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Good Days Bad Days

Good Days Bad Days

Healing doesn’t happen in a straight line. You get the flu, you fall into a downward spiral and you feel awful. A few days later, you start to feel better, you go on an upswing and you’re relieved that it’s over. But the next day, you feel badly again and you’re back...

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Just Show UP

A woman I used to know, Cynthia, was in the business of helping celebrities prepare to be on camera. They were accustomed to performing in front of thousands of people, they had reached excellence in their craft, but unscripted appearances and interviews on talk shows...

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No Choice is a Choice

When you choose yourself, you start attracting everythingthat is also choosing you.”                                                                                     . . . Anonymous I hadn’t written someone else’s memoir for years. In the past, I did one after the...

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The Fear of Silence

The Fear of Silence

Music is the silences between the notes.                                                  - - - Claude Debussy There is a word for the fear of silence. Sedatephobia. It comes from the word “sedate” and the word “phobia.” People who have this syndrome experience...

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How Cats Heal

How Cats Heal

A friend of mine caught the flue recently and when the worst symptoms were gone, he didn’t feel well for another several weeks. He was terribly impatient. I would have been, too, and each day he woke up, he was bummed out that he still didn’t feel strong and healthy....

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Say It Now

Say It Now

It was 1987 and a friend of mine, Vincent, was in the hospital. He had been diagnosed with HIV and back then, it meant that it would progress to AIDS and he wouldn’t be around for much longer.There were no cocktails to fight the virus and the only drug available was...

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