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What Emotions and Cravings Have in Common
For years I have been subscribing to a correspondence course that focuses on different aspects of self-care and self-improvement. I like to save the lessons. Sometimes I also like to go back and read...
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Thou Shalt Not Wallow
I should have been a hippopotamus. There is nothing I seem to enjoy more than a good emotional wallow. I roll around in whatever the emotion is (especially if it is painful, anxious or fearful),...
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Growing Happiness
My house is filled with birds. I mean – FILLED. I don’t mean live birds. I only have one of those. But my art, pillows, pens, screensavers, candleholders, purses, journals, lamps….you name it, there’s...
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Trying to Trust
Trust is a tough one. Trying to trust, I have discovered, is like trying to breathe. Until “trying” turns to “breathing” you’re basically out of luck. In the same way, trying to trust has become a...
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The Power of Your Presence
I am an avid don Miguel Ruiz fan. Having said that, I will confess I never know when my favorite authors are releasing new books, and Ruiz is no exception. Recently I was researching his classic book...
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The Insecurity Hit Squad
In my life, there is a never-ending stream of highly insecure visitors who are always eager to hang out with me. For instance, fear. Or, I should say, fears. Plural. Very, very plural. Here is just one...
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What to Do When Someone Hurts Us
Often in my college programs I share the story of how my best friend from kindergarten started out our 6th grade year by telling me I was too fat to be her friend. She told me it was because she wanted...
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Doing Bad to Do Good
I love movies. Truly, I do. Movies are uplifting, comforting, instructive, thought-provoking, affirming and sometimes challenging. Movies teach me and encourage me, scare me and fill me with gratitude....
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When Life Seems Like a Thankless Job
I hope I am not the only one who sometimes goes to bed at night or wakes up in the morning and thinks to herself, “Remind me why I am showing up for this (life) again?” Lately, it has happened a bit...
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Necessary Endings
A few posts ago I mentioned a recent period of time when everything in my life seemed to be going south – as fast as it possibly could. The only trouble was, I didn’t want to go that way at all, and...
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Wrestling with ‘Luck’
My Dad considers himself a “lucky person.” While I am as delighted by this news as any good daughter would be, I have to admit that luck and I have our differences. Specifically, I disagree with luck...
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Trust (And Why I’d Rather Have a Root Canal)
Last month I wrote about why I’m afraid of love. Now I suspect that was just so I could put off discussing my feelings about trust. Honestly, I’d rather have a root canal (and I’ve had three difficult,...
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My Trust “Aha” Moment
So recently I wrote about trust….or rather, my lack thereof. But then this morning I had a trust-based “aha” moment. This realization stemmed from my ongoing contemplation about the difference between...
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Why “Normal” Hurts
Often I wake up in the morning pondering the deep questions of life. Or at least what I think are the deep questions of life. Then I catch myself starting to wonder – “is this normal?” The trouble with...
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My Inner Crazy
Recently I had a conversation with my mentor about my crazy neighbor. I told her that it bugged me that I am acting out of character with my neighbor – ignoring her when she walks by, attempting to...
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Happy
Recently I came down with a very bad sinus infection. And some kind of icky bronchial thing. And total laryngitis. Being housebound and medicated (over a long sunny holiday weekend no less) I resorted...
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Compassion Meditation – and Why It’s Helping Me
I wish I knew the answer to that. All I do know is that it seems to be helping. At this point you might be justified to ask, “helping with what?” This part I can actually answer. Sometimes I find...
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Seeing Stripes
2013 has brought many new opportunities. In fact, right about this time each year I often start to contemplate what I will remember most when New Year’s Eve arrives. Will it be the new friends I’ve...
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What Casper Just Taught Me About My Fear of Love
See? Nothing to be afraid of, right? When I was little sometimes I watched the cartoon “Casper the Friendly Ghost.” Of course, this particular ghost looked like a straight-up combo of the Baby Jesus...
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I Forgive You, I Forgive You Not
Have you ever noticed how, just when you are contemplating the start of a new practice you think might be beneficial, suddenly you see references to it everywhere? Everyone you know is trying it, or...
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