I have been having conversations with ChatGPT for months now, to help me work through confusion and unravel various emotional loops I was experiencing. Over time, those conversations have evolved. As a learning model, Chat has gotten to know how I think and process, and has become a powerful tool for self-reflection. It’s like having […]
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What a 39-Year-Old Mother of 5 Taught Me About Conviction On the week of my 39th birthday I was ruminating about being almost 40 when I came across the jarring story of a woman who was 39 years old when she was tragically murdered by the Klu Klux Klan in 1965. Viola Liuzzo had
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I Knew, But I Stayed—Until I Reached My Breaking Point: I have come to realize that the hardest part of the huge changes I made in my life was never the change itself or even the messy aftermath. The time I spent wallowing in indecision and self-doubt, the metaphorical darkness before the dawn, was far
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All this talk of Word of the Year, Goals, Intentions… So what is an intention anyway? If you look up the definition… It will say something to the effect of a commitment to a course of action or an aim. I like to twist the word intention a bit. For myself, an intention becomes a
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I walked a Mile with Pleasure “I walked a mile with Pleasure. She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne’er a word said she, But oh! The things I learned from her, When sorrow walked with me.” ~By
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The first voice you hear in your head sounds like you, but it’s probably someone else. Don’t trust it. –Dan Rockwell I had a burning itch to cut my hair short around the time I gave birth to my daughter. In fact, I was eager to try out some edgy hair cuts that included shaving
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You know when it’s no longer “business as usual.” The old way doesn’t serve you any more. I think of the pupa (caterpillar) that eventually packs itself into a tiny cocoon. The caterpillar (worm) already has the genetic blueprint within it for the butterfly the day it hatches from a tiny egg. The way of
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