Tag: control
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Big A and The Suze
What were your parents doing at your age? I left for Colorado at 18 years old, with a back pack, a couple hundred bucks and attitude to spare. Flipping the middle finger as I walked out the door. After a few years in Vail, suffering through a perfect storm of self-inflicted emotional turmoil and humiliation;…
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Easy to Love
I recently realized how much of my life I have spent trying to be, ‘Easy to Love’. Be small when you need to be, invisible even. Be funny when you need to, be a good time. Bite your tongue. Absorb and reflect other’s energy so they feel comfortable. Be relaxed, if that’s not possible, at…
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Anger Management
My oldest son once said to me, around 8 years old, “You know mom, the only thing that makes you really mad is when other people get mad.” It’s true. Not the emotion of anger, but the inability to control it, particularly in the presence of children, is one of my biggest triggers. We had…
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Be Yourself
“People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you know what it is, even.” ~ Angela, My So Called Life Right on Angela. We’ve been hearing this one forever, right? Almost as long as “He bullies you because he LIKES you.” “Just be…
little victories 