You can do everything “right” and things can still go horribly wrong. I am facing this. I am embracing this. And yet, the question ‘WHY?’ pops up like a pesky fly, abruptly interrupting my thoughts, my focus, my joy. But WHY did this happen? The human need to figure out why a crisis occurred … where to place the blame……
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The First Secret to Thriving is There Are No Secrets
“I risk the safety of my inner world every time I pretend that I have everything under control when I’m really falling apart.” -Anne Carly *name has been changed After a decade of teaching students with severe behavior issues, I switched to teaching first grade. It soon became clear that a beneficial arrangement could be made between a veteran first…
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The Unsolicited Advice that Turned Heart Worry into Helpful Awareness
Personal crises don’t care about big plans. And when a crisis occurs, we are often faced with choices: Pause Postpone Go forward as planned In a decision process too complex for words, I chose Option 3: Go forward as planned. On a hot, July morning, just mere weeks ago, I sat on a taxiing plane, wondering if I’d done the right…
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You Are Not *Just* Anyone
This is not how I planned to return to this space after my annual July blogging break. If you are familiar with my blog, then you know that I consider it my ‘sacred space,’ where I share my most vulnerable thoughts and innermost discoveries with you, my companions on this journey. But today, I feel compelled to share something I posted…
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Returning the Cart and the Truth About Parenting with Long-Haul Hope
I recently got cleared by my podiatrist to take a fifteen-minute walk outside. That sentence does not adequately express the magnitude of this permission. Trust me when I say that being able to do this after a year of excruciating pain and months of immobility felt miraculous. When it was time, I excitedly dropped my 14-year-old daughter off at tennis…
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Not Where You Want to Be, But Still Here
“I’m not where I want to be.” Those words seem to keep coming up,in my mindin conversations in the world as it falls short, and living beings slip through the cracks. “I’m not where I want to be.” I heard those words frequently last week as I began my recovery process from foot surgery. ‘Four to six weeks in the boot…’…
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