I was overwhelmed. After a string of huge life events the previous few years, then adding a new child, new home and new job into the mix, I wasn’t in a good place by any stretch. I was […]
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“Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls I survived the agony of child sexual abuse. Twice. Once at the age of
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“When life changes to be harder, change yourself to be stronger.” – Unknown It’s deeply frustrating, isn’t it? You’re on a roll in life, but an unexpected change in your health alters your path. Not a little change
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“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne Well, here you are. Your life is not going as planned. Maybe you’re stuck in a rut, unable to take that essential next step. Maybe your life
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We’ve all heard someone who has said that phrase, or a phrase similar to it like, “If that happens, I’m just gonna kill myself” or “Kill me now” etc. Phrases like this are just in our everyday conversations,
In one respect it seems like ages ago, but in another it feels like it was just yesterday. There I was in my perfect little life, in a career that I loved (I was an enforcement officer for
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A few years ago I was working full time, pregnant with my second child, and generally following my life plan, when suddenly, without warning I was confronted with an experience that took me into the deepest levels of
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy We’ve all been there – making resolutions about changes we want to make in our life or goals we want to
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My writing career began at the age of ten as I was sitting in my walk-in closet writing in my journal. My mother had given me my first journal to help me cope with the loss of my
“Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” – Cedric Bledsoe A few months ago, a former co-worker sent me a message via Linkedin. When I read her message, my initial reaction was confusion. Here’s what she wrote: “I envy
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“We forget that, historically, people have eaten for a great many reasons other than biological necessity. Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our
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