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Remember the game of telephone? Yes that game! The fun one you played when you were little. Can you see it in your memory? Everyone...

Can I share a quick story??? It is 2008. Yep. That long ago. I mean doesn't the beginning of the pandemic seem years ago? Can I even...

I may be an Ink Slinging writer, but at one time I was The Ham Slinging skier. Let me back up to the beginning of this story... It was...

It is true! You see, years back I was flipping through People magazine in the hair salon. My scalp was burning beyond comprehension, so I...

A few months ago I was at a vision board event and the facilitator asked us to envision what our key word would be for 2020. My word was...

Turn off excessive news. If you have heard it once, it is enough. No need to keep watching the same thing over and over. Information is...

Okay. This may be my new fancy, flashy tagline. "Anxiety can be your greatest blessing." And this picture is eluding to that statement,...

Sometimes I forget and I struggle. When I remember it all seems easy, almost too easy. What is it that I keep forgetting? To align myself...

Years ago my daughter and I were making chalk drawings on our driveway and we noticed a few butterflies fly over us. And then a few more....

The New Year is such a symbolic time. It is a beginning. And just like any beginning, we have the opportunity to begin again, to start...

With anxiety, you keep going down the same road everyday- fear. And you end up in the rabbit hole- symptoms. And you feel stuck. And it...

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get a picture by the Rockefeller Christmas Tree without anyone else around, but it was...

Yeah, this is my wedding day over 22 years ago. It was December and it was freezing! I can see everything in this picture now. I see us...

As we grow older sometimes we tend to hide parts of ourselves that we believe others may not find acceptable. So we shrink, we hide, we...

I love this picture and message! On a personal note, this is the picture I used for one of my very first blog posts. Although I am not...

This is a picture of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. It was one of the places I visited on my Icelandic vacation a few years ago. Iceland in...

It is so easy to stay satisfied with where you are in life. Like a walk up a grand staircase, you stop on a step to take it all in and...

Last night I was watching the Charlie Brown Halloween special.... as I do every year. I grew up on these holiday specials and I still...

I spent way too much time long ago preoccupied with the idea that my value was measured by other people. I forced relationships to hang...

This is so different from last year. Last year my oldest child, my son, made the decision to go to college 11 hours from home. I tried so...

Dear Beautiful You, It has been some time since my last post. I took some much needed time for self-care and self-reflection. As some of...

Dear Beautiful You, My oldest daughter was that kid that always wearing a princess dress. I mean always. Her absolute favorite was her...

Dear Beautiful You, My son and daughter have taught me so much about the "new" college world. It is a world filled with anxiety from...

When I first realized that my anxiety was more than just fleeting, that I actually had an anxiety condition, was when I was brought face...