All The Things I Tell Myself
I am not where I imagined I would be at this point in my life. When this topic came up at dinner a while ago, my husband asked me to promise I would not host a self-pity party. I told him I would do no such thing because some lies just cannot be told. Even as…
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#BeReal – LISA LISTWA | hastywords
I’m visiting over at Hasty Words today to talk about what I think it means to #BeReal. And about a good pair of jeans. Not too long ago, a friend told me I was brave. I think the word she said was brave… she admired my chutzpah in posting my whole and actual weight in…
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Self-Love is Hard; Self-Reproach is Easier – A #1000Speak Post
Let me tell you something about self-love: Self-love is very difficult to practice when you’re feeling down on yourself. It should come as no surprise that I’ve opted for the self-compassion route again this #1000Speak link-up – that’s been my focus all along. Of course, it’s been a couple of months since I’ve actually…
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1000 Speak – Reconciliation of the Self
“I suppose no man can violate his own nature.” I would love to tell you those words are mine. I would love to tell you they fell from my consciousness onto the page and I breathed the wisdom of a lifetime into them. I didn’t. They belong to the only mind they can, Ralph Waldo…
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Connecting with Compassion – 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion
1000 Voices Speak for Compassion is coming again! I’m a bit behind in revealing my topic for the May link-up, but I’ve been working on so many things the date kind of escaped me. But here we are, a mere four days away, so now is as good a time as any. Our theme for…
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1000Speak – Nurturing the Self
No one wants to be called selfish. We want people to say that we are generous and other-centered. We want people to call us kind and compassionate. We want to actually be all of these things. We are taught that it is good to be selfless. But we misinterpret that. Look at the word – selfless.…
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1000 Voices Speak for Compassion AGAIN in April
The members of 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion are gearing up for another campaign! This month, 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion is talking about nurturing. On April 20th, we will link up once again to flood the Internet with good and positive posts about nurturing. For my April post, I will talk about nurturing the…
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An Acuteness Of The Senses
I do not make it a habit to use this space for rants and complaints. I am not suggesting that I never talk about things that bother me. Of course I do. But today I’m feeling a bit lousy and I just want to say so. I feel lousy.
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FTSF – I Have No Proudest Moment
I have no proudest moment to share with you. I am terrible with superlatives. Favorite? Best? Proudest? Worst? I am always struck dumb when asked to name only one. After thinking about this for days, I find myself reaching the same conclusion once again. I can not name any one proudest moment.
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#1000 Speak: Step Into Someone Else’s Skin
It was a conversation with my daughter that helped me finally decide. We were talking about a disagreement between her and a classmate. Both parties were upset; neither understood the other’s point of view. As we talked at dinner that night, my daughter began to understand not only what might have caused the other person to act as they did,…
