mental-health

  • Tend Your Garden

    There are days when my garden is sunny and green. The flowers in the corner are bright pink; I planted them there the first time I had something published and people called me a writer. Some sunflowers in the side yard by the fence are a compliment someone paid me about my sunny personality. The

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  • Do It Scared

    I’ve been sitting in the dark for the last half an hour or so, frozen. I have a bunch of things to do, some of which are work and some of which are fun, but I can’t move.  Tomorrow I am going to do a very big thing. It doesn’t really matter what it is.

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  • As Pretty Lynne, I usually write about things when they are going well, or when I’ve got it all figured out. Today is a little bit different.  Most days, I feel great about being a single woman. I am smart and capable and can figure out how to do things I haven’t had to do

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  • Older

    “You’re so pretty,” my friend said to me. It was one of those nights you have with friends where everyone drinks a lot and the conversation turns to how much you all love each other.  “You should have seen her 10 years ago,” another friend said. I laughed at him, but I am a slow

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  • Let Everything Happen

    It’s a major tenet of Buddhism, as I understand it, that suffering is caused by resistance. Accept what is happening to and around you, and move in strength from there.  So often your brain tells you “No, it can’t be true that X is happening,” when in fact, X is very much happening. X is

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  • The Thousand Things

    Remember Tumblr? It was the first social media for many of us. I got to see the pretty pictures and the poetry, but luckily skipped the drama.  I couldn’t tell you who wrote it or what the rest of the poem said, but this line from a Tumblr post stays with me even all these

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