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Anjelica Ilovi

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Editorial

Anjelica was an editor and writer at Elephant Journal. This is a collection of published Editorial articles she has edited, by authors around the globe.

For the Highly Sensitive Person: Why we feel Overwhelmed & Burnt Out.
8 Books that Seriously Changed my Life.
Maybe the Notion of “Twin Flames” Reminds Us to Love in the Moment—& Let go of Attachment.
11 Questions from a Couples Therapist for when our Relationship is at a Crossroad.
The Price we Pay for Avoiding the Truth.
9 Ways to Recover from Perfectionism & Invite more Flow into our Lives.
5 Ways a Vegan Diet may help treat Hormonal Imbalances.
Why being “Body Positive” is Hard.
Does a Zen Master say F*ck? You Bet.
This is the First Step to Body Acceptance.
Feng Shui: How to Create the Perfect Yoga Space at Home.
I Went to a Nude Beach & Liked it (Kind Of).
5 Daily Habits to Help Manage Anxiety.
Plants in the Bedroom: Bad Feng Shui?
The Single Most Important Rule for Successful Relationships.
Yes, Twin Flames exist. No, it most likely won’t Last Forever.
3 Ways to Quiet the Inner Critic & change Limiting Beliefs.
Why Being Unconscious to Our Feelings causes Us to be Numb.
Saying Goodbye to Someone We Thought We Couldn’t Live Without.
The Seduction of our Addictions & Shadow Side.
Finding my Purpose: 5 things I would tell my Younger Self.
Baby, will you hear my Last Plea? {Poem}
Languishing: The Aftermath of COVID-19 & How to Rebuild Ourselves.
How to Level Up your Dating Prospects.
His Tears on my Chest: How Men can open their Hearts to Receiving.
5 Lessons from Yoga to Improve your Life “Off the Mat.”
The Battle between the Brain & Heart.
9 Simple Grounding Techniques for your everyday Yoga Practice.
Ayurveda: Restore your Inner Balance with these 3 Doshas.
When our Intuition Knocks & we Don’t Answer.
Our Spiritual Journey doesn’t Start with One Book, One Belief—it Starts Here.
Just-Sitting Meditation: Finding the Balance between Doing & Being.
4 Ways to Get Unstuck & Rise above Life’s Challenges.
When New Relationships set off Past Emotional Wounds.
How to Manage a Relationship with someone Battling Mental Illness.
Why Difficult Conversations are an Opportunity for Growth & Connection.
The “I love you, but I love me more” Mentality is not Selfish.
How to Break the Cycle of Drama & Harmful Arguments in Relationships.
I Lost my Little Girl—and almost Myself.
Why Ayahuasca saved my Life—& helped Cure my Depression.
8 Morning Rituals to Start the Day Energized & Mentally Relaxed.
8 Hard Lessons Single Motherhood has Taught Me.
The Power of Writing like No One is Reading.
How to Face our Fears & Go for our Dreams. (Even when we’re Scared Sh*tless).
How the Journey with Depression Changes Us.
The day he Quit Alcohol, it Killed our Marriage.
7 Hidden Spiritual Warnings & Meanings in “The Wizard of Oz”.
How Running Saved my Life after a Traumatizing Divorce.
6 Ways Meditation Helps us Feel Calmer, Connected & Happier.
Breathing is the Secret to Being: 5 Ways Breathwork can Transform your Life.
What’s wrong with the Yoga Industry? An Indian Yoga Master Explains.
Not Doing Your “Womanly” Duties? Asylum it Is.
8 Inspiring ways Young Innocence can Bring us Home to Ourselves.
3 Surprising Things I Learned while Writing my Book.
5 Reasons Play time is Essential to Children’s Learning Skills.
When our Soul is Calling, Are we Listening?
Finding Stillness: If only my Night Owl could meet my Mourning Dove.
How to Quiet the “Monkey Mind” & Be in the Moment.
Erotic Women can be Leaders, Too.
Why we need to be Empathetic when people Unintentionally Trigger Us.
How this Ancient Practice Can Calm us & Improve our Mental Focus.
How to Radically embrace more Joy in your Life: 7 Practical tips.
15 Questions to ask when we’re having a “Crisis of Meaning.”
The Generosity of Trees: What we can Learn by Listening to Mother Nature.
How to Truly find Ourselves—& Love everything we are.
From Surviving to Thriving: A Daughter’s Guide to Healing her Heart.
How I Learned to Bounce after Losing a Bosom Buddy.
Appreciating Life means Seeing the Tiny Details & the Bigger Picture.
When our Mother Wound shows up as Addiction: 5 Ways we can Heal.
In Stillness, we Find Gratitude. {Poem}
If you’ve ever Loved anyone who is Dying: A poem about Hope.
45 Million Americans struggle with Student Loan Debt: What can we do about it? (Seriously, I Need Help.)
Into the abyss of Boundless, Unconditional Love. {Poem}
3 Ways we can Transform our Inner Being with Intuitive Movement.
Insomnia: When the demons keep us up at Night.
You are Resilient, Graceful & Worthy of Abundance. {A Daily Mantra}
A Woman’s Greatest Friend can be found within Herself.
If I live as long as my Mom did, I only have 10 years Left.
Sometimes, “Not This” is enough to put us on the Right Path. {Inspired by Glennon Doyle}
It’s Okay if you can’t fully Let it Go.
Awareness vs. Consciousness: How to stay “Woke” without Stonewalling Others.
Learning to be Comfortable with Emptiness: Teachings from a Zen Buddhist.
Life is not a Checklist.
5 Ways I manage my Anxiety to rejoin the world at my own Pace.
Death: The final Surrender. {Poem}
6 Musts of a Professional Procrastinator.
It’s a Matter of Mindfulness: Approaching Life through Passion Projects.
Loneliness, my dear Companion.
Taking your Clothes Off can be the Start of a Wild & Beautiful Love Affair.
Loving Something is Not Enough—we have to Engage.
A Sober girl’s Bucket List.
Dismantling the Patriarchy: Why it’s okay to be Roaring Mad about Inequality.
Why I Wish Relationships didn’t have to Grow.
How our “Dark Moon Phase” is a Powerful time to go Deep into our Inner Wisdom.
9 Mind-Blowing Quotes from “The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.”
A Day in the Life of a Highly Sensitive Person.
How do you Catch a Cat?
5 Guided Meditations to reduce Stress and Restore Emotional Balance.
Buddha never said that Desire is the Cause of Suffering.
The 7 Types of Hunger that Guide our Lives.
The Power of Release: Letting go of our Painful Stories & Trauma.
3 Things I learned in Isolation.
How we can Meditate Daily without actually Meditating.
A Love Letter to my Broken Heart.
How I am learning to Overcome my Biases as a White Therapist.
10 Mindful Leadership Tips that will Transform your Team—& Life.
Why do we put off our Happiness?
Does Every Writer feel this Way?
How to Stay Flexible in Stressful Situations.
How to Make Peace with our Inner Being.
A Letter from the “Toxic” One.
How to Leave a Soul-Sucking Job—& Pursue our Childhood Dreams.
The journey of Self-Acceptance: Getting Sober & Embracing Gray.
Mean what you say & say what you mean: Words Do Matter.
There are no Shortcuts on the road to Success.
What “The Fool” can Teach us about the Power of Being.
Reclaiming our Authentic Selves—& what it Means to Truly Live Free.
A True Story: Learning to Walk again with the Power of Imagination.
6 Ethical Reasons to Go Vegan.
Therapists have Feelings Too.
Why we take Things Personally—& How to Stop.
6 Members Who make Up your Soul Team.
Battling Mental Illness: Why we Must Protect Ourselves when Choosing Partners.
Love is the Key to Restoring the Brokenness in our World.
What on Earth are we Doing with Online Dating?
Becoming Conscious Men: Removing the Mask of “Toxic Masculinity.”
Rise. {Poem}
What Viking Reenactments Taught me about Expressing our Needs.
Why it’s Okay to Forgive Our Parents.
5 Daily Habits to help with Mental Health Recovery.
Mattie’s Words: Losing Language to Dementia.
A 60 second Technique to stay Calm & Present in our Super Busy Lives.
The Masks we Hide Behind.
How to Free our Minds & Inner Child with Self-Awareness.
Why we Need to Renew our “Faulty Lenses” from Childhood.
3 Ways We can Strengthen our Intuitive Abilities.
Healing Unhealed Wounds Takes Time.
Why we need to Address the Stigma of Mental Illness & our Physical Scars.
The Blurred Lines between Promoting Health and Being Insensitive.
I’m Sick of the “Spiritual” World.
The Journey of Healing: Why we Don’t need to Be Ashamed.
How to Break Free from our Addictions & Self-Sabotaging Behaviours.
15 Natural Ways to Improve our Immune System & overall Well-being.
How I Let go of My (Seemingly) Picture Perfect Life.
Why True Beauty comes From Within.
The Knight in Shining Armor. {Poem}
What No One says about Pregnancy & Motherhood.
What Grief taught Me about my Addiction to Busyness.
Me & Grief: Losing a Loved one Suddenly.
How we can Improve our Mind & Life with Keystone Habits.
Yoga Teacher Training: How we End up Healing Ourselves First.
Letting Go of the Person we Love but Can’t be With.
What Finally Helped me Worry Less.
This is the Hardest Part of Parenting.
Why Female Friendships are so Important.
How my Abortion Liberated me from Shame.
How I Use Tarot Therapy to Unlock the Subconscious Mind.
Why we Need to stop Normalizing Stress—& 5 Tips to Manage It.
The Space between Male Pleasure & Endless Possibility. {Adult}
Avoiding Caregiver Burnout: 6 Self-Care Tips.
An Open Letter to the Man I thought would be My Forever.
God make Tomorrow as Wonderful as Today.
The Liberation of Women: How to rise as a Priestess.
Why we don’t Need to Let this World or Others Define Us.
A Symptom of our Time: Distractions.
The Dark Side of Being an Empath.
Why Listening to our Conscience helps us Make Better Decisions.
Netflix’s “YOU”: 6 Warning Signs you Might be Dating Joe Goldberg.
Speak to Me of the Love we Shared. {Poem}
Mastering our Habits: The Importance of Regular Practice.
Are 12-Step Programs Helpful or Just a Cult?
The Divine Awakening of the Soul. {Poem}
What we are Actually Looking for When we Ask for Advice.
How to Find the Right Mentor, Coach or Therapist (& why it’s Important to Choose wisely).
Whatever you Give a Woman, she’ll Multiply it & Give it Back.
What Trees can Teach us about External Love & Friendship.
I Left the Nonprofit world to Sell Expensive Leggings.
Why Forgiveness is So Hard.
How my Divorce taught me to Speak up for What I Want.
Why we need to Honor Past Generations—& Continue Fighting for Equality.
Venture off the Beaten Path: Your Becoming. {Poem}
Have Emojis become the New Love Language?
A Letter to my Little Angel: Why I am Not a Mother Yet.
Benefits of Yoga: 7 Reasons to Bend it like a Pretzel.
How to Combat Feelings of Loneliness.
The Voice of Procrastination: To Sleep or Write? That is the Question.
A Letter from my Future Self about my Divorce.
The Story of Jamu: Indonesia’s Ancient Healing Drink.
4 Essential Traits of Quality Friendships.
Remembering Forgotten People: Veterans Day at San Quentin State Prison.
Summertime Sadness: How to Cope with Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder.
A Powerful Note from an 88-year-old Woman with Parkinson’s.
What a Successful Journalist taught me about Perfectionism & our Life Mission.
The Benefits of Nature Therapy: How the Trees help us Grieve.
How to Get out of Our Own Way—& Let go of Shame.
3 Ways to Overcome Perfectionism & Find Freedom through Failure.
Why Prince Charming doesn’t Exist.
An Open Letter to My Anxiety: Not this Time.
The Key to Joy: Take a Moment to Have a Moment.
6 Tips for Delaying Gratification—& Why it’s Important.
Winter Solstice: Shadow Work & The Power of Quiet Contemplation.
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