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It’s Not You, It’s Me

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Have you ever needed to make a decision where none of the options were necessarily ones you really wanted? I have one of those decisions to make right now. It includes a bit of a confession and I'm not too thrilled about it. I'm embarrassed and a bit sad, but I know...

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How to Change the Weather

How to Change the Weather

We're freshly returned from an amazing adventure in the UK, gallivanting across the Scottish Highlands and then down to London and its beautiful surrounding villages. It was a beautiful trip, filled with magical memories and, very surprisingly, stunningly gorgeous...

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What No One Tells You About Success

What No One Tells You About Success

Getting what you want is awesome. Winning is awesome. Succeeding feels amazing. Going after something, giving it a go and seeing your intended results? Awesome, obviously. We all know what it's like to try and not succeed, even though it's likely a case of simply not...

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Playing the Game You Want to Win

Playing the Game You Want to Win

You're not going to win at Scrabble if you're playing by the rules for Monopoly. You're not going to win at poker if you're playing by the rules for solitaire. You can’t play chess with the rules for checkers. It's always a risky bet for me to use a sports analogy,...

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The Mother I Never Meant To Be

The Mother I Never Meant To Be

I'm not really sure I want to write this and I'm even less sure I want to share it. My insides are twisting as I type this, but they've been twisting for months, so I'm just going to write it anyway. It's really difficult to be suffering from something painful or...

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After the Adventure, the Rough Landing

After the Adventure, the Rough Landing

So I'm fresh back from a long-anticipated trip to Universal Studios and Disney World with one of my best friends. Did you know you can request a pixie-dusting when you're in the Magic Kingdom? It's free, relatively not well known and it's the souvenir that keeps on...

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Intuition vs Ego

Intuition vs Ego

How do you know whether the small, still voice you're listening to is the right small, still voice to listen to? Have you ever tried to check in with your intuition, only to discover that you can't distinguish the voice of your inner wisdom from the silver-tongued...

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On Leaving Well

On Leaving Well

When I was, oh, eleven or twelve—I can't actually remember, though I remember it was during the long reign of knee socks—I decided to quit Girl Guides. I remember this because it was the first time I ever left anything by my own choice. I also remember that I fretted...

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The Stories We Tell

The Stories We Tell

We humans are funny animals. I once heard Elizabeth Gilbert say in an interview that the best place to hide God was in us humans, because we are the last place you'd think to look for it/her/him/they/divinity. It makes me laugh but I think it's also profoundly true....

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