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Identity Crisis After Divorce: Six Ways to Harness Your Emotions
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Divorce can feel like a threat to your identity – a betrayal of how you view yourself and what once brought meaning and safety to your life. It can feel like a tug of war to break free; to stop the dance even when you know you should. Still an…
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10 Ways to Be Brave Through Transition
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Uncertain change. That’s what most of us fear. Whether it’s the end of a relationship, moving to a new location or work environment – when we don’t have control over what’s changing it’s scary. A flood of questions takes over our minds and we wonder how and if we will…
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20 Signs of Losing Identity in Marriage
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Maintaining your identity in marriage is not something I ever understood until it was too late. When I separated from my first husband at the age of thirty one, I admit I celebrated my freedom; it was exciting because I had never lived alone. It was nice to have a…
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Our Collaborative Marriage – Why It Works
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But, I recently read an excerpt from a People Magazine interview of the Wade’s on their “collaborative marriage”. My first thought was ‘I still don’t like Gabrielle Union’; my next one was ‘Ha, I like the sound of that’. I was impressed. Some of these reality TV shows portray celebrity…
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Be the Cause of Your Life
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Are you giving your power away? Have you reached a brick wall in your thought process, decision making or outlook on life? Do you feel like you’re in a whirlwind of consequences or effects beyond your control? I remember that feeling. I remember feeling bitter and resentful towards people who…
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How I Manifested Self Healing
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As I sat in the front row of the classroom the instructor looked directly at me and asked “Are you ready to release the need to be sick?” To my surprise I was not. I was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in September 2010. Within one month, I began…
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12 Qualities Needed to Reinvent Yourself Even When You’re Confused About Who You Were to Begin With
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When you are feeling stuck in your life – unsure of your purpose – it is often because one or more of these factors are missing.
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Beware of This Silent Mistress that Destroys Your Marriage from Within
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A Must Read for Everyone with MS, Caregivers, and Loved Ones
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5 Steps to Gaining Clarity When You’re Feeling Emotionally Overwhelmed
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Without self awareness, you may continue to lash out, only making the situation worse.
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Conversations With My Sister: Divorce and Grief
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Detox and Grief: In order to fill the void, we must increase what brings us joy.
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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Let Go of Your Ex
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Divorce is hard. You’ve spent a substantial amount of time as one half of a married couple. Two lives had been intertwined and now you must figure out how to fill the gaps your former spouse previously occupied. In essence, you have to pick up the pieces and put yourself,…
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Mourning Until Morning
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The thing about sadness is that it doesn’t care about the climate. Heartache and pain resides in the state of your mind and encompasses your heart until it’s ready to let go.
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Mirage of a Good Thing
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“You look back over your relationship with a fine-toothed comb, looking for the moment in time when it all changed.”
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Degrees of Separation
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365 days and 180 degrees Though changing and ever growing I feel my pain still staring at me Refusing to disappear, just dissipating slowly Long days and late nights Encircling thoughts of anxiety I hold them at bay With an awareness of that path Once afraid and confused Tormented by…