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Today would have been my 14th wedding anniversary. It’s sometimes a reflective day. Thinking back, I’m pretty proud of myself for having such a nontraditional wedding and engagement – and life, really. Ha. I’ve always been a more nonconventional type person. Society “norms” just don’t make sense to me if they don’t make sense to… Continue reading The Courage to Live Authentically

I’m working on loving and embracing *all* parts of me. All emotions. And that can be hard, especially if an emotion is not as comfortable or “socially acceptable,” I particularly struggle with my anger, jealousy, shame, and “neediness.” Sometimes I *hate* those emotions and wish they weren’t there, that they’d go away, that they weren’t… Continue reading All Emotions are Valuable

I was reflecting on the post I wrote yesterday about being kind of anxious about joining new online groups and my fear of people judging my hand. It was helpful when I thought back to first meeting my friend who also has limb differences and reflecting on my initial uncertainty about her. Her limbs looked… Continue reading Open Minds and Open Hearts

For the past few months I’ve been humming and hawing about attending some interesting online meetups. They’ve literally been sitting in my pinned folder for months, and I just haven’t had the courage to try them. I started thinking, maybe I should explore my fears about trying a new group. The first thing that came… Continue reading The Courage to Try

Like I said in a post last week, by my meditation area I put a picture of my 6th grade self along with my Dumbo book to remind me of my life purpose of helping people overcome and heal from being bullied. As part of that (and healing myself) I decided to put a note… Continue reading Feel Your Power