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you & me

Our Symphony Has Stopped: A Letter To My Lost Love.

Your new life is in a home I'll never visit, filled with furniture I'll never see. But there amongst the books and trinkets, amidst the coffee cups and sheets, there are traces of me. Of us. An echo of laughter. An imprint of interlaced fingers. An unfinished argument. A chapter that never  ...

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wisdom

How To Quit… And Why You Should.

The temporary 'high', or brief relief that we experience from the wine, cigarette or doughnut is really just a feeling of 'less bad', which is very different from actually 'feeling good'. Buddhists call this confusing suffering for happiness.

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you & me

It’s Okay Not To Be Okay.

You don’t have to hold it all together, even if you’re usually the strong one. You need to let go of trying to do that more than anyone. Try it out, even a little at a time, and notice that you’re still safe and you’re still loved when you fall apart.

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yoga

First Impressions Of Yoga: What It’s Really Like.

As you put your shoes back on wondering how often the floor in the studio is washed, hoping you didn’t catch some foot fungus or worse, you feel something new. When you reach outside and breathe in the fresh air, you notice something is different. You’re not sure what. Maybe it’s just a  ...

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troublemakers

Don’t Let Your Anger Feed the Fire.

When someone tells us it is okay to be mad, that only feeds the fire. They are souls who don’t understand the ramifications of that energy, and they are seeking justification for poor behavior... I am anticipating my own backlash to what I had to say above, but my wish is for some thought to be  ...

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troublemakers

Headsick: I Am A Survivor.

The position I find myself in is contrary to the person that I know to be me. I am repulsed, yet unable to move, held captive by invisible enemies. Each of my senses is assaulted by my very state of existence. I can do only three things with any success: think, cry, and sleep. It has been  ...

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smile

Happy Is The New Black.

You would think that after successfully losing the equivalent of two full kegs of beer, and running like 'Forrest Gump' for the past year and a half, a lady might feel better about the possibility of new bathing suit choices, and earnestly hope to don something colorful, sporty, and  ...

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