Take the Leap
This is definitely a book that I plan on coming back to, once I figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
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Seasons of Grief
Autumn is a season of grief. The days get shorter, and the nights get longer. Just like childhood, the curfew says to come home before dark. The holiday season starts to rev up, but some of us aren’t so ready to celebrate and be merry. Some of us are still in that season of grief, […]
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Boundaries, Pendulum Swings, & the Science Museum
When I was a little girl I spent a lot of time at the Science Museum of Virginia. My dad worked there, and anytime we got a day off of school I went to work with him. I loved spending days there with him, especially around the holidays. They had the entire place done up […]
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It’s Only Fear
The number one thing my therapist asks me during session is, "What are you so afraid of?" I usually ramble about all the reasons I should be afraid, and half the time she says, "So what!?" Then I start crying because I know deep down that she is right.
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The Fear with No Name
No one tells you growing up that if you don't deal with your emotions, they will come back to bite you in the ass. My emotions did just that exact thing to me.
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Good Job, Baby Girl
We can be so quick to blame them when sometimes (not every time), it truly is our own judgments that are getting in the way of our happiness. I could have held on to that first moment of disgust and anger, but I chose another way. I chose to look at things from a different perspective.
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Mental Health Resources
Facilities Local to Richmond, VA Outpatient Facilities FIG TREE THERAPY They are a Christian-based therapy office that specializes in EMDR. (Read my story with EMDR here.) You can totally opt out of any religious discussion. They are not pushy about it at all, but if you want to include that in your therapy, you can. […]
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Lessons Learned from Dad
What I am now starting to realize is that I was so stuck on this concept of finding the "artist" inside of me that I was missing it all together. I had this whole illusion of art being something tangible that you can hold or hang on a wall. That was what I understood to be "art."
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Sex-ducation
If you conform to gender roles, you will be happy. That's what they said. That's what society would instill in us to be "right" and "good." That's what advertisers would sell. Women conformed to these rules of thought, and so did men.
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WTF is Mindfulness? And How Can I Get Some?
Have you ever just sat in that place between sleep and awake? Sometimes I feel euphoric. Sometimes I feel so tired physically that I can’t open my eyes, but my brain starts firing thoughts like an old arcade shooter game. Pew! Pew! Pew! I can’t make it stop. Meanwhile my husband can literally watch paint […]
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