Arguments may not be the first thing you think of when caring for a loved one, but it is one of those really, really useful skills we develop along the way. In fact, we get pretty good at it, whether we intended to or not. I can hear many of you cutting straight to denial …
Returning to Familiarity: Confidence from Uncertainty
“I haven’t felt normal for over two years now. I’m not sure if I still know how…” her voice trailed off. Even though striking up a conversation with a stranger in line at the grocery store is not a particularly unique occurrence, this vulnerability from a stranger was new. The events of the past few …
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There is Just Something About Being Wrong
Even when we are not channeling some form of perfectionism, we don’t like being wrong. As in early days as students receiving graded papers from the teacher, we always hope that the grade is going to be a good one, but we know that it can be a poor grade also. We know what we …
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Embracing Letting Go
Letting go of feelings that hold us to trauma is so stupidly simple to do yet ends up being incredibly difficult to practice. Must be some cosmic rule in play here. Wish I had a copy of the book. Events that we view as being traumatic, happen to us all of the time. We lose …
