those days, for every single person.And that’s okay. You do you. They can do them.Your definition of happiness, or better yet contentment, isn’t defined by others. You get to decide. You get to follow what’s right, and real and the truth f...

Morning Mantra: “Sometimes asking for help is the bravest thing you can do.”Some people aren’t good at asking for help because they’re so used to being ‘the helper’. Throughout their life they’ve experienced an unbalanced give and take, so their instinct is usually “I’ll do it on my own.”This is actually a trauma response. People that are afraid to ask for help have been let down by those that should be there for them so many times that they develop this attitude of self-reliance. They think ...

Morning Mantra: “There is always a reason you meet certain people. Either you need them to change your life, or you’re the one that will change theirs.”Over the years I’ve asked myself why I have met certain people. Why did they come into my life at a particular time, what was the purpose of that relationship? Then l realized that there is a role for everyone you meet. Some will test you,Some will use you, Some will love you, All will teach you. But, the ones that are impo...

Morning Mantra: "Just breathe and focus on the simplicity of the next step."When we get overwhelmed we tend to get spun up and think of every little detail of every thing you have facing you. Stop. Breathe. And take one small step.Think of it as a staircase. When you look at all the steps to reach the top it looks daunting, but if you take just the first step, then another, then the next, you can still reach the top without the anxiety tagging along.I'm a list maker, but I never read the enti...