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Every stinking holiday!! When I remember holidays of the past, I think of stress. The image that comes to mind is everyone else laughing and having a great time, while I was miserable. I remember many holidays as a child and it was often magical and beautiful, but as an early adult, holidays equaled timesContinue reading “Refueling the inner child after post holiday abuse”

Here I am struggling once again at the art of forgiveness. I am the person who will turn a blind eye just because “Everyone deserves a chance!” or “They had [insert implication] that they are working on!” I have been here before and I remember this feeling of desperately wanting to learn how to forgive.  IContinue reading “Forgiveness is Written in the Sand of Your Heart!”

One of the things that I consistently say about healthy, positive relationships is that it takes two people with both of their feet in it to make it work. When one person is a solo thinker and the other person is thinking as a team and trying to make up for the other person notContinue reading “The tango!”

Exhaustion isn’t just physical but it’s mental and emotional as well. Do you know how many calories I must burn from worrying that because I have an army and I won’t be able to afford college tuition? Exhaustion is never ending, even on a great day. My days are spent worrying about money, bills, myContinue reading “Sense of Control”

After enduring years, possibly decades of negative input about my body, cooking, skills, abilities, sexuality, personality and everything that makes me what I am, my thought patterns become stuck into believing it’s true. I learned to act in certain ways in order to protect myself. I built up mental ways of coping with the impossibleContinue reading “Confidence Pause”