Tag: vulnerability
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Self-Discipline ≠ Punishment
Years ago, I horribly injured my foot hiking a local trail. This was a hike I had hiked countless times without issue. And yet, I headed up that slope without stretching and came home barely able to walk. If I had any commonsense, I would have gone to a doctor and taken appropriate measures to…
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From Pain to Purpose
She sits across from me – at a sushi restaurant, a coffee shop, in a living room. We tell each other stories – about our kids, our travels, our days. We laugh…until we don’t. Her face and tone change. She opens up about the abuse or the assault years ago – at the hands of…
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Mind the Gap
It is most likely that you didn’t notice because people think of us far less often than we fear they do, but I have been silent here for a few weeks. I was blogging weekly, all written and scheduled in advance, and then I took it all down because the last thing I want to…
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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…
Wisdom from the Trenches 