AFFIRMATIONS: YOU ARE NOT LYING TO YOURSELF; YOU ARE COMMITTING Oct 10, 2019 Recently I was having a discussion with my husband about affirmations. He printed off my 52 affirmations for a stronger connection with Self, God, Family and each other and was re-repeating one of them. We discussed it together through out the day, […]
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Pain is part of the healing process, it allows us to know that there is something going on. In the case of grief it reminds us of our love for the person we do not have in our lives. In this case it can get easier in our lives, but only when we allow ourselves to mourn, and allow the healing of love to occur.
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Remembering and the Process of Change In one of my more recent posts (which you can read here), I wrote about the heartbreak I experienced in losing a child through miscarriage. I wrote about how through that trial I allowed myself to become socially cut off, I still interacted with people and went through the
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TENDER MERCIES EVEN IN HEARTACHE MARCH 18, 2019 To read about what I learned from my anxiety and grief click on these links: anxiety and grief Jenny from @brokentobeautiful on Instagram shares about a Japanese art called Kintsugi where broken pottery is mended with gold lacquer. The result is beautiful. Through this process something beautiful is created out
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When I was 15 years old I had an experience happen that changed my entire family. It guided me on the path that has led me to where I am today. My younger brother passed away. Sam had multiple health complications and was not supposed to live the 11 years that he was able to
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I am someone who strongly believes that God knows us very well. He knows us so well that he knows exactly the trials and experiences that we need to have in order to grow, in order to become the people we have the greatest potential to become. The trials and experiences that we have are
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With the start of a new year, goal setting is high on everyone’s minds. It is a new beginning and as such a perfect time to start changing your life. I just hope that as you think about the coming year, as you set those goals that you want to achieve, to accomplish, that you
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My family went through a lot when I was 15. My younger brother passed away and there was a lot of extra stress on top of that. I remember one time during that year when my mom pulled me out of school. She took me hiking in the nearby national park. It was a wonderful
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Being a parent and constantly having a child want your attention, climbing all over you and sometimes talking incessantly can really wear on an introvert’s battery, it does mine. On especially difficult days, I am barely holding my frustration inside (if I’m even holding it inside) by the end of the day and seriously needing
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Not all introverts are shy. Not all highly sensitive introverts are shy either. Shyness is, to put it simply, anxiety in social situations and while there may be a correlation at times with introverts and highly sensitive people, it does not mean that if you are an introvert and or highly sensitive that you are
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