Coronavirus taught me a valuable lesson – forgiveness. After about two years of not speaking with my father, I decided to speak with him today. It was easy and hard … Read more
Category: Relationships
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Staying away from other people’s roller coasters
My friend Dimi is a wise, wise person. I was telling him about how I was fretting about someone else’s anxieties and he asked me why I was getting anxious … Read more
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Please don’t help me
… Read moreThere is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don’t be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not
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We are more similar than different
I watched the movie Arrival this afternoon which is about aliens who arrive on Earth and how the linguistic professor, Louise Banks, decodes their language to understand what they’re trying … Read more
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Friendships
… Read more“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais
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Lessons from Beth March
I just had a good cry this afternoon. I am reading Little Women for the second time (the first time was more than a decade ago) and today I read … Read more
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Self-forgiveness
… Read more“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
– Charlotte Brontë
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How to create a connection with others
“Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”
~ Brene BrownWhen I was a teenager, I was generally an angry and competitive … Read more
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Do you make other people’s problems your own?
I had an interesting experience this morning which got me thinking quite deeply about how I end up making other people’s problems my own. A friend told me how an … Read more