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Feel 2018: February Observations and Reflections

I can’t believe it’s already a week into March!  February went by in a blink… except for the days that I was in India.  Those days dragged on and seemed to last forever. I’m here to report on month #two of my Feel 2018 personal research project.   My relationship with my dad   First, if...
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Feel 2018: Buffering with Christ

Continuing on my Feel 2018 journey, I wanted to share some thoughts and experiences about buffering. One of the definitions of the word buffer is to “lessen or moderate the impact of (something).” Another definition is “a person or thing that prevents incompatible or antagonistic people or things from coming into contact with or harming each...
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Feel 2018: January Observations and Reflections

I can’t believe it’s already the last day of January!  Usually, January is my least favorite month.  Christmas is over and it’s just cold and miserable outside.  But this year has been different.  It’s definitely helped that we have had a very mild winter here at my house.  I’m a fan of no snow on...
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Feel 2018: My Thoughts About Social Media and Giving Up Our Power

Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash *I’m gonna preface this by saying that everyone is entitled to their own opinion.  This is just mine.  And I am aware that I don’t know everything.  haha.  These are just thoughts that I am having on this topic. You know what I think one of Satan’s greatest tools is… trying to...
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Feel 2018: Shame Likes to Hitch a Ride

Photo by Isaac Quick on Unsplash This is what I want to say to the emotion named Shame.  I want to say “dude.  This heart is under restoration.  Stay off.  You are not welcome here.  Stop trespassing.”   I think that Shame’s favorite mode of transportation is the piggyback ride. He waits for that little heart house door to...
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Feel 2018: My Little Heart House

Like I mentioned at the end of my last post, negative and positive emotion go hand in hand.   As Brene Brown says, “We can’t selectively numb emotions – when we numb the dark, we also numb the light. When “taking the edge off” with a couple of glasses of red wine becomes a routine, our...
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Feel 2018: The Importance of Feeling and Processing Negative Emotions

If you read my last post then you know that I picked the word, feel, to focus on throughout 2018.  I’m a little over one week into this year and I’ve already had a lot of insights come to me as I’ve tried to be curious and get to know my emotional state better and what...
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2018 Word of the Year: Feel

Sorry for the silence on my blog!  I have been M.I.A. for the past couple months.  I built a dollhouse for my daughter for Christmas and that project occupied all of my free time during most of November and December.  I learned a lot from that project so maybe I’ll write a post about it...
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Growing Pains: Why is Personal Growth so Hard?

Personal growth can be really exciting and fun and enlightening and freeing and peaceful. I have seen a lot of that side. I love that side.   But I have also seen a lot of the other side – the side that is painful and agonizing and laborious and difficult. The side that leaves me...
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