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Searching for the One that Got Away

Teresa Solomita — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:25:27 +0000

Lily*, a driven, animated, and passionate 34 year-old designer, wants to be, do, and see everything that life has to offer. Whether she’s kicking with her friends, spending time with family or leading her design team, she’s 100% engaged. She’s driven when she has a goal and because she desires marriage and a family, she…

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I Advanced Confidently in the Direction of my Dreams and Found Myself in a Tap Dance Class on a Wednesday Afternoon

Carolyn Williamsen — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:43:10 +0000

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau What are we calling the “Rat Race” these days? Whatever it is, I’m heavy into it. I work as a full-time nurse…

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I Was the Caregiver, But I Didn’t Know How to Care

Ben Steele — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:05:15 +0000

“I can’t,” he said, not moving. I held the fork in front of Marvin’s mouth and stopped, hovering. A spasm went down his arm and he knocked his wheelchair’s joystick. The chair shifted and bumped the table. He had been having extra trouble chewing today. I didn’t know what was wrong. I stared in fear.…

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Bigger and Bigger and Always Black

Kate Amoo-Gottfried — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 07:30:54 +0000

I’m married to a BIG black man. Some might say he is larger than life. His ear-to-ear smile brightens every room. His BIG laugh is hilarious and makes others break into chuckles even if they didn’t hear the joke. His BIG shoulders (although very annoying on an airplane) have held many, many heads. And his…

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What I Learned When My Wife Broke Both Her Wrists

Robert Solley — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:10:00 +0000

It’s amazing how many things we do with our hands every day that we take for granted. It brings up that old adage that you don’t know what you’ve got until you lose it. Through the grace and fortune of some of the best medical care on the planet, my wife, Elizabeth, will eventually get…

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Everything Is Not Okay

Allison Barnes — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:58:17 +0000

“Just breathe. You’re okay.” No, I’m not okay. No, everything is not fine. And fuck you, it is not all just in my head. The pain in my chest, that is real. The dizziness and nausea, those are real. The vomit in the toilet, that’s real. The numbness of my lips and the sweat on…

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How to Listen to Yourself During Stressful Times

Shirin Shoai — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:48:20 +0000

Listening to ourselves can be harder than it sounds. When we’re having a rough time, we want support from someone who will hear us out, validate our feelings, and offer empathy, perspective, or assistance. We want someone who’s available for us. Yet finding that availability within ourselves, for ourselves, can be elusive. Often, what we…

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Don’t Quit Therapy Without Telling Your Therapist The Truth

Jenny Kepler — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:37:56 +0000

The fleeting look of disappointment on B’s face told me everything I needed to know. “It’s okay. You have a lot of clients,” she said quickly, minimizing my error and implying that her story was not worthy of remembering. B had trusted me, taken risks with me, and I let her down. Now she could…

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Addicted to Stuff: Helping Kids Learn to Let Go

Maryellen Mullin — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:58:48 +0000

For four years in college and four years after, everything I owned fit into a small space. Because I moved yearly, I lived simply. If I was tired of schlepping something between apartments, it was discarded. Like most people, once I stopped moving and settled in one place, I began to accumulate. Balancing my decisions…

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Why I Won’t Work with Poly Relationships

Lisa Marchiano — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:48:36 +0000

I was 22. It would be years before I would go to graduate school to become a psychotherapist, but I was already playing that role unofficially with friends. It was the middle of the night, and Alexa and I were up late talking. We had gotten to know each other while working as counselors at…

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The Dangerous Failure of 13 Reasons Why

Cindy Anderson — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:15:48 +0000

I was 18 years old, finishing my first trimester in college. I’d been up late the night before, preparing for finals. The phone interrupted my sleep at 8:00 on a Tuesday morning. “Hello?” I croakily whispered into the phone, trying not to wake my roommate. She was sleeping with a pillow over her head…

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The Small, Vital, Necessity of Using Your Blinkers

Marty Cooper — Tue, 23 May 2017 15:23:31 +0000

While driving the mean streets of the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ve taken to religiously, nay, even aggressively, using my turn signal; and when I see another driver doing the same, find myself at times crying out, “You, Sir or Madam, are a good human!” A friend of mine once said that society is kept…

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