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Today I Finally Understood Why God Feels So Scary: And How AI Helped Me See It Clearly
I was journaling in the morning, and had a big Aha! moment. Everyone is still asleep when I wake up, so I took my new insight to my favorite AI to see what I could glean from it. What happened next was… pretty interesting! đź’Ž Me: I’m still so hungry for self-care, a little breathing…
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What I Learned During That Strange and Difficult Time
Where I live, the changes made are no longer in place. I can’t think of one rule or expectation that stuck around after all of… that. I did learn something extremely important during that isolating, uncertain, and strange time: To give my life meaning, no matter what. Right before the pandemic, I did some traveling,…
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Relief CAN Be Part of Grief
My stepfather (86) was in and out of the hospital for much of 2025. In 2026, his health took a turn for the worse. Because he denied hospice, he was suffering. A lot. For weeks, my mom would text me that he was at the hospital and would not make it. Then a couple of…
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Life Update and Future Plans for This Blog (No, I’m Not Leaving!)
I really miss reading everyone’s blogs, but I’ve been avoiding my phone. While my family had the flu, my mother was continually texting me that my stepfather (86) was going down in health, at the hospital, that he wasn’t going to make it. Then a day or two later she’d text, “He’s back at home…
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Feeling Guilty for Wanting Alone Time as a Mom
My kid was sick for a week, then I got his flu and got sick for a week, and now pms is knocking at my door. And I feel so guilty because yesterday, I just wanted some time alone. Away from toys. Away from children’s songs and TV. Away from being asked constantly to do…
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Why Big Achievements Don’t Silence the Critical Voice in Your Mind and How You CAN Shut It Up
Your accomplishments may be extraordinary. You may have written books, earned a degree, had a child, or created a career for yourself. But the voice of the inner critic is still there. That’s because this critical voice doesn’t actually come from failure. It comes from critical parents or a similar authority figure in your childhood. This person was…
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It Wasn’t the Experience, It Was My Reaction to it That Helped Me Grow
Trigger Warning: talk of abuse from parents, including Narcissistic abuse, weapons, SA, and animal cruelty. That’s a heck of a trigger warning, eh? But I needed to add it, because I don’t want to make anyone’s reading experience an unpleasant one. I want everyone to know what they’re going to read in the next few…
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Sick Days Are Rest Days
Well, we’ve finally caught the cold that has been going around. Which isn’t hard to do when you have a little one under 6 yrs old x-] We’ve been blessed to have avoided all the big illnesses this winter. We really haven’t been sick at all until now. And now? It’s time to rest. Today…
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Are You Seriously This Great?? My Favorite People to Be Around
It would be too easy to say “my family,” because truly, they are my favorite people to be around! So, I’ll speak about a group of people who blew my mind by being who they are. I wasn’t a Christian in my teens, twenties, and even most of my thirties. That’s just not how I…
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My Super Useful Black Sneakers
I’ve worn lots of shoes… and no, that’s not meant to be a Forrest Gump quote! :-] I have, and lots of styles. When I had a baby, that baby grew up to walk around – actually, pretty much run around everywhere (not unlike Forrest Gump…) so I had to change my shoe style pronto!…
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