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One Way to Stop Blaming My Husband for My Unhappiness

May 17, 2019

For whatever reason, I had it in my head that a great deal of my happiness should come from my marriage. Because of this, when I wasn’t happy I’d [...]

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Baking – What It’s Taught Me About Being Both an Ingredient and a Baker

May 3, 2019

A while ago I read a passage in a book that explained teamwork using a baking metaphor. It explained that everyone is an ingredient in the loaf of bread, [...]

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One Post at a Time – Confessions’ 100th Post

April 19, 2019

One week, one picture, one paragraph, one sentence, one word, and one letter at a time, brought me to today—my 100th blog post. While I truly can’t believe I’ve [...]

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Teasey Pleasies – A Solution to Taming the Unpleasable

February 15, 2019

After last week’s blog Easy Pleasey, I got to thinking about the Teasey Pleasies in life. Those people who make me believe I truly can please them if I [...]

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Easy Pleasey – Keeping Check of My Pleasability Meter

February 8, 2019

One thing I have to keep in check is my pleasability meter. For a long time, without even realizing it, I was hard to please. I just had these [...]

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Where My Feet Are – Time Tells the Truth

January 11, 2019

When I’m interested in changing anything in my life, I get into this hyper-driven state of research. And now that there are so many resources, I can article-blog-book-movie-social media [...]

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3 Ways to Take Better Care of Myself

January 4, 2019

Those kids got back to the safety of school just in time. Mama was starting to struggle with kindness during those last 48 hours. Which provided, yet another, opportunity [...]

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The Magic Ingredient to Getting and Staying Healthy

December 28, 2018

I’ve heard it explained that food cravings derive from an attempt to either quell an emotion or fill an emptiness. For years I knew I was using food as [...]

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All I Want for Christmas II – Getting Rid of a Toxic To Do List

December 21, 2018

My personal tendency is to get anywhere and everywhere, and do everything as efficiently and as quickly as humanly possible. As a result, I’ve lived most of my life [...]

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How? or Why? – What People are REALLY Asking

November 16, 2018

When someone asks me how I’m doing, I feel loved and cared for. When someone asks me why I’m doing something, it can quickly feel like an evaluation or [...]

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For Every Season There’s a Reason

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My Twelve Steps of Parenting – Things I’ve Learned in the Last Eighteen Years

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What Do You Really Want? Truly Listening to My Inner Adolescent

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Do I Protect the Offender or the Offended? Standing Up for What I Believe In

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