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Being Me:  Week 51 Be kind to unkind people, they need it most
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope
When I finally understood that someone being unkind was more about them than about me, my heart softened a bit and I began to recognize the pain that must be going on inside that person.
And while it is hard to not take...

You can always give something, even if it's only kindness. 
Being Me: Week 50 - Sometimes giving back can actually save you
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope 
It's funny how I stumbled upon kindness to save me, how it grew into a season of hope instead of a spell of despair. For so long grief held me hostage, echoes of living...

There are only a handful of pictures of Ryan, five years of memories frozen in time of a little boy who we never saw grow to be the young man of 32 today. These photos stir up moments of the past with a smile and a tear, as I reminisce the life we once shared. 
Pain has a way of blurring the present, making us forget the simple details of a wonderful life. And even though loss is random, I could...

"When you learn, teach, when you get, give." ~Maya Angelou 
Being Me: Week 49 Be the reason someone smiles today
December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, & most underrated agent of hope
We all know it's better to give than receive, and since losing Ryan I have learned first hand how powerful giving can be. Like the many lessons we master through each season...

Interrupt anxiety with gratitude 
Being Me: Week 48
November theme: Interrupt anxiety with gratitude
Interrupt anxiety with gratitude is a saying I have been seeing quite often lately. It is a method to help calm anxiety, with small lessons to remind us that whatever the future holds for us, we have the means, family, support, and courage to make it through. 
We can allow our thoughts to be...

"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour." 
For over 25 years I have shared stories of Ryan. Stories of heartbreak and sadness, sweet moments and memories and the treasure of pictures where I reminisce in the joy of his smile. But the one story I have never told, the one that has been locked down...

Gratitude turns what we have into enough 
Being Me Week 47: Be grateful when things are going your way. Be graceful when they are not
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
Gratitude is not about just being grateful for things when they are going your way, but also and probably more importantly, to see the good when things are not going as you had hoped.
Being...

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." 
Being Me:  Week 46 What consumes your mind, controls your life
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
I always regret the time I wasted worrying over something in the future, the way my mind plans how things will unfold, causing a worry I cannot control. A few words...

Gratitude helps us see what is there instead of what isn't 
Being Me: Week 45 (Count your rainbows not your thunderstorms)
November theme: Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
Why is it so hard for most of us to view our lives with the glass half full instead of half empty? Is it our past circumstances that dictate our future thoughts, or are we prone to being negative positive...

 
"I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all." ~ Simone Biles 
Being Me:  Week 44 - In the end we only regret the chance we did not take
October theme: We can't become what we want by remaining what we are
 There will always be things in life we regret. Chances we did not take, time we did not spend. But the biggest lesson of regret is the insight...