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  • Who are You Bringing to This New Year?

    I made no resolutions for this upcoming year; I promised it nothing, hoped on even less, and expect zero from the year…for I now realize it isn't up to a year, an event, a somebody or something to deliver to… Continue reading

  • I Let Myself Go

    In "Codependent No More," by Melody Beatte, she writes about boundaries. ""Set boundaries, but make sure they're our boundaries. The things we are sick of, can't stand, and make threats about, may be clues to some boundaries that we need… Continue reading

  • What we endured.

    From Martha Beck's book, Leaving the Saints "All my life, I'd read and reread a thousand religious epigraphs to the effect that "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  I'd always been told this had… Continue reading

  • A False Appearance Called You.

    Between the comments, a conversation and reading, it came to me that this isn’t unusual this indirect conversations. And in fact, the bigger the ‘secret’ or point the bigger the fear and the consequences or fall out will be. There… Continue reading

  • Spoiled Brat?

    Sarah Ban Breathnach writes in her book, “Moving On,” let’s take a fresh look at the word that saps our strength often: Scared. “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” wonders Toni… Continue reading

  • Find Their Own Way…

    The battle of the wills end when you allow the other to have free will, it is pretty hard to fight with freedom. The tighter you hold and the more you force, the less the other person can feel and… Continue reading

  • Free to be you.

    At the end of Dr. Jill Bolte’s book, “My Stroke of Insight”, she writes what she needed the most to heal, and I too would like to share what was most beneficial to me as I made my way out… Continue reading

  • Perfectly you!

    The reason I began this blog or writing for that matter, was that I found myself upside down in an upright world, my insides didn’t match reality, my dysfunction led me around the world not me. This me, I called… Continue reading

  • My feelings are me.

    In reading, “A Course in Weight Loss” by Marianne Williamson, it came to me how we are so untruthful with our feelings, so neglectful, so mean, how we run away ducking and hiding, how the planet at large doesn’t like… Continue reading

  • A new you emerges…

    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” ~Tuli Kupferberg Somehow this quote paints a scene of great Art, of stepping out of the box and being presented with a wondrous new world. In my experience breaking an old pattern requires… Continue reading