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Seriously, Sometimes You Gotta Laugh
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen Here’s the thing. I’m a perfectionist. I...
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What Happens When We Try To Change Too Quickly?
Good morning! It’s good to be back after such a long time away. I’ve been really busy with an extended birthday celebration, and then my Senior Choral production of The Bright Lights of Broadway. Which...
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We Believe What We Tell Ourselves
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible. — TINA LIFFORD At the Sunday morning meeting yesterday, when we broke up, I chose to sit at the Hope For Today...
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7 Do’s and Don’ts in a Manic Phase of Bipolar Depression
7. When you wake up, startlingly wide awake after just a couple hours of sleep at night, don’t listen to your brain when it tells you you’ve had quite enough sleep. Do perhaps drink a glass of water...
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Love Yourself Through the Process
When I saw this cartoon it made me laugh so hard, and I was drinking coffee at the time. :D Then I realized it’s all about expectations and how what we think about things make them difficult. I hope...
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Putting On That Other Pair Of Shoes
Gentle readers, I’ve been trying and trying to write this blog, wanting it to be gentle and light, to bring you good vibes so you’ll come back and keep reading. But my mind and heart are heavy with all...
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Just Relax
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese...
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Managing
`P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by...
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Venting
When I saw my therapist Wednesday he gave me a homework assignment. He even wrote it down, because otherwise, it would have gone right out of my head. “Challenge absolute thoughts (All or Nothing...
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Performance Anxiety Redux
All right. This is not an apology, this is an explanation. There’s a reason I have been so flaky lately with my posts . . . well, this whole entire month, specifically. Last year, when I tried to...
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How Do You Respond To Stress? Part One
You’ve heard talk of Type A and Type B personalities. The first part of this two-part blog series on stress is about the Type A personality. Here are 25 things you might not know (or might!) about this...
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Organize, Order, Originate
As I started to work on my wood burning project (which I won’t be able to share with you anyway, because it’s for a family member, and I can’t take any chances online), I got this panicky ache in my...
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Rejoining The Human Race
Amazingly, it’s been almost five months since I last posted to this blog. And I pay for it! LOL I’m not sure I still remember how to do it. Have I been through some struggles in that time? Of course,...
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Performance Anxiety Redux
All right. This is not an apology, this is an explanation. There’s a reason I have been so flaky lately with my posts . . . well, this whole entire month, specifically. Last year, when I tried to...
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What Could Be Scarier Than a Great White Shark??
Happy ninth day of Twelvetide. I wish you health and prosperity this day, and a modicum of sanity as we go and be with various family and friends that we may have a genuine love it or leave it sort of...
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Let’s be honest. We all want/need to be loved. Newborn babies who are not held or touched, actually die. We all want someone to say “I love you and I always will. You are important. I’ll try my hardest...
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NEW! BOOK POST! Dear Kindle,
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…”–from a sonnet by Elizabeth Barett Browning Oh my goodness, Kindle. My affair with you has been on again/off again. I was highbrow and holier-than-thou....
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Performance Anxiety Redux
All right. This is not an apology, this is an explanation. There’s a reason I have been so flaky lately with my posts . . . well, this whole entire month, specifically. Last year, when I tried to...
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