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the difference a conversation makes
One of the people I admire most, said something to me this past year that has resonated, reverberated and proven itself to be very true over and over again.
It is amazing the difference one single conversation can make.
when doing happy doesn’t make happy
Over the Christmas break I took my firstborn to her doctor. She had not been feeling right for a few months. She was anxious, sad and very tired. I had offered lists and strategies throughout the Fall, as I am prone to do, of sure fire ways to feel better. Nothing seemed to work. Because she is 20, I drop her at the doctors. I do not go in with her, I do not hold her lovingly on my lap, I do not speak for her, I do not protect her, I do not manage next steps. Instead, I go grocery shopping and hope for the best.