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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 25, 2023April 25, 2023

I’ve come a long way from those humble beginnings. I’ve built up things better and stronger then they were before, the mortar for my foundation has the proper mixture this time.

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Posted on April 23, 2023

I’m back and don’t even know where to begin? First of all…how has a whole year gone by since my last entry? Where does 365…

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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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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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The waiting game

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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 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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Take Time

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Posted on December 9, 2021

Life was this constant race, either I was running, or being chased — always on the go. I couldn’t sit still, I couldn’t stop. I needed alcohol to fuel myself; the more I burned, the more I needed.

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Any Lengths

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Posted on December 8, 2021

At the beginning of this new journey I made an oath to be willing to go to “any lengths” – but what does that mean exactly?

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