<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mea Jordaan | Free Yourself</title><description>Learn how to change your perspective to change your life.</description><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/</link><item><title>Stop Chasing Satisfaction: Why Getting What You Want Never Feels Like Enough</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/stop-chasing-satisfaction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/stop-chasing-satisfaction/</guid><description>Have you ever longed for something so much, only to feel no lasting satisfaction when you finally get it? Here&apos;s why that happens — and what actually creates a deeper sense of enough.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feeling Safe Now: How to Find Safety in the Present Moment</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/feeling-safe-in-the-present/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/feeling-safe-in-the-present/</guid><description>Every now and then I get a message from what I can only assume is my higher self. 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I was taking part in it too.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How I Got Over Two Years of Creative Block</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/how-i-got-over-creative-block/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/how-i-got-over-creative-block/</guid><description>For over two years I didn&apos;t make art for myself. Here&apos;s how I got unstuck — through play, Minecraft, a sketchbook on a road trip, and finally learning that my art is for me, not the audience.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Standing Up for Myself, Against Myself</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/standing-up-for-myself-against-myself/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/standing-up-for-myself-against-myself/</guid><description>On emotional intensity, shame, and learning to have my own back. How I stopped judging my biology, started trusting my intuition, and chose kindness over self-sacrifice — one honest building block at a time.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Is the Meaning of Suffering? (Or Do We Create It?)</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/meaning-of-suffering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/meaning-of-suffering/</guid><description>What is the meaning of suffering? Explore how we create meaning, why we seek it, and how shifting your perspective can turn pain into personal growth.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Freedom and choice</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/freedom-and-choice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/freedom-and-choice/</guid><description>Join me in my musings around freedom, choice, and the link between them. Do you view your ability to choose as freedom, or a burden? How does personal accountability come into it all? Read the post and let me know what you think.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Meeting the challenge</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/meeting-the-challenge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/meeting-the-challenge/</guid><description>In this blog piece, I talk about my perspective on challenge and how to face it with courage and determination.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reflecting on turning 35</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/su1lwuekno2b31mmwayaygdncdgsqv/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/su1lwuekno2b31mmwayaygdncdgsqv/</guid><description>In this article, I reflect on my experience of turning 35 in August of 2025.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can you laugh when it feels like everything is crashing down around you?</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/laughing-in-the-face-of-trauma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/laughing-in-the-face-of-trauma/</guid><description>In this piece, I talk about how humour helped me through my experience with cancer. Can you laugh in the face of adversity? It may just be what you need.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cancer check-ups and reflections on purpose, connection and healing</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/cancer-check-ups-and-reflections-on-purpose-connection-and-healing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/cancer-check-ups-and-reflections-on-purpose-connection-and-healing/</guid><description>In this post, I discuss my most recent annual check-up post Hodgkin&apos;s Lymphoma 16 years ago and how my life has been dramatically impacted through my conscious intention to foster interpersonal connections and relationships.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consistency, practicing accountability, and being your own parent</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/consistency-practicing-accountability-and-being-your-own-parent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/consistency-practicing-accountability-and-being-your-own-parent/</guid><description>In this article, I reflect on what it means to stay accountable to ourselves through daily commitment. In many ways, this can be related back to acting as your own parent by adopting a bigger-picture perspective.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Expand your consciousness, expand your horizon</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/expand-your-consciousness-expand-your-horizon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/expand-your-consciousness-expand-your-horizon/</guid><description>In this post, I discuss a pivotal moment in my life where expanding my conscious awareness allowed me to shift to a reality where I am now able to live according to my core values of freedom and autonomy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Owning your trauma: Validation and accountability</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/owning-your-trauma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/owning-your-trauma/</guid><description>In this piece, I talk about why validating your trauma is an important step in overcoming it. Personal agency, accountability and compassion are all a part of the healing process.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Catching runaway emotions: Coping with overwhelm</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/catching-runaway-emotions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/catching-runaway-emotions/</guid><description>In this blog article, I discuss how to catch yourself in moments of overwhelm. Learn why acknowledging our emotions is a pivotal step in overcoming them, how our bias is often invisible to us, and how resistance and acceptance work within these dynamics.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lessons from my cancer: A retrospective celebrating 15 years of remission</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/s66nkegjqi870trni996qdco9ove8d/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/s66nkegjqi870trni996qdco9ove8d/</guid><description>In this article, I talk about some of the bigger lessons that I learned from my experience as a teenage survivor of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fuelling Your Motivation: Strategies to help you find the strength to keep going</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/fuelling-your-motivation-strategies-to-help-you-find-the-strength-to-keep-going/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/fuelling-your-motivation-strategies-to-help-you-find-the-strength-to-keep-going/</guid><description>In this post, I discuss how mindset and behaviour can  work together to feed your motivation in a sustainable way. Learn the importance of setting realistic expectations, how the source of our motivation can lead to our success or failure, and more insights to help you work with yourself effectively.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How NOT to be a blind optimist</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/g3f5nxdagl4vmxw15tclapihljjgf2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/g3f5nxdagl4vmxw15tclapihljjgf2/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting through creative block, permanently.</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/getting-through-creative-block-permanently/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/getting-through-creative-block-permanently/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transform your crappy day :)</title><link>https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/transform-your-crappy-day-/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.meajordaan.com/blog/transform-your-crappy-day-/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>