Tag: loss
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oh, woe is me 🎵
Can I be vulnerable for a sec? Oh, I’m already vulnerable? Thank you for reading me, whoever you are. Even if you just skim a paragraph, or roll your eyes at a sentence. Thank you for any moment where you exhale and think, “That was good,” or “That was funny,” or if there was even…
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Maxine 🎧
I haven’t felt much like writing for a bit. I got caught up in an early morning yoga and meditation routine that I thought was serving me, but I don’t know. A friend said to me recently that sometimes you can do the healthiest things and still feel terrible, and that makes feeling terrible all…
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You’re number one 🎧
One of our clients has Alzheimer’s, and her children are having to put her in memory care. I also learned that, unbeknownst to her, she has stage four brain cancer. Sometimes I wonder how I ended up in a career like this—one where life events pop up often enough to force you into a headspace…
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Crying is bad for backs
Pain, especially physical pain of an excruciating nature, is a surreal thing. If you’ve never experienced it on a crippling scale, the kind that humbles you, it can be hard to relate. It’s been four years since my last serious back episode, and this one completely shattered me. It was enough to make me pause,…