Category: Emotions
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Commentary – Can You Feel It?
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us…
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O.K. I Admit…
I have been pushing back on something I just don’t want to admit, for if I admit it then I own it. I have been doing mental gymnastics around it. The more I try to avoid it, the stronger it seems to loom over me.
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Beginning To Understand Myself
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. Maya Angelou Read more at…
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Ill Effects Of Depression
If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. Kris Carr Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/depression-quotes I…
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A Quick Word From Groucho Marx
I found this quote from the famous comedian, Groucho Marx. I cannot add to it for it says everything I am feeling at this time. ENJOY! I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have…
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You Write This Headline
I grew up around an angry man. You never knew when he would blow his top, so, everyone walked like on egg shells around him. Blowing his top may have been wrong, but when he was angry he would throw things, break things, God forbid if he was driving when he lost it.
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Itchy Feet
*** Before you close this post, it is not about athlete’s foot.*** In the summer of 1997 my best friend came and knocked on my apartment door. It was not the best place, but it was all that I could afford at the time. He began to tell me that there was a mobile home…
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Flashback!
Life’s is funny, just when you think you have the rules down pat life decides to change them leaving you in a tailspin.
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My Pendulum
I have sat down at my laptop many times since my last post. Each time I start one I find myself hitting the delete button. When I write I want it to mean something, something worth saying!
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Comfortable?
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are. Ellen DeGeneres When I entered high school I was a fish out of water. I stood 6’1″ and weighed only ninety-nine pounds. I was teased endlessly for being so skinny. I felt initimidated by other guys my…
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Distractions, Welcomed!
This weekend has been horendous! Two incidents of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. After I heard about a two year old was a victim of gun shot I had to turn away from all the news channels on the Canadian and the American channels. I have sat down to write a post…
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Too Critical!
**Please do not be angry with the following statement” If I was a believer in the Zodiac signs I would fall into line about the first trait listed. That is Virgos are ‘critical thinkers’. That is my one big hurdle, I tend to be very critical of myself. When my grandfather passed away I took up…
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Control
Before I was in treatment, before the medications, I would find myself angry because things always seemed to be going against me. Things that there was just no way for me to control.
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The Other Side Of Healthy
It was early part of the nineties where I found myself out of work living in a bachelor apartment where I just was totally burned out.
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