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What I Know About Grief.

You are tender rage and gutted yearning. You are the softness waiting in the afterglow of fright. You are the architect of your wreckage. But you will never defeat grief. Because you are so much more than grief, it wouldn't ever be a fair fight.

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Spiraling Wildly Towards A Mystery.

Step by step, we are meeting ourselves as someone new. Getting to know this new mysterious person. Constantly being asked to revisit and let go of the old persona.

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Stir My Soul Fire: A Call To Smash The Quiet Love.

I beg you, do not be a wandering salesman with my soul, leaving if I slam the door in your face, straightening your tie and heading to the next home of someone who might have you. Burn down the whole fucking house.

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Why Do We Women Feel The Need To Save The World?

What is it that I have quietly learned in my 21 years as a female on this planet that has taught me to feel that if I spend my Sunday baking brownies to devour all by myself, lounging pants-less with hairy legs reading a book or watching 15 episodes of Family Guy, or napping or dancing or ...

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Hands To The Heart Center.

I feel so damn dirty and guilty when I can’t hear her pain anymore. I am her soul sister, it is my duty, so I hang on. I hang on, then hang up, and want to puke it all out for a cleanse; it so very hard to imagine the world that she lives in.

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4 Simple Steps To Save Your Relationship.

For the record, keeping your heart wide open during an argument is crazy-difficult. It means that you stay in the conversation, with receptivity, without defense, without attack, without judgment, and you just listen. It means that you stay connected not only to the bigger and more enlightened ...

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For When You Feel Crazy: Let It All Out.

While you let your own crazy out, ten thousand children learned to walk today. And somewhere, miles, or rather, planets away, a moonbeam smiled down on the Earth. And under that smile, ten more realized that the crazy... well, it doesn’t need to be contained. And from them, ten others. And so ...

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A Poem To My Nihilist. {prose poetry}

The point is to learn about ourselves. To know you are loved -- and then forget it and act broken, so you can discover it all for yourself. And then to let it go.

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I’ll Be My Own Hero.

I don’t need a prince on a white horse -- I just need me, and I don’t need to wait for myself to show up -- I will always be just here with my suit to remind me of the journey that has brought me here.

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Why You’d Want To Replace Your ‘Should’ With ‘Could’.

You may note that by simply using the word could, your internal conversation changes. It is not necessarily positive, but you don’t need it to be. You need it to be empowering versus disempowering, so that you can be accountable for your choices yet feel open to making some positive changes, to ...

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