Tag: healing
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Expansion
Everyone has a group of friends. Over the years, people come and go, but the overall size of that circle usually stays about the same. Someone moves away, someone new comes into your life, and things naturally balance themselves out. It’s a little like breathing. Air goes in, air comes out. Expansion and contraction happen…
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Excavation
Almost immediately after her passing, I found myself wanting to be free of the mountain of things she had accumulated. There were many clothes that had been purchased but never worn, including a drawer full of delicates, along with other things that were well past their prime but held sentimental value. The sentimental attachment was…
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Nature
The outdoors is good for my soul. The more time I spend just existing outside of our home, the more in touch with myself I feel. I’ve mentioned before that I kind of lost the identity of who I was outside of the duality of our relationship. Every decision, every day, opens a new door…
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Beginnings
I didn’t want to change. I was satisfied with the way it was going even when things were hard. I was comfortable with how things were – even with all of the drama that comes with mental illness. Each one of us, Mel and myself included, had some form of mental trauma that we’ve been…
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Hope
My first introduction to this word came from the name of my first school, Hope Lutheran School in Seattle, Washington. It started out as just a word associated with my education but I soon discovered what it meant to hope – and the reasons why it was important. At that time, I hoped that I…