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Photo by Dimitry Zub on Pexels.com I want to share with a few observations around our beliefs and how we seem to be wielding them around quite a bit. We’re all doing it on some level. Let’s take a step back and inspect them from a place of neutrality and hopefully, a solid dose of …
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Photo by Elly Fairytale on Pexels.com I want to share that I have been diving deeper into my yoga practice recently. I haven’t been as consistent with it as I would like to be, so I’m setting out to change that. The consistency with which I show up for myself in that way. Maybe you’ve …
Photo by Jackson David on Pexels.com I want to dive into depression today. In fact, I’d like to try a different approach with it because it’s a topic that we all tend to dance around. I have had a close and toxic relationship with depression over my lifetime and I now have a new perspective. …
What do you believe makes a good mom? We need to start exploring our beliefs around what it means to be a good mom. What meanings have we consciously or unconsciously assigned to this role in particular? It’s such a complicated one, because most of us strive to NOT be like our own mothers! We …
I've noticed my son saying, "No, I'll look stupid," in response to so many simple requests lately. It has been a bit of an awakening to realize that he cares so much about how other people see him. There are times I'm fascinated in my observation of the lengths we humans will go to in …
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Things just keep getting better as the “back to school” season rapidly approaches. Spoiler alert: the global pandemic is still in full swing. Not only is the US not improving, it’s getting worse. Please don’t come at me with statistics comparing COVID-19 to the seasonal flu. That’s not what this is about. I want to …
I want to take a little time to explain to my fellow white Americans today why we feel afraid to speak up and speak out about, and specifically condemn, racism in our country. There are a multitude of reasons, of course. For many, we simply don’t know what we don’t know. We have what we …
White people. Do something. I see my black friends say they are watching. Waiting to see who speaks for them. I see my white friends caution me about speaking on a topic I know nothing about. Tread carefully. I saw the post shared over and over in my social media feed on Friday, with that …
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As our nation begins to slowly reopen state by state, I’m noticing a new flavor of heightened anxiety within our society. I find it fascinating. There appear to be two distinct camps with varying shades in between. There’s the Return to Normal camp that holds the belief that we should be able to go anywhere …
For the month of May, it has been my goal to tackle the topics of some of the most difficult emotions that we face. I thought it would be easier than it has been. Quite honestly, I've had to dig for the "best of the worst", so to speak. It's true that I could just …
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