Philosophy
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How to Hear Your Inner Voice
Are you someone who struggles to cut through all the noise in your mind to find what you really need from your inner voice and intuition? It’s not uncommon, especially for people with a history of trauma who have become hypervigilant to others’ emotional cues. In trauma, we learned to be aware of the slightest… Read more
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Breaking out of the binary
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of what you could call “finding myself.” After serving as an ally member on the board of my college Gay Straight Alliance, I only realized I was bisexual in my early twenties. Even when my sister came out as bisexual and went to prom with a same sex… Read more
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Your Mission Statement, Should You Choose To Accept It
I’ve been working on some budgeting and financial planning resources for a personal finance group I help run on Facebook. In the guide, I made a brief activity for participants to create their own financial mission statement. The big “WHY” that can remind them of their long term goals when they want a short term… Read more
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Mindfulness and Contentment
According to Psychology Today: Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present. When you’re mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience. Mindfulness and contentment are… Read more
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My Real First Marriage
In recent years when I have discussed my first marriage, I’ve been referring to the one with legal paperwork, self-esteem turmoil, and a divorce at the end. In all of those times I have said the words “my first marriage,” I forgot that my first marriage was actually to my childhood best friend who lived two doors… Read more
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5 Tiny challenges for a better life
Tiny actions add up over time to make big changes in your life, either positive or negative. Consider the small action to decide, “I don’t want to have a vegetable with dinner tonight.” That decision is okay. It’s okay to not eat a vegetable with dinner. Last night, I didn’t eat a vegetable with dinner.… Read more
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Cut back on waste by using the whole buffalo
Yesterday was Earth Day. I missed getting this post done in time for it but it’s a great Earth Day concept I share with you today – the concept of reducing waste. I firmly approve of the notion that the native American Indians “used the whole buffalo” when they hunted. A buffalo provided many useful… Read more
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Gone fishing
Have you ever seen the photograph collection, Humans of New York? Photographer Brandon has a blog and a Facebook page and is coming out with a book. His photos are wonderful and there’s usually a thought-provoking caption, from his interview with the subject of each photo. One of the best parts of HONY is the… Read more
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Today is a gift
My friend recently shared this on Facebook (I know, I have a Facebook problem): Every single day is a gift. It’s a brand new day, a day to start over and count your blessings and do the things that mean the most to you. Yesterday and all the days before that are over. You can’t… Read more
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Dreams and plans
Two things – 1. I will be going back to a twice-per-week update schedule! Since I will be writing so much about my debt free budget plans, I’m not going to bore you with ONLY my finances to read about once a week. So I’ll be going back to a twice weekly posting, once about… Read more
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