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Unboxing Challenge: Update
Several months ago, I started the Unboxing Challenge. I was waking up to some of the ways in which I’d been shunning or downplaying various blessings in my life. Writing has long been how I …
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Making Peace with a Unique Destiny
I just finished reading a novel about a woman who believed herself to be cursed by god. The novel was The Sybil, by Nobel Prize winner Pär Lagerqvist. As it turns out, what the protagonist had believed was …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 9: Reading Tarot
I was 16 when I bought my first deck of cards. I don’t even know where to begin talking about how investing time in learning to read cards has enriched my life. And my own …
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Unboxing Challenge: Day 1 — Sex Hair!
Unboxing Challenge: Day 1 — Sex Hair! It took me ’til well into my 20s to embrace my natural hair texture. I grew up longing for shiny, sleek hair, because I’d internalized the nonsensical idea …
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Introducing the Unboxing Challenge!
Ready to Unbox Yourself? “Whoever the essence of us is — we are born, we are all individual, we are all unique, and we are supposed to be that exact person. We’re not supposed to …
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Unboxing Challenge: Unbox Your Divine Gifts — A Meditation
“The universe is prodigal in its support. We are miserly in what we accept. All gift horses are looked in the mouth and usually returned to sender. We say we are scared by failure, …
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Pebble in My Shoe
Last night, while walking along the river, I paused and leaned against a tree to take some gravel out of my shoe. When I glanced back at the tree after resting my hand on it, …
“Nutty” Twin Flames
Last month, I had a session with my friend who is a medium. My grandparents did most of the talking. At one point, my grandfather showed my friend the image of two peanuts in a …
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Love as a Choice
I have been reflecting a lot lately, and especially this week, on arranged marriages. And I’ve recalled a story of an arranged marriage from within my own family history, where two sweethearts were forbidden …
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Reflections from Auschwitz: Part 2
“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that …