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Why Bother To Consider?
By Terese Luikens | | Grief, Mental Health, Relationships
Why Bother To Consider? Along with being a wife, mom, mom-in-law, grandma, sister, aunt, friend, author, yoga teacher and public school teacher, I am also a suicide survivor. My father ended his life on July 5, 1972. I was twelve-years-old. I remember how my mother explained his death to me by saying, “Your father’s heart…
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Why Bother With Authenticity?
By Terese Luikens | | Mental Health, Relationships
Why Bother With Authenticity? Back in the 1960s there was a game show called, “To Tell The Truth.” Three contestants, all claiming to be the same person, attempted fooling a panel of four celebrities into believing they were the real McCoy and not the impostor. The panel of four, peppered the panel of three, with…
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Why Bother Noting Habit or A Way of Life?
By Terese Luikens | | Health, Mental Health
Why Bother Noting Habit or A Way of Life? I tried smoking for the first time long before I was of legal age and then it became a habit. This habit became a way of life. I smoked my way through high school, college and the first few years of marriage. When my husband and…
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Why Bother To Look Into Mindset?
By Terese Luikens | | Family, Mental Health, Relationships
Why Bother To Look Into Mindset? I used to worry more than I do now. And when I wasn’t worried, I felt uneasy. Surely, I needed to feel angst in my life otherwise, I just wasn’t normal. Anxiety, fretfulness and waiting for the other shoe to drop, was my conventional mindset. When I thought about…
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