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Unpacking Your Process: Facing Pressure

The last two weeks were rough for me. Although it wasn’t apparent on the outside, signs of a downward internal spiral were hard to...

Quotes to Live By Part 3

The hardest project we will ever work on is ourselves. The more I attend therapy, the more this fact rings true. Most recently, while...

Quotes to Live By Part 1

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -Alice Walker Somehow over the last four years, I...

Lessons on Love: How to Make it Bloom

I have three sets of flowers on my dining room table collected over the past week. The third set came yesterday when the church I visited...

Lessons on Love: Don't Rush It

Valentine's Day is Thursday, and that used to mean something to me. It was always a defining moment for whomever I was talking to because...

Part IV: The Power of Restraint

Saturday night could have ended badly for me. I don’t often hang out, but I was invited to a gathering and after a productive week, I...

Part III: Take Inventory

Last week, I threw out three full containers of oatmeal and two new garlic powder seasonings. I was determined to use up the food in my...

Part II: Goal Setting

Ironic. That’s how I would describe the fact that the second post of my self-discipline series almost didn’t get published. I sat down to...

A Look in the Mirror

The luxury of being single with no kids is not having holiday obligations. Instead of worrying about gifts (which I told my family I...