The Emmaus Collective blog
Notes from the Road
Honest writing on grief, faith, and walking beside people, from Joe McGarry.
When you're living in the moment, your focus is on that moment only. The past and the future can't touch you.
It can be a difficult task to put your feelings about the past or future aside. It's lik...
One of the great things about finding your why is discovering your life’s purpose.
Are you living a purpose-driven life? Or are you living daily, just moving along wherever life chooses to take you...
Authenticity is the sense of living to be the truest version of yourself. Rather than sticking to expectations and conventions of others, you want to push against what others expect from you in order ...
If there is one thing that will hold you back from achieving your goals it's complacency. If there's one thing that will hold you back from becoming your true self it's a lack of personal development...
Many people aren’t living their lives as their actual selves. For a variety of reasons, people choose to not live their lives as openly and authentically as they could.
Besides dampening your person...
A lot of people don’t know themselves that well. Because they can’t articulate their preferences, goals, and desires, people who don’t know themselves well often feel lost or directionless in life. To...
When you look in the mirror, who do you see looking back at you? Although the answer to this question may seem easy, this is actually a very complicated question. This is because knowing your true sel...
Every person has a true, actual self at the core of their being. However, this version of yourself isn’t always the one that gets presented to others. Have you ever done something and then immediately...