Category: Personal development
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Fine Tuning Yourself
The Ongoing Battle with Stress and Anxiety for Sensitive People When it comes to finding solutions to curb stress and anxiety, I’m a serious advocate. There’s no denying we can’t wipe stress from our lives forever, but there are ways to lighten the load by making healthy choices as we go about our day. We…
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Voices
A Strange Poem When I look inside myself, who do I see? A frightened little girl stared back at me. She listens to raised voices, harsh and cruel, They scream at her; she is a fool. Desperate to escape the noise, She hides in her closet with her friends, her toys. She sits in the…
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Enjoy the Holidays this Year and Throw Stress Out the Window!
This year I told myself I wasn’t going to get caught up in all the holiday hype. As I’ve grown older, hopefully, wiser, I’ve learned a last-minute mad rush to buy the perfect gift, or risk being told off by someone in the parking lot because I mistakenly took their place, or their toy, isn’t…
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My Love of Languages
I still ask myself how I found the time and energy to teach English ESL to Spanish-speaking children for twenty years, four days a week while working at our ranch on the weekends. The school was a one-room classroom with a bathroom and an office area next to my house in the city. I taught…
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A Test of Wills
Our horses are the stars at our ranch. Many people who visit us are not experienced riders but our horses accommodate all levels of riding abilities. They climb rocky trails and maneuver down steep canyons without a single hitch in their pace. They were born and raised in this rugged country. This is their land.…
Stories From the Heart 