Category: relationships
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: Day 2 – A Message to the Mind
Letter from A Better Me 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series Part I: A Journey of Awareness What Holds Us Back: The Unstable Foundation Day 2: A Message to the Mind Dear Mind, You are not me. You are a combination of generations of behavior patterns, my past, fears that I’m fed, and my interpretations…
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90-Day A Better Me Series: Day 2- Understanding the Journey of Awareness
Part I Month 1: A JOURNEY OF AWARENESS What Holds Us Back: The Unstable Foundation Day 2: Understanding the Journey of Awareness “If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?” –Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Foreversp. 254 When our foundation…
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90-Day A Better Me Series: Day 1-A Commitment for 2019
Welcome 2019 90-Day A Better Me Series Day 1: Commitment for 2019 Each year I pick something to focus on. Last year my journey was about staying present. This year is about passing on what I’ve learned and assisting individuals to find their self-worth and get past the blocks that have been holding them back.…
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: Day 1 – Welcome to the Journey
Letters From A Better Me 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series Day 1: Welcome to the Journey Dear Readers, Welcome to the journey of A Better Me. This letters piece of the journey is about connecting to the material in the 90-Day A Better Me Series. One of the things I’ve learned in my experience…
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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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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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5 Ways to Stop Abusing Ourselves: How to Bring Healthy Relationships into Our lives
If you are one of the many people who have wondered what a healthy relationship looks like, more than likely you are guilty of abusing yourself. Why do I say this? Because healthy people don’t have to ask the question, they just have healthy relationships. This isn’t just an outer appearance healthy; this is the…
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How I Grew From My Toxic Relationships
If you are reading this, you probably either have been involved in or had a front row seat to watch someone else’s toxic relationship unfold. I have had the privilege of experiencing both, and yes I meant privilege. My toxic relationships are what got me healthy. It was like a boot camp for emotional/mental health.…
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The Break-Up Playlist
Introduction I wrote this piece in April 2014. In a Creative Non-Fiction Workshop at Eckerd College, I was surrounded by a group of amazing writers. Me, a Human Development major who was NOT used to writing creatively. My college experience was full of technical writing and was pretty stiff. This piece came from a VERY…
From A Loving Place 