Healthy does not always mean being happy! Sometimes in healthy relationships there are extremely uncomfortable situations. But those uncomfortable situations contribute to the overall health of the relationships and ultimately make it happier and more successful in the long run. Read more for the 12 signs of a healthy relationship!

Encouraging and truthful phrases can help someone in many ways. It can help someone mentally and emotionally feel better. The phrase that I’m focusing on is, “Even the broken are loved.” At this time in my life, hearing that phrase means a lot.

We can find belonging more wholly in generous relationships, when our confidence isn’t coming from others. And not only can we find it for ourselves, but we can also create it for others: making spaces where people are welcome, loved unconditionally, and authentically desired.

A few years ago I was at a multiple day conference with a couple hundred women. I found myself in a space where I felt extremely uncomfortable in my own skin. Nothing had happened in that space to cause me to feel uncomfortable; the feelings were rising up from inside of me. Familiar lies rose to the surface in my mind and with them tears threatened to spill out from under my eye lids.