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Personal Growth

This Amazing Young Woman

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How can I even express the heart-bursting love and pride I have for my daughter?

My husband and I are spending a lot of time thinking about how much she’s changed, enlivened, expanded our lives. AND how hard it’s going to be to let her go when she goes off to college in 3.5 short years.

Children are such an amazing and challenging gift. They make us face the best and worst of ourselves (hearing your words come out of their mouth??? The horror!).

You’re told, when you bring them home, that the time “flies” and amidst the up-all-night exhaustion that comes with that first year… or in our case, years. You think, “I will be HERE for-EVER!” Then, one morning, you’re seeing them off to kindergarten. Suddenly, they are in that trying world of Middle School (you thought you escaped? Ha-ha! It’s baaack!). Next minute, they’ve graduated Eighth Grade and are facing High School! Oh. My. God. Only 4 years left before they belong to the WORLD… and not just you 💔.

You hope and pray that you’ve thought them self-reliance, respect, how to battle procrastination, and how to follow their “gut instinct.” Now, in High School, our daughter is faced with so many more influences… is she strong enough to be her own person? That’s where we are today: end of first term, freshman year.

Ah… the mid-term crunch! Her very first experience with HUGE exams (we tell her, the tests get bigger! The projects get harder!). And here we are: proud of our little “worker bee” studying hard to keep those A’s by doing well on her exams. All I can think is, “how did we get so lucky?” She’s not the smartest (maybe), but she is a HARD WORKER. Her drive to do well and her goal of going to an Ivy League School and on to Veterinary School is inspiring.

This drive she has… it amazes us. Neither my husband or I were brilliant students, we didn’t even try to be. We’ve never pressured our daughter to be a straight A student either. But, she knows where she wants to go. She knows what’s required to get there. And we HAVE thought her she can achieve any goal by doing the work.

To be honest, I know the Ivy League is a tough goal. Will she make it to Cornell? I don’t know. What I DO KNOW… is that if being a veterinarian is what she wants, she will get there! I believe in her and her ability to work hard and stay focused. I’d like to think we taught

her that. The truth is probably a mix: some she was born with, some was taught, and the rest reinforced ❤️.

She is truly dazzling.

#momlife #parenting #possibilities #openandbrave

Things I do When I Can’t Sleep
Personal Growth

Things I do When I Can’t Sleep

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  1. Relaxation Breathing
  2. Listen to classical music
  3. Over-think
  4. Gratitude list
  5. Read
  6. Play puzzle games
  7. Surf the net (Facebook, Instagram)
  8. Write
  9. Watch tv
  10. I’m outta ideas…

What do you do when you can’t sleep?

#inquiringminds #sleeplessnights #desperate #openandbrave

Personal Growth

Reflections on Rest and Reflection

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I’m currently on Day 3 of a migraine headache making me want to rip my head off.

How am I typing right now? Because I’m in the low throb between mind-numbing pain.

Everyone has great suggestions for headaches: lavender tea, acupuncture, neck exercises, icing neck/head, migraine meds, Excedrin, sinus treatment, caffeine… the list goes on.

I’ve tried 90% of these and I still suffer.

My answer: sleep it off. It sounds lazy, but honestly no one solution has worked consistently except REST.

Which brings me to another question… when your body malfunctions, how often do YOU find rest is the answer?

I’m not talking about real disease or illness where medical intervention is necessary.

I’m talking about headaches, pain, colds, flu, body aches and pain… your body’s way of SCREAMING at you to take a break and instead medicate to keep going. Until which point your body makes you STOP.

Why is it so hard to accept that we all, each and every human, need rest and reflection?

It seem that today rest and reflection have become “dirty” words. Action and pursuit are the only answers for success.

This year has been one of great change and goal achievement for me. It has also been a year of Listening: to my inner voice and my body.

As 2019 comes to a close and we are on the brink of a new decade, I challenge readers to reflect and evaluate where you are in personal goal achievement and personal health.

Make 2020 about BALANCE, self-care, listening to your inner voice MORE than the world’s noise on who you need to be.

Love to all.

#openandbrave

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Caterpillars Becoming Butterflies

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If you haven’t already, consider checking out The Enlightened Mind!

If you’re feeling like a puddle of goo… don’t give up! Your Butterfly days could be right around the corner!

#keepmovingforward

#openandbrave

https://theenlightenedmind622.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/caterpillars-becoming-butterflies/
— Read on theenlightenedmind622.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/caterpillars-becoming-butterflies/

Personal Growth

Be KIND

Angie
by Your Daily Encouragement

Kindness goes a long way toward smoothing out life’s rough edges.

One of life’s IMPORTANT LESSONS is learning to Agree to Disagree.

HELLO! Not the end of the world if someone you know, love, or don’t know, disagrees.

PLEASE! The world will NOT stop spinning. Nothing BAD happens when you disagree… *UNLESS you take it personally.

Our differences in experience, religion, politics, social culture, race, country, interests are what make us unique individuals!

Get to know each other BEFORE you judge! OPEN your mind and heart to learn something new!

*Be Nice.* Be respectful of opinions and choices different from your own. Our differences are what make life interesting!

Differing opinions often come from having different life experiences: growing up in a different culture, or a different time (WWII, the 70’s.), being from a different country, experience with a different religion. *None of these are BAD or GOOD. They simply ARE, they EXIST.

*Be kind.* Treat the world with kindness, and you will get kindness in return.

If you approach life, and people with an open mind and heart (kindness), the places new knowledge can come from are infinite!

When something someone says makes you question, or think about, your previously conceived thought, feeling, opinion… Do some un-biased research: look at it with new eyes. This is called learning. It’s how we grow, evolve, understand, and become more understanding ❤️.

#openyourmind #alwayslearning #bekind #evolve #openandbrave

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Where I am

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Where I am

Where I am


— Read on shesaseeker.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/me-right-now/

A great read! Don’t we all struggle with our preconceived ideas of what life “should” look like at “x” age?

“At times, I’m uncomfortable, but I’m putting in the work towards acceptance, resilience, and completeness. I am expanding and shifting. I am shedding myself off of my own judgements, notions, and unchecked biases.” Speaks to me on a gut level.

We all hit “walls” at various times in our lives. How we choose to view these so called stumbling blocks is what determines our character and our ability to achieve our dreams.

Dream, reflect, create, plan, grow!

#openandbrave

Personal Growth

When Life is Overwhelming

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Peaceful Fountain #savinrockpark

I love flowers + Beach

My snuggle pup, Ginny

Creativity ❤️

I’m so DONE with this DAY!

Sometimes life is overwhelming. I’ve been feeling it for the past month. Which is my… explanation 😉 for not Blogging for a month.

I’m not sure I’m back, but I have taken time for self-care, evaluation, and reflection. The conclusion:

  1. I need to schedule more “Me” time on a regular basis.
  2. Art feeds my soul, so do more art
  3. Routine is EVERYTHING, and I suck at it #workinprogress
  4. Sometimes it’s ok to take breathing room from your goals to reevaluate
  5. I love my life, I just need more order (see #3)
  • For now, I’m going to leave this here: pictures from the park I took a walk in this morning, art I created a few weeks ago, my snuggle pup Ginny, and a picture of me working through one of those tough “I wanna run away” days.
  • Peace. Love. Kindness.
  • #keepmovingfoward #progressnotperfection #openandbrave
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    Bad Habits: Breaking Them vs. “Braking” Them

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    Bad Habits: Breaking Them vs. “Braking” Them

    https://timemanagement1.ga/bad-habits-breaking-them-vs-braking-them/
    — Read on timemanagement1.ga/bad-habits-breaking-them-vs-braking-them/

    Very interesting. How often do we say, “I want out! … but I’m not totally ready to let go”? This article lays out some great points and tools for letting go.. fast or slow. Go at your own speed.

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    How To Regain Your Balance When Life Knocks You Down

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    How To Regain Your Balance When Life Knocks You Down

    https://makeitultrapsychology.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/how-to-regain-your-balance-when-life-knocks-you-down/
    — Read on makeitultrapsychology.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/how-to-regain-your-balance-when-life-knocks-you-down/

    Great Read! Useful for anyone who’s feeling stuck in trauma.

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    The Perfectionist in me

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    I’ve done quite a bit of self-reflection, reading/processing,and reaching out to new people and resources lately. What I have learned about me (because I don’t know YOU), is that perfectionism is the “thing” that hides my fear of failure and justifies my procrastination. I mean, Hey! If I can’t do it perfectly right out of the gate… why bother even trying? This has been my philosophy for too long.

    This year (2019) has been a HUGE year of consistently PUSHING myself out of my comfy place of “perfectionism” into that uncomfortable place of: “I don’t know how to do it, but I’mma do it anyway!” …and mess up and figure it out on the way.

    Needless to say, these past 7 months have been UN-COMFORTABLE. I mean A lot. Like, every day I want to hide and quit, but I don’t. I push forward knowing that I am capable. I will figure it out. I will achieve my goals. Everyday, I will learn and try something new (well, almost everyday). AND… it’s ok if it’s not PERFECT!! Doing it, whatever that means for the day, is the “perfect” part... the results, Eh… not so much. I leave it and know I did my best, for today.

    I don’t know if everyone struggles with the Perfectionist Monster the way I do. Maybe your fear monster is something else. That’s ok. It’s ok to acknowledge that there IS a “Fear Monster” keeping you from your goals and dreams.

    by Chibird

    The first step in any healing process, or overcoming process, is acknowledging and accepting the challenge standing between you and what you want.

    I’m going to keep being uncomfortable… until I’m not uncomfortable anymore, with THIS goal. Then, I’m sure I’ll be uncomfortable with something else. At least now I know, the thing standing between me and my dream is my expectation/need to do it perfectly right outta the gate. I ALSO know… that ain’t never gonna happen. There will always be that “one more tweak I should have known/done/said” that will be there for the next time.

    I hope you conquer your “Fear Monster” whatever it is! I hope all your dreams (and mine) come true!

    #openandbrave