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Your Presence is Requested…
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Your Presence is Requested…

“Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.” Susan Albers

“Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.” Buddha

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Tribes
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Tribes

“Surround yourself with people who add value to your life. Who challenge you to be greater than you were yesterday. Who sprinkle magic into your existence, just like you do to theirs. Life isn’t meant to be done alone. Find your tribe, and journey freely and loyally together.” Alex Elle

“When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me, too!’ be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.” Sweatpants & Coffee

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I’m a Travelling (Wo)man
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I’m a Travelling (Wo)man

“Travel is recess and we need it.” Rick Steves

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi

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Calm, Cool and Covid
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Calm, Cool and Covid

“Opportunity seldom rises with blood pressure.” Jarod Kintz

“Pretty wild how we used to eat cake after someone had blown on it.” Annie Rose

“It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos” Donna Karan

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Safety First
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Safety First

“The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.” Bessel van der Kolk

“If you aren’t thinking safety, you just aren’t thinking!” My husband

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Enough Said
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Enough Said

“Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it’s true.” Geneen Roth

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle

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Drips
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Drips

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” Ovid

“It may be a slow process but quitting won’t speed it up.” Anonymous

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Turtle Steps and Lower Bars
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Turtle Steps and Lower Bars

“When I slow down to half as fast, I take in twice as much.” Tara Brach

“Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction. So honor every step, no matter how slow.” Timber Hawkeye

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Healing…Part 2
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Healing…Part 2

“The cure for pain is in the pain.” Rumi

“We heal from the inside out.” Me

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E=MC2
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E=MC2

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

“What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith

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Welcome Home
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Welcome Home

“The greatest thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally, as opposed to our enemy.” William James

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What Does it Mean to Heal?
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What Does it Mean to Heal?

“The more consciousness you bring to your body, the stronger your immune system becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices. Your body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self healing.” Eckhart Tolle

“Are you walking in balance with the Greater Circle?” Grandmother Medicine Song

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Me Monday Mornings
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Me Monday Mornings

“Abundance is not something we acquire, it is something we tune into.” Wayne Dyer

“The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” Diane Von Furstenberg

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Superheroes Unite
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Superheroes Unite

“There is a superhero in all of us. We just need the courage to put on the cape.” Superman

“Knowing your superpower changes everything.”  Nadalie Bardo

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Hard Days
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Hard Days

“Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Even though you want to run. Even when it is heavy and difficult. Even though you’re not quite sure of the way through. Healing happens by feeling.” Dr. Rebecca Ray

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The Guest House
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The Guest House

“The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” Rumi

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Waterparks and Nervous Systems
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Waterparks and Nervous Systems

“Hopefulness lies in knowing that while early experiences shape the nervous system, ongoing experiences can reshape it.” Deb Dana

“The nervous system holds the key to the body’s incredible potential to heal itself” Sir Jay Holder

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Crappy Writing and Colosseums
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Crappy Writing and Colosseums

“If Rome was built in a day, we would have used the same contractor.” (on a sign posted outside a construction site in England)

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One Degree Turns
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One Degree Turns

“If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.” Brian Tracy

“Even a one degree shift in your thinking can cause a massive change in your life over time.” Mary Morrissey

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Healthy Enough
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Healthy Enough

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.” Rebecca Wells

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