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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 for [...]

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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 an [...]

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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 in [...]

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“Slow Me Down Lord”

December 14, 2018

Two years ago, after my brother passed away, this poem was found in his car. A close friend had it framed for G-Man and I. As my head was racing [...]

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3 Reasons to Change the Scale I Get on Everyday

November 9, 2018

With the season of eating quickly approaching, I got to thinking about the scale. My scale lives up on a shelf in my closet. I stopped regularly using it years [...]

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Explanations vs. Excuses – Am I Using Stress as an Excuse

November 2, 2018

From a young age, it bothered me when people would make excuses and speak for their children, “Oh he’s shy, but thank you for having him.” Being shy is an [...]

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Busy – Do You Feel Adult Peer Pressure to Be Frantic?

October 26, 2018

Being too busy makes me so agitated and pissy that I’ve had several serious come to Jesus realizations about how much I can physically do as one human being. But [...]

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Right Waiting – 3 Tricks to Deal with People who Always Run Late

October 5, 2018

Last week I wrote about the change in perspective I had with the people who run late in my life in Left Waiting. I thought it was important to mention [...]

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Left Waiting – Coming to Peace With a Husband Who Always Runs Late

September 28, 2018

There used to be nothing that drove me crazier than waiting for my husband. He used to run late constantly and I was left staring at the clock almost every [...]

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Switch to Dimmers – Getting Rid of Black and White Thinking

September 21, 2018

This week was a particularly full week. There were a lot of balls in the air: deadlines, another day off from school, schedule changes, etc. What struck me though was [...]

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