Category: Love and Life
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Friend or Frenemy? – People Who Can Make or Break a Strong Support System
I have had a person cuss me out upon first meeting me…and then become my best friend. I have had many disagreements with close friends (some passive-aggressive and some outright ugly fights)…and yet, the friendships mended and remained strong. And I have met some real duds in my life. These are the people who pretended…
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The Warning Label That Should Come With Therapy
When mothers find out their friend is pregnant for the first time, they have a very typical response that I like to call “Mom Hazing”. The time between finding out about their friend’s first pregnancy and between the actual birth is filled with the telling and retelling of some of the most horrific birthing stories…
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The Power of Connection
There is a story that is circulating around the Internet that goes something like this: A soldier finds himself caught in a deep hole. Try as he might, he cannot climb out. He scrambles and frantically grabs at everything around him, to no avail. “HELP!” he cries. Along comes his sergeant. The sergeant asks what…
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One Day After
Twenty-five years ago, on Valentine’s Day of all days, I opened the door of my barracks room to joke with my roommate, who I thought was jiggling the door handle. It wasn’t my roommate at the door. A male acquaintance forced his way into my room and made my life a living hell. The death…
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Love Others
“You are still in there somewhere,” my counselor recently said to me. “We just have to dig deeper to find you.” In this season of transition, I admitted to feeling a little lost. What I used to be (homeschool mom) is no longer what I will be in the very near future. It is disconcerting…
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Creating a Positive Life – Part III
How have I maintained a positive and happy demeanor as issues in unhealthy relationships surfaced? Great question. I would love to tell you…
Wisdom from the Trenches 