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Hurricane Irma: A Single Mom’s Unplanned Road Trip
Growing up in Southwest Florida, I’ve experienced quite a few hurricanes. I lived in Naples during Andrew, the one that did so much damage and the reports keep comparing Irma to, saying this one is much worse. In my early twenties, I lived in Oak Island, North Carolina. I stuck around for a hurricane coming…
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How Researching Narcissistic Personality Disorder Opened My Eyes
I was once asked to write a piece on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) by another website. My stomach instantly got tied up in knots. A numbing feeling permeated through me. I didn’t promise, but I figured I would try. I didn’t know what the research on the topic would bring to the surface; too close…
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Breaking Free From My Unhealthy Relationships: Finding Love through the Darkness
I am no master. I have survived some horrible situations and lost much of my innocence way too young. I still fight, cry, and struggle through some of life’s twists and turns. Here is what I know, life is full of lessons and I have survived them all. Some of my deepest scars have helped…
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Looking Through the Mirror
A child looks into the mirror as a thousand of messages go through his or her head. Questions, thoughts, and statements go into the mirror. As they bounce back a reality is created. How that child treats people is all in what happens in that mirror. As time goes on, the statements sometimes will start…
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Waking Up to Life’s Lessons
6:00 AM the alarm goes off; another day. Is my daughter going to start with a meltdown as I try to do the same daily routine of getting her ready for school? What will it be about? Is it going to be the outfit, taking a shower, food, cleaning her room, reading, or just simply…
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Bring Your Child to Work Day: A Piece by 10 Year Old Alyssa Wolff
Be Brave and Know you are Special You are very special no matter what people say. We all have special talents, we just need help letting them out! The number one objective is to be brave and follow your heart. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being…
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Enjoying My Happily Ever Now
This year for my birthday I received a beautiful surprise, my boyfriend of almost three years took me ring shopping. Wait, I know where some of your heads are going, because most of the people I said this to went there too… this is about happily ever now, not happily ever after. We went from…
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Signs on a Spiritual Journey: A Message From 1998
Life has many interesting twists and turns. After my dad died in 2011, I found a free writing I had done and given to him. I’ve read it a couple time in the last few years and didn’t have any acknowledgment of when I wrote it. Many of the concepts I still believed, but I…
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Stop Comparing and Start Living!
Have you ever caught yourself thinking or saying, “Well, if I had their life, I could…?” I know I have. I used to give myself that excuse. I have also heard people use my life as their excuse. There is something we are not looking at inside if we are being critical or comparing on…
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In the Chaos of Change
We should be grateful for all situations that make us the most uncomfortable, because without them we would not know there is something unhealed in us. -Ken Wapnick We all have our own truths. They come from further back than our own lives take us. Many of them are created before we’re even born. They…
From A Loving Place 