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Why Bother Rising To The Occasion?

Why Bother Rising To The Occasion? While a junior in high school, I made my first commitment to a “professional” job; I became a nurse’s aide in a nursing home. Working there gave me more confidence than anything in school, and I was tempted to drop out to devote myself to my job. But instead,…
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Mental Health

Why Bother Noticing Your Breath?

Why Bother Noticing Your Breath? In one word, how would you answer this question, “Life is about…?” You might say, life is about eating well. Life is about loving others. Life is about getting out and doing the things you love on a regular basis. I would agree that life is about all those things.…
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Grief

Why Bother To Consider?

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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Mental Health

Why Bother With Authenticity?

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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