Having It “All Together” Made Me Feel Like I was Falling Apart

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  For decades I have felt the overwhelming pressure to “have it all together” in life. Consciously: I thought I was being a good, hard working, responsible girl. I was doing what I was supposed to do. Subconsciously: I’ve been carrying a 550 lb boulder of “hurry up and get there” on my shoulders. You […]

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Life is hard. The truth is simple. (How a Piece of Me Died in 2018)

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2018 was a groundbreaking and weird year. It was in February that I started feeling “off”. Life was not easily falling into place . . . life was not in flow. I was doing all of the “right things”: I was living life the way I “successfully” had in the past; applying a similar formula […]

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