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How To Do The Scary Thing In 10 Simple Steps

The steps are simple, the action is not. If it is, then you’re not doing the Scary Thing. The Scary Thing makes you squirm and try to slither away from it. The Scary Thing is begging you—the real you—to come outside and play, to take…

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Nurture vs. Coddle

Something’s been tugging at me since writing Choosing the Dance last month, where I chose getting out of bed over sleeping in. I’ve been wondering whether I look at sleeping in as more of a nurturing thing or a coddling thing. With a rational mind, sleeping in that day would have been enabling the sleep [...]

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Out of the Woods (and It Gets Better)

I wish you out of the woods And into the picture with me I wish you over the moon Come out of the question and be ~ Sinéad Lohan, Out of The Woods Out of the Woods I don’t wish that the trees would part for you. I don’t wish that the weeds wouldn’t grow. [...]

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Honoring the Fallow

I sat in the car sharing my experience of the previous two months and Mynde listened. When I finished my story, she simply said, “Sounds like the fallow’s been important for you.” We continued to talk, while I silently pondered the meaning of fallow and how it related to my current state in life as [...]

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Holiday Solstice

We are told that there is strength in numbers. That united we will stand, and divided we will fall. That two is better than one. That being alone is difficult. That no one should be alone. That alone is for suckers. Especially during the Holidays. I have consciously and unconsciously believed this crap for years. [...]

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My Choice (or Emotional Poverty) and The Girl Effect

My clock is ticking. My girl clock. And not in the way you’re probably thinking. My girl clock that still remembers what it was like to be twelve years old and scared, not knowing what life lay ahead of me. I did not grow up in poverty, unless you count emotional health as wealth. And [...]

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NaNoWriMo. I’m In. And Out (of some other things).

As part of my project to meaningfully unclutter and get back to the things that and people who matter to me, I’m diving head first into National Novel Writing Month. I’m making time for writing and blogging, but only the stuff that can’t wait to get out of me. I’m making time for friends and [...]