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Birthdays
Today, I turn 45 years old. I feel so grateful for this day, and for all of the days that have preceded it. I know what a gift it is to get a…
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Sitting with It
“Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.” – Naval Ravikant I started seeing a new therapist in the spring of 2009. I initially went…
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Cathy
“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran I am going to…
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Uncomfortably Numb
In the months after my sister, Cathy, died, when I had returned home to the US and was living with my parents, when I was struggling to avoid my anger – a simmering…
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Discovering Joy
For most of my life, I had believed that happiness and joy were interchangeable feelings, synonyms for the emotion we feel when things are going well, when we are content and untroubled. They…
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Reminders
“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the…