taking care

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I hate to tell you this, but everything matters

Look, there are handfuls and handfuls of things that I have decided I just can not worry about. I couldn’t function if I cared about everything there is to care about. I don’t have it in me to always make the safest, most healthy, most ethical, most economical, most sustainable, most whatever choice all the […]

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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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Growth
Health and Wellness
Home and Family
Mental health
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This Year, More

In the South we don’t often get a blanket of white covering our world on New Year’s day, making everything look new and glittery, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming about the year ahead (and the possibility of a good snow day or two). In years past, I’ve made resolutions, set goals, made bucket […]

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2016
Faith and Religion
Growth
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Write 31 days challenge

Believing There Is Enough

One huge barrier I’ve encountered in taking care has been the feeling of lack and living in the idea of scarcity. Believing that I do not have enough and may not get enough stirs fear up in my heart and keeps me from doing things that are important and necessary to being healthy and functional […]

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2016
Growth
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Write 31 days challenge

Dialing Down the Noise So You Can Hear Yourself Again

When I think about backtracking to a place where I was better at taking care, I find myself in a time in my life where I allowed myself a lot of solitude and space aware from pretty much everyone and everything and as an introvert, that kind of space and solitude is necessary for me […]

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