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Emotions Are Safe. Emotions Are Teachers. Emotions Are Healers.
Emotions can be scary and overwhelming, but they don't have to be! We just need to recognize that they are safe and they are teachers.
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Divorce Can Feel Harder Than Death
My father died suddenly in 2022, and my marriage entered hospice months later. I can say the latter, which was protracted, was worse.
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A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step - Tao Te Ching
Today Is Step One…In Stilettos Rock Studs by Valentino. Or as I like to call them, my Wonder Woman shoes. This is my first post in quite...
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It's Okay To Not Be Okay - Part 2
We agree...yes? So, then what? In my last post, I discussed the newly minted cliché It’s Okay To Not Be Okay. I sang its praises for...
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It's Okay To Not Be Okay
A (Welcome) Cliché Brought To Us By 2020
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Embracing the Contradictions and Complexities That Make Us Human
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions - Charles Caleb Colton As I sit here drafting my own obituary in my head, I’m...
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This Too Shall Pass
You Are The Sky. Not The Thunder, Lightning, Clouds or Rain. You Are The Sky.
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7 min read
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The Fifteen Minute Pity Party (With Flex Time)
Go Ahead And Throw One - If Beyoncé Can Have One, Then So Can You
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8 min read
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A Letter I Will Never Get To Send
But Don't Need To: A Merry File.
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4 min read
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What's In A Name?
My name ain't Susan. Or Mack for that matter.
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5 min read
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My Birthday Wish(es).
An Open Letter To My Sons.
On this day, my 48th birthday, I wish upon you many gifts.
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3 min read
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Said The Buddha: Don't Judge Others, Because You Are Not Perfect
As did Bob Marley. And my mother. And me. And also, duh…
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Live, Love, Learn, LAUGH
I won’t remember each time I laugh or what it was that made me laugh, but I’ll never forget the first time.
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To Thine Own Self Be True...But First, Know Thyself - Part I
A Socrates and Shakespeare mash up!
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11 min read
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To Thine Own Self Be True...But First, Know Thyself - Finale (finally...)
"I am what I am and that's all what I am"
Popeye
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8 min read
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