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Asperger’s From The Inside.

We have spent our lives feeling like we landed on the wrong planet, like our very nature is not suited to this world, like every glance our way is looking for what is wrong with us, why we are different. And all we want, is all that anybody wants. To be okay. For our voices to be heard; even if ...

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Grief: An Unruly Companion.

As painful as this experience was, it was also the most sacred moment of my life. How grateful I felt to have been a witness to his life and his death. And how unsettling to be in the presence of death and yet feel so alive, so broken with sorrow and yet so riveted by the magnitude and majesty ...

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Endless Days In The Deep Subconscious: My Experience Of Vipassana.

So often we lose ourselves in the visions our mind creates. We act out in life as though playing a role in a film that we have scripted, reacting to imagined scenes and living up to role models we have fabricated from self-doubt. Rising as thoughts, they engage us, and we are left caught within ...

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It’s Time For This Wayfarer To Create Another Map.

Should one stay ingrained in reality, or should one give oneself up to the arts and make beautiful things for the world to reflect upon? Or is it possible to do both?

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For The Girl Who Just Wants To Know If It’s Going To Be Okay.

Unclench the fists you hold so tight, and forgive yourself for that silly mistake in the past that has long forgotten you. Deep breath, chin up, eyes forward. It’s time to move on. It’s time to let go.

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The Soft Heart of Fear.

Become curious about your fear. Are you actually in danger such as physical, emotional, or an unhealthy situation? If you are, then get out of there! Are you feeling vulnerable? What are the stories that are being activated? Where are these stories trying to guide you for healing?

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The Soft Season: The Beauty In Silence And Being Alone.

By Kari Farley

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Finding The Light In The Darkness.

Alone is not the same as lonely. Lonely is lacking the presence of another. Alone is being with yourself, listening to your life speak to you. Alone is being friends with yourself. Can you befriend yourself in this space? This is the most powerful friendship you will ever have. There is nothing ...

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Shadow, Power & World-Making: You Always Get Exactly What You Want.

A caveat: this essay talks about the dynamics of feeling stuck in victim vs. perpetrator patterns. The insights expressed here are meant to suggest a way towards an internal freedom that leads to no longer being drawn into such patterns, not to deny or invalidate the realities of abuse or ...

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An Open Letter To My Former Younger Self.

You will eventually meet not the but a one who will be the birth of Thank You notes you’ll whisper to all of your past mistaken lovers.

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