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Category: Self-Help Whispering

It’s not just books… and it’s amazing where you can find self-help stuff…

Self-Help Whispering

Old Habits

6 Jun 2023
The quote on the featured photo spoke to me this morning. It’s certainly not a new message. Airlines, for example, have been telling us to use oxygen on ourselves first…
Self-Help Whispering

Chicken Soup For My Soul… and Crackers

5 Jun 2023
When I was a little girl and home sick, Mom would prepare chicken noodle soup. On a little plate next to the soup, she would add Saltine crackers with a…
Photography…

“In My Own Backyard” Photo Journal- Also, I’m Depressed

2 Jun 20232 Jun 2023
As mentioned a hundred thousand times, the last year has been a sickathon of epic proportions. Around the time of my surgery (in October 2022) I stopped taking my antidepressants.…
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The Job Interview & Dad

25 May 202325 May 2023
You guys... I have been - is it boring to hear again? - sick. Yes, still. Ugh. I've been to the docs a half dozen times over as many months.…
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Home & Healing With a Hint of Gross

14 May 202314 May 2023
While on vacation with my incredible daughter and family, she presented me with a gift bag full of whimsy. There were crystals, a Tree of Life necklace, a handmade felt…
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Gone Visitin’ in Sunny California

8 May 20238 May 2023
I started a blog post on the day I left for California (last Thursday) and figured I would finish it up from my phone when I had a moment. Hahaha…
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Solitude~ A True Short Story

29 Apr 2023
I’ve been sick for weeks. In reality, it’s been months. It was COVID last summer, surgery in October, pneumonia last month, and bronchitis this month. It’s wearing me down, both…
Self-Help Whispering

Raphael, Monkey, and Healer – Oh, my!

22 Apr 202322 Apr 2023
You know I talk to animals. I want to get better at it because there are some things I need to talk to my cats about. Actually, I'm serious. Bette…
Self-Help Whispering

Bonus Post – Reborn from the Ashes

22 Apr 2023
I just love my coloring books! This one was done with regular, glitter & metallic gel pens. Just wanted to share!
Self-Help Whispering

Bio-Moment – Meet Sherry

22 Apr 2023
As you can see, you have entered the halls of my teeny, tiny art gallery. My inner child is in charge of this one... her name is Sherry, which is…
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Easy like Sunday – Haiku: Creation

22 Apr 2023
I love drawing and coloring! My inner child gets positively giddy! I need Spring to hurry. Does it help anything that we woke up to snow flurries? Ahhhh … Nope!…
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Fear does not prevent death it prevents life – Author unknown but I could have said it myself

22 Apr 2023
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.…
Self-Help Whispering

Checking In – Checking Out

22 Apr 2023
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…
Self-Help Whispering

Shane’s Dream – The Campfire

22 Apr 2023
We're in the "nesting" phase of our training at work now. It's six weeks surrounded by people who will help us through the rough patches of the new job. There…
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A short video – Rainbows on the wall 🌈🌈🌈

22 Apr 2023
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What’s the weather like there? What are you doing today?

22 Apr 202322 Apr 2023
I know you'll forgive me for not reading and writing about books right now. It's been a week and two days since Dad died... and... well, I don't feel like…
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A SHORT NOTE ~ April 22, 2023

22 Apr 202327 Apr 2023
You will be seeing some old posts that you may have seen before pop up today. As I've mentioned recently, I went through and purged some of my more personal…
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Note to self: I can’t paint. (But I sure had fun trying!)

20 Apr 2023
You guys! I had so much fun with this kid's palette I picked up from the dollar store! I don't know what made me do it... but I sure am…
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Tiny Photo Journal: A Short Walk on a Spectacular Day!

13 Apr 2023
It seems like only last year that I was walking, walking, walking for my health and happiness (along with talking to Dad on the other side - and his leaving…
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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…
Photography…

Haiku: Aglow

18 Mar 2023
Bette in silhouette A study in reverie Watching the flames dance.
Self-Help Whispering

Is Surrender the Same as Submission?

11 Mar 202311 Mar 2023
At first blush, these two words seem... almost... identical! Submit: Oxford Languages sub·mit /səbˈmit/ To accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another…
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Ta Da, Told You So!

8 Mar 2023
Today’s journal entry. Apropos because I have just gone through a medical thingie that could have been avoided had they simply listened to me when I told them what was…
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Message From Boaz

5 Mar 20235 Mar 2023
Since yesterday evening, I've been working on a project that is keeping me engaged but not active, considering I still can't breathe and now I've added "can't talk" to the…
Photography…

Winter Pals

3 Mar 2023
So, I guess there is yet another side to my word this year: Surrender. It’s an even more primal acceptance of the FACT that something is **really** wrong with my…
Self-Help Whispering

Haiku: Nope!

28 Feb 2023
Let me see out there. I think I’ll just take a step. *lifts paw, shakes off* NOPE!
Self-Help Whispering

I Give Up!

27 Feb 202327 Feb 2023
I have a Word for 2023. Do you know what it is? Here it is almost the end of February and I haven't made an art project about it or…
Photography…

A reminder from my friends

24 Feb 202324 Feb 2023
When I left my long-time job at the newspaper to manage the cat centre, this kitty was part of a menagerie of cats that decorated my desk! I keep it…
Self-Help Whispering

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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I haven’t written a post like this for a million years

10 Feb 202310 Feb 2023
Back in the day when I was a very prolific writer on ye olde message boards (think late 1990s-early 2000s), I would be up late at night for one reason…
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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…
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Whispered Word: Simplicity

29 Jan 202329 Jan 2023
Photography…

What I See Now vs. Then

26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023
You may know that we moved on the first of the month - a new beginning for a new year. Yeah, we're goofy like that! We lived in our last…
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Blurry: A Haiku

15 Jan 2023
I miss you most when I have something to tell you. It won’t be long now.
Self-Help Whispering

Another day gone by…

9 Jan 2023
Hi Friends & Readers, from the land of Boxville Corners, where everywhere you turn is boxes, boxes, boxes… as far as the eye can see! I have not dropped off…
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2023: The View From Here

30 Dec 2022
For those who don't know... our little family is moving the first week of January 2023. Lovely time of year for it, don'tcha think? LOL So, you may have noticed…
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Gaia International Alliance Humanity Leaders Top Pick Award 2023

18 Dec 20225 Mar 2023
I am blessed and humbled to have been chosen as a Top Pick Humanitarian Leader for Gaia International Alliance for 2023. Gaia International Alliance created the Gaia International Alliance Humanity…
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2023: Year of Surrender

9 Dec 20229 Feb 2023
I can't believe I've been here for five years! Amaze-balls, as the kids say. Wait? They don't say that anymore? Well, that's embarrassing. Of all the ideas I've had over…
Self-Help Whispering

Harold & Maude – And me, too.

22 Nov 2022
If you've been reading along you know that I was off to California to spend Thanksgiving with my grandson and his parents (my daughter and her hubby)... oh, about three…
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Self-Help: Another Little Thing (and a Bigger Thing, too!)

5 Oct 2022
Isn't that a lovely little candle holder in my featured photo? What you don't know is that it was never a candle holder at all. It was - actually -…
Self-Help Whispering

Little treasures – Are you my wand?

3 Oct 2022
I went in search of a wand. It’s a long story about a class I took over the weekend. Perhaps I’ll share about that on another day. I wanted the…

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