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I tried to help them, I truly and honestly did. I gave it everything I had again and again but it was never enough. It never stopped the bleeding. They never felt loved enough, respected enough, seen or appreciated enough. I tried until it felt like it was killing me. I tried until there was… Read more
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I Googled it. I had to. I wanted to know what the internet said about the Hero’s journey. Not only did it outline the concept of what the Hero’s journey is but it also pulled up results to help someone write a book following the Hero’s journey format. Made popular but Joseph Campbell; departure, initiation,… Read more
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I’ve arrived at a place in my life where outcomes don’t need to go the way I needed them to anymore. People don’t need to act or respond the way that I had needed them to anymore either. I just want to Be and do what I came here to be and do whatever it… Read more
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Many of us grew up within family structures that had hard outlines ideals that made up what we came to know as right and wrong. Now, I’m not talking about the “common sense” right and wrong but right and wrong as concerns failure and success, specifically. Go to college; get a 4 year+ degree, intern/get… Read more
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I’ll preface this post by saying that I don’t have all the answers. I don’t believe that we ever can or will. Contrary to our perception, life is infinite. After studying and wholeheartedly partaking in various religions and spiritual modalities, I have come to the conclusion that we don’t die. Not the way we think… Read more
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Parenting has taught me most of the important things I’ve come to know. Special needs parenting has been the extra icing on the cake AND the after-dinner mint. In every way imaginable, in all of the places I didn’t think I could, I did. In every way imaginable they said we couldn’t, we did. In… Read more
