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Single Mom Survival Kit: The Monster Called FEAR
Is there something wrong with me? Will anyone ever love me again? Have you caught yourself asking these questions? Have you worried about how you’re going to figure out finances and look after the home while juggling your children’s lives? If so, you are not alone. When I first became a single Mom I asked all these questions too. When you...
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What I hoped to be an average night at work, turned out to be one of the most traumatic of my life. I work as a Registered Nurse on the Ob-Gyn floor at a local hospital. One of my patients was a young married woman in her mid to late twenties. The couple had been trying for several years to conceive and the wife was now eighteen weeks along with...
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Have you ever met a person who refuses to make decisions together? You might ask, “What shall we have for supper?” and the uncooperative response may be, “I don’t care. You decide.” Or you say, “I’m thinking we might take a trip to the coast this year. What do you think?” only to hear, “Does it really matter? We always do...
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We all know that building strong relationships takes ongoing work. We start by prioritizing our relationship(s) and finding time for those who are important to us. If we neglect to do that life moves along and we can lose touch. A close relationship is like a dance. When one person moves, the other one responds. The dance can go really...
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Grieving is a unique experience. It’s a process that is as individual as the people it affects. Oh yes, there are predictable stages … but the experience of loosing someone dear to you is truly a very personal journey. Recently I said goodbye to my dear Dad. It’s hard to believe it was only a couple of months ago. I’ve processed a lot...
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Messages in bottles have been the stuff of folklore for centuries. Dying, desperate sailors have hurled them. Curious children have launched them. Nicholas Sparks wrote a novel based on them, but don’t read it—or watch the movie—unless you already have a prescription for antidepressants. The story I find most interesting about such bottles,...
No Comments » Messages in bottles have been the stuff of folklore for centuries. Dying, desperate sailors have hurled them. Curious children have launched them. Nicholas Sparks wrote a novel based on them, but don’t read it—or watch the movie—unless you already have a prescription for antidepressants. The story I find most interesting about such bottles,...
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There was a video on CNN yesterday that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t footage from Thailand, or election coverage. It is a video of a little 5 year old girl sitting in front of an image of 5 cartoon children. The children are all wearing the same dress and the same expression, only the color of their skin is different. An interviewer...
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