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Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023

I wave around this wand of patience, like some sort of magic stick, hoping all my problems will somehow magically disappear. Patience with others is applied much more easily then with myself.

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Posted on April 8, 2022

I’m pushing myself to be stronger, better, more resilient, I’m looking for logic where none exists.

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Posted on April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

I was dying for a lot of years, yet through immense pain and the gift of desperation, and now dealing with grift and loss, I’m able to start living again, and you can too.

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Posted on March 11, 2022March 11, 2022

I’d finally stop running and rebelling from the one person that was with me and carried me through all those hard times in my life.

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Posted on March 3, 2022March 3, 2022

Maybe it comes with age, but I’m in a place of peace and acceptance now. Anxiety and depression plague me from time to time and…

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Pillows of Silk

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Posted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

Faith takes immense courage, courage takes strength, strength takes tenacity, tenacity takes endurance and endurance means letting go.

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Posted on January 21, 2022February 10, 2022

It’s not easy but it is possible. You are the one on this journey, no one else, so don’t let people tell you what to do or influence you to do something different than what you know to be true for you.

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Posted on January 18, 2022February 10, 2022

If you tell one person about this blog and they tell one person and that person tells another, this whole thing might help one individual…

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Posted on January 16, 2022February 10, 2022

Growth led to more understanding and that understanding showed me there is no shame in asking for help.

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Posted on January 11, 2022January 13, 2022

At the beginning it seemed impossible to get my head wrapped around that notion. How could surrender ever bring victory?

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