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This Christmas, Do Something Different
I’ve always thought the holidays were a magical time of year–at least I certainly thought so as a kid. Cozy. Warm. The feeling of safety as I’m surrounded by love, egg nog, and family with of course, Kenny G to set the mood. However, as I grew up the holidays become more difficult. When I look around, I notice that it is much the same with others. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau Holidays for many of us involve some kind of loss. If we haven’t experienced the loss...
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“Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.” – Tara Brach Sometimes life feels so very cyclical. Though I have made great progress physically, mentally and emotionally, one single moment of slipping can be so heavy that it almost outweighs the many moments I do life beautifully. Slips-ups in and of themselves are no big deal if you don’t see them as...
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Time for some transparency. My name is Jessica Crew. Yet [what I want to say when introduced is] I am neither limited by my name nor my highly-sensitive personality, though I thought so at one time. My own gifts were bigger than me. My superpowers were out of my control. 🙂 I had no space to breathe, to move, to be me. Perhaps it was just as well for I did not even know who “me” was (or which “me” I was for that matter). Not until I spread my wings did I realize there were bits of “me” that...
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