I've had an influx of text messages this week from friends searching for relationship advice and if not advice than just a friend who will take their worries seriously. I consider myself far from an expert on anything so I assume that my tendency to actually listen and provide thoughtful comments on the love lives of my …
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We Do A Lot. (And We Should Say Thank You.)
Today was a hard day. But I had it in my planner that I had to write a new blog post. And so here I am. I tried for an hour to come up with a reasonable post topic. And in that hour I took the dog out for the night, made my lunch for …
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Hope Is How We Survive
Because I am a lover of words, I sometimes get a single word trapped in my head on a loop. The word won’t leave me until I exhaustively research it, wringing out every last bit of meaning, applying the word to my life, drinking the word up like a big glass of water. Only after …
Bye-Bye to Bad Thoughts – How to Embrace and Work Through Worry
Next up on my road to mindfulness... Working through (and embracing) bad thoughts. Something that has always stuck with me from my therapy days was the notion of ACCEPTING my feelings, worries, and fears. A lot of my stress and anxiety came from the fact that I was upset with myself for being upset. I …
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How to Treat Life Like a Relationship
I have always put relationships first. Romantic, platonic, familial... they're most important. It has never been a question of time or bandwidth, if someone needs me I am there. It's programmed into me. Everything else in my life has always been sort of a mess. Relationships have never scared me but everything else pretty much …
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