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I have taken a week away from my blog as I, like I'm sure so many of you are, have been living in a somewhat frozen state as of late. The world seems surreal with empty streets, no personal contact, and a constant level of anxiety that is palpable. I have been putting articles I …
Continue reading "The Heaviness of Grief and Finding Meaning"
"People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible." - Tom Vilsack It is a scary world out there for me right now. Partially, because I live with anxiety on a regular basis. Add on to that, the fact that I live with asthma and …
"Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life." - Wess Stafford Sometimes, I get overly tied up in semantics. I will read a word or hear someone say something, and get tied up on questioning what that particular word means to me. I think that makes sense …
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck I have had a brief hiatus from writing my blog because I went away …
Continue reading "The Highs and Lows of Travelling with a Disability"
"The moon doesn't consider one phase better than another; she just glows, equally stunning at each turn. Why should we be any different?" - Cristen Rodgers This past weekend I turned 45. Aging really doesn't bother me. I really do embrace aging and getting to know myself better each and every year. There seems to be …
"Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new type of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation." - Leah Raeder As someone who is trained in Reiki, I am very well aware of the theory of energy and how our bodies can absorb the energy around us. We also give off energy to other …
"Down time is where we become ourselves...a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity." - Anna Quindlen Today is the first day in my little neck of the woods that is going to rise out of the -30 to -50 windchill weather I have been …
“To return to the root is to find peace. To find peace is to fulfill one’s destiny.” — Tao Te Ching Choosing ease and actually finding it are two entirely different things. In my last post, I wrote about a practice that I do every new year of choosing a word to focus on for …
"My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that which misses me was never meant for me." - Iman Al-Shafi'i Every year, I start out with a word that I choose to guide my life for that year. I think of things that I wish for that …
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man had plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens As the year comes to a close, I have a tradition of spending some time acknowledging all of the things I am grateful for. Some years are harder than others. …
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