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Remember this one? – Overcoming Health Anxiety

3 May 20199 Feb 2023

I can’t talk about this book without talking about myself. I don’t have a light case or dabble in it… I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

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Overcoming Health Anxiety – I told you I was sick

23 Jan 20189 Oct 2019

I can't talk about this book without talking about myself. I don't have a light case or dabble in it... I am fully immersed into a life of health anxiety.…

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Anxiety, Phobias, & Panic – A billion trillion +1

9 Jul 20199 Oct 2019

Anxiety, Phobias, & Panic by Reneau Z. Peurifoy, MA, MFT, is the book that other books about the subject would recommend. "Don't bother with me," they'd say. "It's the perfect…

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Fear does not prevent death it prevents life – Author unknown but I could have said it myself

As I drove into the driveway last night after work, I looked up and saw my headlights illuminating a vine-y heart. I pulled out my phone and snapped this shot.…

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Checking In – Checking Out

Friends and readers, it has been an amazing journey so far! The person who checked into the hospital is not the one who checked out. That's for darned sure! I…

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Five Years – It’s an Inside Job

20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023

I can't tell you how many times I've written, erased, and come back to write again. There's so much to say and yet, so little. It will make sense, I…

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My Vision Board 2023 – You Need to Make One, Too!

23 Feb 202323 Feb 2023

Those who have been around a while know I take my vision board(ing) very seriously! In the past five years, I've had... A Vision line with tiny "clothespins" and lights…

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As far as the eye can see…

3 Feb 20239 Feb 2023

The featured photo was taken along the shore of Lake Ontario. I love looking out across... how it seems to go on and on... Life is like that... Today, we…

Photo Journal – Oh, the places we’ve been!

16 May 20229 Feb 2023

Mom and I had a fantabulous week! The plane ride to and from was okay, too... but getting to the tarmac on time proved to be a pain in the…

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Runes – Another neat thing to toss into your self-help kit

14 Apr 202214 Apr 2022

I haven’t had Runes - actual Runes - until recently, though I did have rune(s) cards (thanks to Mom!). I liked the cards a lot but always wanted an actual…

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The Mindful Way Through Depression – This Navel Gazer Approves

29 Mar 20229 Feb 2023

Mindfulness = To "Pay attention on purpose." -pg. 47 I have to say something first. *ahem* The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon…

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The Shift – Part 1 – His life’s meaning

3 Nov 20219 Feb 2023

I've mentioned the late Dr. Wayne Dyer more than once. In fact, the first time I mentioned him just happens to be in my very first post for this blog!…

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Love, Medicine & Miracles – What took so long?

19 Oct 20219 Feb 2023

"People need to know they have an option. You can focus living in the present moment, or you can get wrapped up in the horrors of the future and let…

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Mind to Matter – It all begins with a thought…

26 Aug 20219 Feb 2023

I'm going to tell you a few things right up front... This is a Mom's PickThis will take a commitment of at least a week (or in my case, a…

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What’s Your Poo Telling You? – Funny you should ask!

23 Jul 20219 Feb 2023

Let's get a few jokes out of the way first: Wanna hear a poop joke?Nah, they always stink. What did one piece of toilet paper say to another?“I’m feeling really…

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YOU The Owner’s Manual – Prescription: Take the next 371 pages and call them in the morning

12 Jul 20219 Feb 2023

"Welcome to your body. Why don't you come on in and take a look around?" - Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. It will surprise you -…

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Breath – Confession: It was torture

18 Mar 20219 Feb 2023

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. - From the inside…

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Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…

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Remember this one?* – Ordinarily Well

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander… he is a psychiatrist and scholar.…

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Your Body Believes Every Word You Say – One of the truest titles, ever!

18 Nov 20209 Feb 2023

Reading Your Body Believes Every Word You Say by the late Barbara Hoberman Levine (2014) wasn't easy. After all, I suffer, as you know, from health anxiety. <<< Link to…

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Remember this one?* – Moody Bitches

14 Oct 20209 Feb 2023

“Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren’t developing cures; they’re creating customers.” ― Julie Holland Moody…

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Remember this one?* – This is Me

"Honeybees are meaningful to me because technically they’re not supposed to be able to fly. We know they do, but in the 1930s, French scientists ‘proved’ they couldn’t. Their reasoning…

Picture of the Day – In search of breath & flowers

I am sure I'm not alone in saying I hate Covid-19. I hate that a whole spring and summer was spent inside and that we finally went to the mall…

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Remember this one?* – Always Looking Up

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.” ― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist How can you not love…

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Remember this one? – One of my favorite posts of all time! The Apothecary Museum

16 Jun 20209 Feb 2023

I love museums. When we were young, my parents set aside Sunday as our museum day. We’d get dressed, go to Bojax Restaurant (a family-style restaurant that’s long-since closed) and…

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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Apropos

3 Apr 20203 Apr 2020

“Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in…

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Remember this one? – Will I Ever Be Good Enough?

12 Feb 202012 Feb 2020

Do I notice the irony of the subtitle on this blog post? Why yes, yes I do. It's taken me a long time to write about Will I Ever Be Good…

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Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

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Remember this one? – The Girl on the Train

25 Sep 201925 Sep 2019

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is kinda/sorta like the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Not in their storyline… but in the way, they are told. See, they both…

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Fiction as Self-Help – Turtles All The Way Down – Never has there been a more appropriate book for the Fiction as Self-Help Category!

20 Jun 201915 Sep 2021

I almost don't know where to begin. Turtles All The Way Down is by the same guy (John Green) who wrote The Fault in our Stars, which I didn't read…

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Remember this one? – I’m Looking Through You

28 May 20199 Feb 2023

Jennifer Finley Boylan is an amazing woman! Before picking up this audio book at the library, I’d never heard of her. I listened to it and then – by a…

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Remember this one? – Promptings

15 May 20199 Feb 2023

Find out who you are and then give yourself away. Kody Bateman Usually, the books I share are familiar to pretty-much everyone. But every once in a while, I find…

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A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 2

12 Mar 20199 Feb 2023

This (probably/obviously) follows up A Series – The Tapping Solution – Part 1. The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner is an amazing book and program. That said, I have a confession... and it pains…

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The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Hey! That’s what I was gonna name MY book!

10 Mar 20199 Feb 2023

If you're like me, you think I've already written about this book. In fact, I haven't. We are confusing it with this "last book" I wrote about in October, 2018. The…

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Remember this one? – Kitchen Table Wisdom

10 Jan 201916 Jan 2019

The cover is soft, pliable… and the pages aren’t cut to straight edges. They look torn, as if from a journal or ancient book of poetry. This is something you…

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Remember this one? – A Year to Live

Stephen Levine passed away last year. Before he did, he worked tirelessly to help others approach their own deaths. He wrote best sellers about what he learned from other’s travels and…

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Remember this one? – Second Sight – The Isle of Avalon

28 Nov 201828 Nov 2018

It was my mother, once again*, who introduced me to the work of this author and her books. Judith Orloff, M.D. is a doctor (you noticed the M.D.?) and yet, she acknowledges…

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Remember this one?- A man named Turtle and his excellent website

Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom will keep you busy for a few days… weeks… okay, months. To be clear from the onset, I do not know him personally nor am I getting…

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When a Parent is Depressed – Even the dog suffers!

30 Oct 20189 Oct 2019

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn't write today. I did a "Remember this one?" post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again... into the spiral…

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Ordinarily Well – Back on the shelf, you go!

29 Sep 20189 Feb 2023

Ordinarily Well by Peter D. Kramer is about antidepressants. More to the point, it is about if they work. Kramer is not merely a bystander... he is a psychiatrist and…

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Moody Bitches – Do we need fixing?

25 Aug 20189 Oct 2019

“Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren’t developing cures; they’re creating customers.” ― Julie Holland Moody…

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Suicide hotline numbers

Someone dies from suicide every 40 seconds

United States 1 800 273 8255

Canada 1 800 456 4566