One powerful way to cultivate self-compassion is by writing daily, allowing our uncensored thoughts and feelings to flow onto the page.
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December’s Mysteries and Dreams
It’s December. There’s a mystery to the season. As Mary Oliver writes in her poem, “Mysteries, Yes”: “Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.”
Writing and Self-Compassion
When a book club hosted me last week after selecting Again in a Heartbeat as their monthly read, I repeated, as I have many times over the years, that writing the book helped me forgive myself.
The Woman with Red Fingernails
An aspiring blogger and mother with two grown daughters, she was just beginning to revel in her newfound independence. Now was her time. As she pushed her bicycle home on the war-torn streets of Bucha, it was another day in the life of everywoman. Her dream to become a make-up artist energized her. As sheContinue reading “The Woman with Red Fingernails”
