Sometimes life comes at you fast.Sometimes it’s a curveball to the face and knocks you down and out.Other times, it IS a fastball, except in the slowest of slow motions – that you find your brain taking it’s sweet, sweet precious time to let it seem to sink in. Is it trauma? Is it denial?Continue reading “the power of words”
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don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
“Trust is the most mysterious, painfully difficult, out-of-reach thing that I have yet to actually grasp… It’s like wanting something so badly, yet refusing to ever actually pick it up.”
standing at the confluence of life, loss and love.
There are moments in life that take your breath away. We are all made differently, so those moments look differently to each of us. It can be in the rising and setting suns, watching the waves rhythmically crash onto the shore, the moment you say “I do” to the love of your life, the momentContinue reading “standing at the confluence of life, loss and love.”
How Verbal Abusers Exploit Conversational Norms
By Berit Brogaard, D.M.Sci., Ph.DPsychology Today| January 3, 2022 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina http://www.psychologytoday.com Verbal abusers often vitiate cooperative principles to get their victims down. KEY POINTS • When we conversationally imply something without explicitly saying it, we rely on “violations” of conversational norms.• Verbal abusers sometimes exploit violations of conversational norms for personalContinue reading “How Verbal Abusers Exploit Conversational Norms”
The Power of Speaking Up
There is POWER in SPEAKING UP. Last week, my youngest daughter & I, unfortunately, were witness to a terrible situation between a family just a few feet away from us… as the fight became more volatile, physical and was escalating, my gut and former experience told me what I needed to do. I got upContinue reading “The Power of Speaking Up”
becoming beautifully unbroken 