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The Authentic Voice Project

Posted in Authentic Voice Project, Emerging Voice, Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

  For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit Words. Manifestations of our thoughts. Creators of our internal messages. Words have and continue to shape history and people – not always positively and sometimes with devastating consequences. Words have an affect on us, more powerful [...]

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Dear Fearful Ones…

Posted in Living Authentically, Thinking Positively on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I offer you another recycled post about facing Fear. I wrote this two years ago during a time of transition. In hindsight I can see that 2009 was a pivotal year for me when I was learning that trying to control life (and the emotions that arise in response to it) is like trying to [...]

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Tolerating Fear

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on July 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »

This is a recycled post from a couple of years ago. With summer in full , hot swing, the kids are home most days of the week leaving me very little chance to write (the beach and my laptop aren’t great friends). I am yearning to write but when I do have a moment I [...]

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Trust the Process (pt 9): The Body Knows

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Thinking Positively on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

As I enter the final week of my first year of graduate school I wonder if, as all Goddard College advisors urge, I have truly trusted the process? This semester has been a rough one time-wise, emotionally and physically. Those of you who have kept up with this blog over the last couple of years [...]

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When opportunity knocks… and hands you a gift

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I received a card through the mail. Inside was a magnet that read: “When opportunity knocks don’t be the one who says, ‘Can somebody get that?’” This gift was from Kay Adams, founder and director of the Center for Journal Therapy, and it represents a bigger gift which she gave me when she called out [...]

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We plan. Life laughs.

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , on January 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Well, here we are. Five days into 2011 and I am finally getting to my computer. I had big plans. My goals for work, school, housework, and this blog were all spelled out in my January 1 journal entry. I had my running shoes on and I was just waiting for the starting gun, i.e. [...]

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A time to reflect

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Thinking Positively on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. — Anne Bradstreet   Dear Readers, It is four days before Christmas and my to-do list is long. My children finish school for Christmas break as of 3:15 today. For the [...]

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Trust the Process, pt 3 (The Question)

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, Thinking Positively, tagged on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The mantra at Goddard College is “Trust the process.” Every day one or more faculty advisors included in their discussion, “… and, well, trust the process. It works.” With no syllabus or course curriculum most of us newbies, those who had been educated in a strictly outlined, non-critically-thinking fashion (oh, that would be all of [...]

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New Writing and Wellness Center Opens

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Thinking Positively, Writing & Career, tagged , on May 19, 2010 | 12 Comments »

New Writing and Wellness Center Opens By: Joanna Young, Reporter for Wisdom Within, Ink Rutland, Vermont: In the midst of Rutland City, there is a tiny haven. It stands behind a fence on a residential street and started life as a garage. However, it now heeds a higher calling. The Writer’s Refuge is a place [...]

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Validation: Watch and smile!

Posted in Thinking Positively on March 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

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