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On Shedding Light & Seeing Self
Have the words or actions of another ever made you feel invisible and insignificant? Has someone close to you ever minimized your talents and achievements, causing you to feel small and unimportant? Have you ever wandered through life feeling as though you will never measure up…never be enough…never be seen…never be heard? I have. How we view ourselves is deeply rooted in the level of love, support and approval we received from the beginning. When encouragement, acceptance and recognition are absent, it wounds us. And it can oftentimes take more time to heal from those wounds than it did to create them. Some never recover…while others only live…
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Filling her cup…last Tuesday morning
Last Tuesday morning, I had a deep conversation with my oldest daughter during the car ride to school. She’s emerging, working on becoming a young lady, dreaming of her future, forming thoughts and opinions of her own. She’s at what I feel is the most critical point of a young girl’s life…the point when you ultimately step into the person you will become. And of course, as her mother, it is my duty to guide her as she decides what that new person will look like. With this emergence comes growing pains. I don’t mean the random, and sometimes bizarre, physical aches and pains that come with transitioning from childhood…