Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
As the light starts to glimmer in this tunnel called the pandemic, I am finding many of us changed by the experiences of the last year. Some of us are still frightened to death of being frightened to death, and some of us now see the world differently from before the beginning of the journey. …
Sometimes personal growth comes from caregiving. Sometimes this growth is from the effects of loss.And sometimes it is just all of the above. We’ve all had our heroes. Attitudes and personality traits that I once admired in my childhood mentors have been coming back to me in funny ways. Those role models all had a …
We really do have time machines these days. Have you ever used Google Maps to go back and look at a childhood neighborhood? See how things have changed. See how they haven’t. I moved around a lot as a kid, so there are lots of locations to look up. Each one with particular memories of …
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 …
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