Tag: positive
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Embrace the Pivot
For years, I was writing a book about my healing journey. It took so long to write because I am a procrastinator, it contained difficult material, and life threw painful curveballs at me constantly. I even wrote a chapter titled “The Book That Almost Wasn’t” because when I really knuckled down to write, in 2018,…
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Dear Younger Me
I look back on photos of a slimmer, slightly less wrinkled version of myself and I don’t wish I was her all over again. But I do wish I could talk to her. I wish I could sit with her and listen as she unpacked her pain. I wish I could help her make heads…
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A Few of My Favorite Things
I’m a list maker. I find satisfaction in brain-dumping what rolls around in my mind onto a piece of paper so the thoughts upstairs don’t drive me absolutely batty or threaten to instigate a system overload. I love the little dopamine boost I get by checking things off my neat little lists. I even add…
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While You Were Blinking…
Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” I have told people for years that I think life is like a bullet train. Inside the train, life moves at an average pace. Everyday things happen in a frustratingly monotonous fashion. Life…
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Creating a Positive Life – Part I
Over a decade ago, well before the onset of a global pandemic and the presence of a war creating anxiety worldwide, I sat on the floor of my bedroom bawling over everything on a regular basis. My concerns seem so trivial now, but at the time, they were emotionally crippling me. I had a front…
Wisdom from the Trenches 