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As a Therapist

I was recently asked how being a therapist has impacted me as a person and how I hold emotional space for those in my life, here are my reflections.

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Balanced Reflection

Let's face it; we've all been talking about how terrible 2020 has been. As I reflected on that recently, after reading a friend's Instagram post (expressing guilt) noting that it was an excellent year for her, I tried to shift myself to a more balanced perspective.

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Book Review: The Henna Artist

Joshi wove together themes of social inequality, complex relationships, feminism and culture exquisitely and I ate it up.

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My Last Book of My First Reading Challenge

This is it! My last book of my 2020 Reading Challenge. My only remaining prompt was "A fiction or non-fiction book about a world leader," and I figured there was no better choice than Barack Obama's memoir released just this month.

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21 Days of Calm

I’m starting off November challenging myself to “21 Days of Calm.”

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A Magical Connection

Living far from my family, my husband and I purchased a Cuddle + Kind doll and created a unique way of connecting with our first nephew from a distance.

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Love Languages

Gary Chapman wrote a book called “The Five Love Languages,” which discusses the idea that we all give and receive love differently.

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Book Review: Anxious People

Backman immediately drew me in with his book “Anxious People.” Between calling his characters idiots and his description of the everyday chaos of being an adult, I was laughing out loud within the first couple of pages.

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Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom

When I realized that Yaa Gyasi was releasing a second book, I was ecstatic. I loved "Homegoing" and have already read it multiple times. So, I picked up "Transcendent Kingdom" and excitedly dug in.

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Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

- Margaret Atwood