Tag: healing
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Dark Thoughts
I woke up from a bad dream–a really bad one–and my anxiety immediately went through the roof. Why is this? Why can’t I get control over it? Why can my conscious mind not reason away the doubts and fears created by my subconscious mind? Why do I allow the dark thoughts of night to seep…
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Eat Lunch Alone
Over several decades, I spent time in Hollywood learning how to look and sound and be everything that the entertainment industry compelled me to be, in order to be successful. It turned out to be a total crock of sh*t! There was a book that became popular which compelled people to never dine alone. Its…
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So I Left
Photo Credit: Jim Towns Today marks fifteen years since I began my crawl to freedom from an eighteen-year abusive relationship. People who know me, have heard me mention this before but most people don’t know why I left or what led up to me leaving. I have never told this story before. Every time I…
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Get Back Up
Do you know what a Virginia opossum, a Hognose snake, and some rabbits have in common? Their default defense mechanism, when fearing/feeling attacked, is to “play dead”. As humans, the inclination toward this behavior can be compelling but the end result is usually not so favorable. While many of us want to avoid conflict and…
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Give Me Something
Some of the ugliest people in the world thrive in the format of online trolling. They can anonymously do to others what I imagine others have done to them in real life. It’s true that “hurt people, hurt people” but I feel that enlightened observation has been overused and misused. Just because someone has been…
