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Is a little chaos actually good for us? A little chaos that throws us off our daily routine is almost necessary for sanity in this world. Just recently I have re-learned that no matter how much planning, organization and communication you have something can go awry and that’s okay and it’s good to understand that’s…
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My mom has had the same email signature for as long as I can remember: Be as persistent as the sun. If you asked me to title a chapter of my life “The Hard Years”, I’m not sure I could point to one stretch of time and say that’s it. Life has taught me that…
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I’ve spent most of my life being harsh with myself, and for a long time I didn’t even recognize it as harshness. It felt like the truth. It felt like the only thing standing between me and disaster. I am the first-born daughter who followed the rules, got the straight A’s, got into University, and…
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Something my soul has been craving but didn’t realize was writing. Writing has been an escape throughout my life. A way to dig a bit deeper and put my thoughts down on paper. Throughout the hardest times I have found myself searching for different ways to make me feel better, to quiet the noise, the…
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That’s never been the problem. My problem is the exact opposite. I have a tendency to take action. To speak exactly what I am feeling, exactly what I believe whether I or anyone around me would like me to or not. I wasn’t always this way. Over the last maybe a decade or so, I…
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To be completely honest, anywhere its illegal for me to exist. At least exist “out” with my wife. In so many places, just that could warrant our arrest. It’s a foreign concept to some but is the underlying question of every travel destination my wife and I even start to consider. Even within our own…
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Describe something you learned in high school. In fourth grade, my teacher asked the class on the first day something that has stuck with me. Not a direct quote but something like “You can tell a lot about how prepared someone is by how they walk, if they walk with their head down they’re distracted.…
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Thank you, Jenny Baker. For years I’ve been in and out of therapy. Literally, like a decade. Most of the time it was talk therapy, which would be great for a couple of sessions until it wouldn’t. It really wasn’t until I was joking with a friend about my “OCD traits” that it started to…
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Not in the way people mean they say they’ve had a long day or week. In the way where your brain never actually stops. Where rest isn’t really rest because even when your body is supposed to rest your mind is ten places else, checking, looping, managing, controlling. Always in my head. I did not…
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Come with me inside my head as I do the one thing I haven’t checked off my list: get to know myself.