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Aging Gracefully: Becoming The Woman I Always Wanted To Be.

We are given this human vessel to look after, and it's our responsibility to nourish it with excellent self-care. Beyond the physical, it's the feeling of aliveness that we need to nurture to stay youthful and enthusiastic about life.

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Thank You For Helping Me Learn What Is Right Through All The Wrong.

As difficult as it is for me to admit, I also owe myself a debt of gratitude. Because I survived. I made my way out. I am still here. With my words and my voice and my truth. And those are things that can never be taken from me. I was forced to dig deep to find the resilience and perseverance I ...

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I Believe In Life Before Death.

Many people, very early on, settle into a relationship out of fear, weakness, complacency, a lack of self-worth or understanding... the list goes on.

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What Are You Worth? It’s Time To Find Out.

By Courtney Marie Schmidt

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I Am Weird And Lovable And Kind: Being Numb Is No Longer An Option.

Poetry pours through the splitting holes and music runs through my hair. I chase the shadows scurrying and learn to silence the critical epilogue. Knowing, we are not an ending but living in a perpetual healing.

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Dealing With Guilt & Shame: A Body Doesn’t Lie.

In her internal onslaught, she needed to meet face to face with her antagonists. She opened an ancient double-hinged door. The heaviness was tremendous. The circular iron rings pressed cruelly into her palms. She remained focused on a vision branded into her being and tattooed on her soul.

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39 Things I Believe When It All Seems Unreal.

My list started small and kept growing and will continue to grow. This space of calm is like the wingspan of a great blue heron, gliding across the stillness of a channel. It expands and releases and touches, creating ripples to the four corners of a universal web. Our effort to keep pushing ...

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How 1,001 Dragonflies & Tangerine Sunsets Serenaded My Soul.

As much as my soul is quenched by learning and exploring, it equally treasures a silent abyss where I can read for the joy of reading. I devour the smell and feel the delicate moth-like pages turn. I become the words and images. I am the book.

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What is Faith: Lessons in Intention and Abundance

Right now I, for the second time in my life, am learning how to pray. As I reflect on my previous incarnation as a little girl sitting at the right hand of my mother, prayer was terrible and frightening. She had a fever for the Pentecostal tradition that caused her to yell out Hallelujah during ...

you & me

When Love Is Real And When It’s Not.

I am strong. I am wise. I am intelligent. I am free. No one can take that away from me.

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