The Emotional Suffocation of Self
What happens when you try to suppress who you are? Many of us have had the experience since we needed to fit in, to please, to match an … Continue reading
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Don’t Ask–BECOME!
Recently, a friend told me I’m lucky my husband allows me to be myself. Allows? He loved and married me as myself. And no one asked him if I could continue … Continue reading
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Cherishing Lady Slipper People
When I was in second grade, our assignment was to create a scrapbook of pressed wildflowers, labeling each. Since I loved wildflowers then as now—including those called weeds, I was … Continue reading
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Welcome!
All are friends who enter here—the kind who care enough to tell the truth, albeit gently. “Gramma” is an ideal of unconditional good will, an attempt to be brave, kind, … Continue reading
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To Burst Past Limitations: “Take it until you make it.”
Many of us live within limitations we see as hopeless walls around us. (“I’m not smart/good/strong/attractive… enough.”) We stumble beneath the criticisms and betrayals of others. But are we victims … Continue reading
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Welcome 2016!
Here we are, standing with our tiptoes on the cliff of 2016, wondering what lies ahead. We’re told the darkness, disaster, and strife we’ve endured in 2015 was the preface … Continue reading
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Change, Change, Change
The one certainty we have going into a new year is that things will change. What “things?” We don’t know. That’s the mystery. Some of us have specific goals to … Continue reading
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WELCOME 2014!
No year is ever entirely horrible. In 2013 some great people were born. People extended kindnesses to strangers. Heroes emerged. My daughter and I found a way to reach out … Continue reading
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Just the beginning…
When my grandmother died, I felt like someone had blasted a giant crater into the core of my life—a black hole that threatened to suck away all the joy left … Continue reading
