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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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