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On “Unburdening”
It’s a new year and time for new goals! This year, however, instead of adding to my list of to-do’s, I decided to do an about-turn and actively strike things off! My word for the year is “unburdened.” And I’m framing my goals this year as: “This year, I choose to unburden myself of …” As women in our midlife years, we’re all living such busy lives, sandwiched between rising careers, growing children, aging parents, and whatever time we can eke out for a social life, rest, and self-care. No matter how efficiently we handle each day, we know that…
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On Happiness as an Act of Rebellion
There is much literature out there on how to find, create, or manifest happiness in our lives. However, I would like to propose an alternate way of pursuing happiness — and I call it happiness as an act of rebellion. Per this point of view, I encourage us to tap into the feisty, resilient, and defiant sides of our beings, and to think about happiness as an act of rebelling against all the forces in our life that would keep us from it. I think it’s undeniable that a large part of life is what I call “the grind.” No…
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On Breaking Generational Patterns
As we embark into a new year and creating new goals, I believe that one other important task each of us can also adopt is identifying and committing to breaking at least one generational pattern that no longer serves us. This is deep, reflective, difficult work, but it also is so rewarding and can pave the way for profound fulfillment and relief. Whether we are are fully aware of it or not, we are all impacted by generational patterns that no longer serve us. There are obvious and dangerous patterns that most of us are aware we need to break…
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On Being a “Non-Competitor” & “Non-Influencer”
We currently live in a culture with a lot of focus on being bigger, faster, stronger, achieving, succeeding, accomplishing, and generally just getting after more, and more, and more! And we also live in an influencer society, where there’s a lot of value attached to having a platform and having a voice that reaches as many people as possible. But, if left unchecked, both of these can be draining, distracting, and perhaps even detrimental to our lives. To be clear, I am not against competing or influencing. I have competed a fair amount in my life — I competed to…
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On Post-Partum Depression
I’ve always wanted to make a written record of my episode with post-partum depression (a) in case it helps even just one other person who experienced or is experiencing it and (b) as a reminder of how lucky I am to not battle with depression under ordinary circumstances. First, I’d like to say to all the moms out there who got through the first few newborn months without even experiencing the “baby blues,” hats off to you! My first gripe is that society has normalized childbirth and the care of a newborn as something that’s pretty straightforward and just “what women…
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