Love yourself

"We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never...

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Reevaluating the path

Since there are usually many paths to the same goal, we would benefit by engaging in periodic reviews of our plans and goals to determine whether we are still proceeding in the best way to accomplish our objectives. This review might provide an insight or idea that we wouldn’t have considered...

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Unresolved issues

My intention was to get back into full swing with blogging again, but I'm still lacking focus and concentration due to all that has gone on with The Captain's surgery, his recovery and life in general.   Best way I can describe it . . .  I'm feeling numb. There are so many...

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Healing Wounds

Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Francis Bacon The culprits that cause emotional wounds are much the same the world over. Loss, neglect, abuse and rejection leave scars on the human heart, and the earlier these traumas happen in life, the deeper they are inflicted. Recovery is...

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Root out fear

The quest of the week has been to confront the fear that has consumed me on a number of levels. Sometimes circumstances throw us for a loop and no amount of positive thinking will change the impact it has on us . . . at least in those situations where it is out of our control. Things happen...

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Days with tears

Catch me if I fall I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way Lyrics from the song Faith . . . The Cure Today was supposed to be my day of rest since I've been going like the energizer bunny.  As it turns out, it is anything but restful, instead I've got the worst case of anxiety I've...

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Be back soon

The Captain has been in the hospital recovering from surgery and I have had limited access to the internet.  I sure do miss posting to my blogs! Hope to be back to blogging as soon as life returns to normal . . . whatever that is :) ...

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