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December 19, 2019
Mueller Time
Because of the experiences I’ve seen Rachel go through, I have a heightened sensitivity to watching people treat others with blatant disrespect.
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Guest Posts, Mental HealthWalk This Way
If you’d told me last summer that I’d be training for a half-marathon this summer, I would have laughed hard and loud. Not because it was funny, per se, but because of my mental illness and the crippling grip it has on me.
December 17, 2019Share this:
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Grief, Guest Posts, healingI Made Peace With My Body And Found My Soul
I could have gone to the gym every day to expel that pent up desire, anxiety and anger. But a completely numb body is easier to manage than a body that is partially awake.
December 15, 2019Share this:
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Activism, Guest Posts, Owning It!A Female Fighter
As I drive, I think to myself, maybe I expect too much out of friends, but I don’t think so. I expect a friend to have my back in times of tragedy. After all, that’s what friends do.
December 12, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, Starting Over, Young VoicesYellow Bath Towels
Your new home is made your parents’ RV in their backyard. Finally. A place for you and your belongings. A place that you can freely be without being in the way. A feeling that you haven’t had in a while. Because you had a roommate for the last five months.
December 10, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, No Bullshit MotherhoodOne Morning With Amy
When a couple of attempts to correct her resulted in angry shouts of “No, you are not right! I am right!” I surrendered to her certainty.
December 8, 2019Share this:
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Family, Grief, Guest PostsGrief, Unfolding
Her illness and mortality have bitch-slapped me into understanding and appreciation. My mother’s killer screams Wake up! Don’t you realize the gift you’ve been given? I do.
December 5, 2019Share this:
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Guest Posts, moving onWho Are You – A Mad Libs Identity
Over-strategizing becomes a roadblock to living life fully. At times it’s best to live life with blanks, uncertainties if you will, so that some miracle can come and fill them in.
December 3, 2019Share this:
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death, Grief, Guest PostsBreathwork
Now I mourn my mother through breath. Each morning I lie on a mat in a hot room and squeeze my eyes shut and breathe her in. Or breathe her out. Yes, breath is supposed to anchor me in my body but I use it to exit my body, just as my mother taught me. I rise to the celling of the yoga room, alone and untethered.
December 1, 2019Share this:
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Compassion, Family, Grief, Guest PostsI Didn’t Love Her Until The Day She Died
I didn’t sit there because I loved her. I sat there because I didn’t want to watch her die alone in a room full of people who should have been there holding her hand.
November 24, 2019Share this:
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Addiction, Grief, Guest PostsWhat I Wanted To Say
What I wanted to say was, It took him years to die overnight. He was an alcoholic. Drank himself to death at 47.
November 22, 2019Share this:
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cancer, Family, Guest PostsA Walk in the Park
“Tim’s bothering me,” Luke’s message said. “If he doesn’t stop, I’m going to blow his fucking head off.”
I called Luke back. “I know about Tim bothering you. He bothers me too. But I thought I should point out that Tim is dead.”November 20, 2019Share this:
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empty nest, Guest Posts, motherhoodUndone
The anxiety of not knowing the extent of her injuries numbed my limbs and tightened my chest, and I could not concentrate on the tasks I needed to accomplish. Neither could I overcome the fear of actually finding out what had happened.
November 18, 2019Share this:
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Eating/Food, emotions, Guest PostsNoise
There is nothing wrong with self-improvement. Not one damn thing. But are all these books, podcasts, and blogs really aimed at self-improvement, or do they sell the idea that the way someone is doing something is the way we should all do it?
November 17, 2019Share this:
