Author: Lisa
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Okay
I thought I had to figure it all out myself first before letting other lossents know it’s okay to flounder and feel lost until you find the new ‘you’ after losing a child. (Or after losing a spouse or a house, or a pet or a plant…) It’s taken a while for me, each in Read more
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Moving
Moving is widely ranked as one of life’s heaviest stressors, bringing with it a grueling mix of physical exhaustion and financial strain. The average American moves about 11 times in a lifetime, averaging a move about once every 5-7 years for most people. I’ve just completed my 30th move. <gulp> It’s a staggering number. The Read more
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Confidence
Do you remember the occasional visiting speaker ‘assemblies’ at elementary school in the 1970’s or 1980’s, into the early 1990’s? I was fascinated at how these speakers could present information so comfortably, so confidently, and often wondered,’How did they get like that?’ It never occurred to me that it was learned, or a job, or Read more
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Procrastination
Rarely is the excuse for procrastination valid. It is most often strongly invalid, whatever it is. Or is it? The fact remains–you didn’t do the thing you said you were going to do when you said you were going to do it. Period. You didn’t do it. You didn’t do it well, and/or you didn’t Read more