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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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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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Perpetuating a Cycle That I Would Break
I’m not sharing this to put down my parents, but rather to show that hope and love can break harmful generational cycles. At my age (over 40), my parents were not doing well. My biological father had abandoned me as a baby. He was right at age 40 when I was born, and he left…
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Sharing the Gospel at Life’s End
warning… ⚠️complexities _ahead My stepfather, who is 86 years old, is now at home with the same issues. Issues that his doctors say he will not recover from. He has a collapsed lung, several heart problems, and trouble breathing. I asked a friend of mine, who is a nurse, why they would send him home…
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Insomnia, Sleep, and the Five Things I NOW Do for Fun
initiating… sharing_sequence I’ve had three good nights of sleep, and one okay night of sleep, in a row. And that’s the most I’ve slept this month. For some reason, insomnia fell upon me in 2026 and would. not. leave. And to get those few nights of good sleep, I started doing a few different things…
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A Long Healthy Life
initiating… thinking/modeinstalling : good_healthoutput > aspirations As I’ve gotten older, my views on living a long life have changed. When I was young, I was never particularly scared of death. Now that I’m a mom, a wife, a friend, a part of my community… Well, it’s different. So many people would be devastated if I…
Dear Quiet 