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We Get Better Together – I Can’t Do It Alone

February 19, 2021

Moving 200 of anything can be exhausting. But moving 200 blog posts proved to be more work than any of us could have predicted. You add in title renaming, [...]

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The Magic of the Non-Negotiable – Getting Off My Keister 5 Days a Week

January 1, 2021

Recovery: Positive Lifestyle Changes

For thirty-five years I could not keep up a workout routine. I would start and stop, start and stop. That all shifted when I made a pledge to walk [...]

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Christmassing in a Pandemic – It’s Time to Re-evaluate the To-Do List

December 4, 2020

It occurred to me on about Tuesday of this week, as Christmas stress began to creep in, that I was in the process of trying to deliver the exact [...]

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When Moving Mountains – Shovel or Backhoe?

November 21, 2020

“God can move mountains, but you have to bring a shovel.” -Anonymous Recovery Quote This is what I think my shovel-mountain evolution has been throughout the course of my [...]

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It Turns Out I’m Not Lazy, I’ve Just Been Swimming With Jeans On

November 20, 2020

When I was a teenager I was taught that depression is a serious condition, and the words, “I’m depressed,” shouldn’t just roll off your tongue. Clinical depression, I was [...]

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Under Prepped and Overdone – Learning to Change by Changing

November 13, 2020

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working… Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will [...]

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Reconciliation – A Love Affair With a Journal

July 31, 2020

Recovery: Positive Lifestyle Changes

Journaling has been a part of my life since 1988. It started when I watched Winona Ryder’s character Veronica Sawyer pour her soul out into the pages of her [...]

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The 3 Reasons I Become Intolerant

July 3, 2020

As we finish up our 16th week of COVID life, the topic of intolerance came up. Surprised? As I see it, there are three reasons why I become intolerant. [...]

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My Not-So Secret Garden – If It Was There Before Corona, It Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger

June 19, 2020

Corona has taken whatever was true about us and made it bigger. Whether we’re looking at our flowers or our weeds, the last three months have shed water and [...]

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The Art of Disappointment: It’s Not You, It’s Me

June 12, 2020

It kind of makes me cringe now, but as I mentioned in Easy Pleasie, I was once a person who was hard to appease. Ironically, however, my mentors were [...]

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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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What’s That Stench? The Smell of Denial

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