mental health
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May There One Day Be No “Other”
I took my kids to a coffee shop in a nearby town I used to work in. It’s in an old house and full of local art and has a huge wrap around porch. I remember coming here with a woman who chain smoked and we would sit outside and have our sessions there, sipping […]
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Feel Good
Gratitude, Positive Thinking, Reframing
Health and Wellness
Mental health
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10 Ways to Reset Yourself When Everything is Going Wrong
The human experience offers us a variety of experiences and opportunities throughout life and one of those experiences is the everything is going wrong experience. There have been times in my life that I was offered the experience so often and so frequently that I sometimes just had to laugh at the ridiculousness of […]
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Relationships
I Wouldn’t Mind A Little Noise
A conversation with an old camp friend had me digging out my photo album tonight. Looking through it I saw that I had taken a few letters from friends (okay, boys) and left them in with the pictures. For some reason, it all of the sudden broke my heart. The same way that I realized […]
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Health and Wellness
Mental health
Perspective
This Light And Momentary Affliction
I’ve been told that I am called to lay down my life. Too often, I think I think of that in terms of literally dying, when it’s more likely that I am to lay down the life that I want to have or think I should have or even have been convinced that I should […]
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Health and Wellness
Mental health
Perspective
Relationships
Some Ties Can Be Cut
When I was a child I found one of those “My Name Means” cards with my name on it. It said that Rebecca meant “devoted one“. I remember that I had to ask my mom what devoted meant. I thought it had something to do with voting. I tried to find that definition again associated […]
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