betty ming liu https://bettymingliu.com inspiration for happiness Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:22:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 What my inner child wants: let me out! https://bettymingliu.com/2018/04/what-my-inner-child-wants/ https://bettymingliu.com/2018/04/what-my-inner-child-wants/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:18:41 +0000 https://bettymingliu.com/?p=22946 Eighteen months ago, I wrote a letter to my inner child. Come into my life more, I said. Well, she took up the invitation. Now, she wants to take over. She says it’s time to heal the early years and fully rebirth myself. <Gulp.> Anyways, here she is. See what what you think.     Hey Betty, Congrats on the life changes. ...

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]]> https://bettymingliu.com/2018/02/year-of-the-dog-with-my-pit-bull/feed/ 15 Mommy makeover: what was, what’s new, what’s now https://bettymingliu.com/2018/01/what-was-whats-new-whats-now/ https://bettymingliu.com/2018/01/what-was-whats-new-whats-now/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:06:34 +0000 https://bettymingliu.com/?p=22799 Last fall was so crazy that I just stopped blogging. All I did was work. Which left me exhausted. Then, I reflected on my life by looking at three categories: what was, what’s new, what’s now. And then, I saw the hole in my heart, the truth: I was an empty-nesting mom in transition. Oh, it’s hard to stop being ...

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]]> https://bettymingliu.com/2017/10/why-immigrants-are-100-american/feed/ 8 What I learned from a year of celibacy https://bettymingliu.com/2017/09/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-celibacy/ https://bettymingliu.com/2017/09/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-celibacy/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:42:10 +0000 https://bettymingliu.com/?p=22724 Okay. I just need to write this post and be done with it. You might remember that last September, I vowed to devote myself to — well, to me. I promised to do this for 12 months. Now it’s time to share what I learned from a year of celibacy. Oh, how I do NOT want to be blogging about ...

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