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Are You Afraid to Be Yourself?

April 28, 2013

I once had a habit of writing my soul out in journals only to go back and shred the pages. It wasn’t because I wrote about things I didn’t want to remember. It was because I hated myself. I hated reading what I had written because I’d look back and be filled with shame. Shame [...]

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Stop Waiting to Start Living

April 1, 2013
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(image source) Every once in a while I have these weeks when it seems like so much gets crammed into my life.  They’re the weeks when emotional stuff hits the fan, when other people suddenly pop up and need something from me, and when I start to get into a tizzy about life and the [...]

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Fear Discontinued: Relinquishing Fear and Stepping Into Your Power (Part of the Missing Link Series)

February 18, 2013

Today you have two choices.  You can act from a place of fear or you can act from a place of love.  I used to have a visceral reaction in my gut when I heard people talk about love like this.  It made no sense to me and it rubbed the academic in me the [...]

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It’s Nothing Personal (Part of the Missing Link Series)

January 30, 2013

I used to be that person. You know the type. High-strung, uptight, and wound-up.  That’s how people used to describe me and that was before I ever graduated high school! “Lighten up, Alex.”  “Calm down, it was just a joke.”  Oh if I had a nickel for every time I heard things like  that. While [...]

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The Missing Link Series: Lessons in Acceptance

October 10, 2012

Monday morning I woke up in A LOT more pain than I had anticipated, which meant that it was definitely necessary to postpone my trip to London.  Thankfully, I was able to push it back exactly a week, allowing me enough time to heal and to meet with my surgeon for a post-op checkup.  I’m [...]

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Letting Self-Compassion Soothe Fear

August 4, 2012

Right now the only relationship I can be in is with myself. And this is not a bad thing.  In fact, it’s kind of what a big part of me has wanted.  To be able to explore myself, my truest and most authentic wants, needs, and desires and have the freedom to make choices as [...]

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Coffee, Donuts, & Trying to Overcome Self-Judgement and Fear

June 27, 2012

Hi Friends <3 I apologize for not having responded to comments or posted recently.  I had a difficult weekend struggling with A LOT of self-judgement and fear and a dear friend of mine who is almost like my little sister was in a crisis situation and living in another state I did not know what [...]

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Borderline Weekend

June 4, 2012

I have to say that I am actually SO glad that it’s Monday.  Weekends, for whatever reason, happen to be EXTREMELY difficult on me.  I don’t know what the difference is because it’s not like my weekends are that different from my weekdays, but I have been experiencing some severe “BPD episodes” the past several [...]

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Creating a Customized Meditation for Recovery, Anxiety, Fear, & Trauma

May 21, 2012
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I can’t believe it’s Monday. Ok it’s Monday night really, but I started this post this morning.  After being pretty much confined to my bed the entire weekend with a rather sweet cuddle buddy, Do you see what she is resting her nose on? My salt crystal heart! I thought I’d wake up feeling much [...]

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From Fear to Fighting: Owning My Truth and Embracing My Life

May 18, 2012

I have written about 4 different posts that I thought I wanted to post today, and as I neared the end of each one, it didn’t feel right.  They were all slightly different but they had one common thread.  Maybe they had two common threads.  The first is fear and the second is pain. Easter [...]

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