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Give Yourself Permission: Stay Open to Possibilities
"It’s amazing how easy things can be when we give ourselves permission to do them. My energy was high, and I felt open to possibilities that morning. It was a creative moment: inspiration struck, and we all went with it." Each week, I meet with a lovely group of women...
A Life in the Balance: One Woman’s Struggle with Opiate Addiction
"And this is how I overdosed, on some poor-quality pill I found online with a fentanyl hotspot. I was getting ready to go to the gym, and the next thing I knew I was on the floor surrounded by four firefighters and my very worried husband." To most people in my...
The Link Between Gratitude and our Bodies
"Feeling gratitude, whether for others or ourselves, is not just something we should do because it is the right thing to do around the holidays. There are proven scientific benefits to feeling gratitude." Why is gratitude for our bodies important in your opinion? Our...
Lessons from Grandma
My mother was 16 when she discovered she was pregnant with me and I was born two months after she turned 17. One of the gifts of my mother’s early indoctrination into motherhood was that I spent time with my grandmothers while they were still fairly young. My father’s...
Letters from Renée: You Are Born in Loss
I asked Renée to write about loss for the month of November. I wanted to hear her take and get a sense of how she views loss. But after Renée submitted her essay, we went back and forth via email. I was concerned that the essay read like the life of a woman who had...
Wash Me Clean
"I was once the child and she, my caretaker. I recall a time when I felt safe, content, and nurtured—because of my grandmother." She refuses to bathe anymore. Gram stinks of aged urine and dirty clothes, her greasy hair stuck to the side of her head. At first I buy...
The Ghost of Christmas Future: What Loss Feels Like
You don’t get to 51 without knowing what loss feels like. How it envelops you, sucks the marrow from your bones, leaving you feeling brittle and at times, broken. My mother died almost 14 years ago. My father died six years ago. Long before my mother died, she...
Kika talks about Loss
The stress of this time period led me to bad decision-making as far as taking care of myself, so that the aftermath led to drinking too much and feeling and behaving frazzled all the time. Age: 54 Three words that describe you today? Introverted. Creative. Passionate....
