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Just Breathe...and Notice

English - Parenting, Aspergers, Looking For Beauty
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 3d ago

Dear Time magazine, you suck.

Pun intended. Heh. So I know I'm woefully late to this party, but I've been all indecisive and angsty about whether or not I wanted to share my thoughts on the Time kerfuffle. It's funny -- I seem to have...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 1M ago

Cyanocobalamin -- A Love Affair

A few months ago I realized that I hadn't had a physical in 5 years. Well, I didn't actually realize it a few months ago -- I knew it had been a while but it took over a year to...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 1M ago

A birthday gift

Ean turned 10 yesterday. Ten. Double-digits. A "tween". Don't ask him how he's feeling about this unless you want to watch him wrestle with his anxiety about how time is slipping away, each birthday representing another year lost. Another year...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 3M ago

A shout out to my friends inside the computer....

Twelve years ago (this week, actually!), when the internet was a nascent wobbly-legged toddler and social media was not even a twinkle in a certain Aspergian's eye, I got engaged. Rich proposed in France, or at least the most earnest...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 4M ago

Twenty-Eleven: The Out-Takes

OK, so last year wasn't JUST about woeful introspection: my naval-gazing and brow-furrowed contemplation was occasionally interrupted by lighter moments. So here's what ELSE I learned in 2011: 1 - You should be paranoid when backing out of a parking...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 4M ago

Auld Lang Syne

I'm not gonna lie: 2011 was not my favorite year. It was a year of losing someone very dear to me. It was a year of loneliness. It was a year of failing, time and time again, to really do...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 5M ago

Why can't he just ask how babies are made?!?

I think I've mentioned before that Ean struggles with anxiety (apple/tree, right?). His anxiety peaked last spring/summer and included both panic attacks and some very unsettling intrusive and obsessive thoughts. I did what I could to help him manage it,...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 6M ago

Free(ish)

Back in July I made the decision to stop my meds for OCD/anxiety. I had been taking zoloft for several years and experienced very few side effects aside from the dreaded (and common) weight gain. I started gaining weight almost...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 7M ago

More unpacking

When I wrote about my writing weekend, I was so excited to articulate the feelings of authenticity and fearlessness I experienced that I neglected to share what I learned about what it means to be (and become) a writer. First...
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Just Breathe...and Notice · 7M ago

Unpacking

So, the writing weekend. Wow. It was so many things.... I was my typical hand-wringing self the week before leaving. It's entirely possible that I put more thought into packing my suitcase than I did into my grad-school thesis. I...
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