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How to Suffer Less When You’re Waiting for Answers

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~Buddha Some mornings I wake before dawn and lie still, listening for signs that the house is [...]

The Wonder and Heartbreak of Life Under Our Sky

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though [...]

What Happened When I Stopped Managing Every Reaction

“Peace is not the absence of resistance. It is learning to stop judging yourself for being human.” ~Unknown At the time of writing this, I [...]

How My Need to Clean Was a Childhood Coping Skill

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~E.E. Cummings When I was a little girl, I had the smallest bedroom [...]

What I Learned from a Lifetime of Feeling Different

“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.” ~Henry David Thoreau I’ve spent most of my life feeling like I was standing [...]

Why Being Ignored Causes Such Deep Pain and Damage

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ~Laurell K. Hamilton My older sister [...]

How I Reframed Letting Go So I Could Move on from My Painful Past

We are truly free when we let go of the thought that the past could or should have been any different than it was. This [...]

What Was Really Behind My “Laziness” and What I Know Now

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~Carl Rogers I remember sitting on the living [...]

The Hidden Survival Patterns I Mistook for Brokenness

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~Rumi I grew up in a council house in the 1970s, in a world where [...]

How to Be More Present Through Sound, Silence, and Stillness

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ~Karl Lagerfeld I used to think I was a good listener. I could hold eye contact, [...]