I used to believe that being a good person was about being kind and giving to others. But over the course of some years, I have come to realize the importance of allowing other people to be kind to me as well. Most of us are experts at giving kindness. When someone is ill and […]
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I’ve come to realize that how I start my mornings shapes the rest of my day. For years, I used to jump right into emails, messages, or the list of things waiting for me. And by mid-morning, I was already running on fumes. It wasn’t until I asked myself, “What truly fills me up? What’s my juice in the morning? that things began to shift.
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When I was a kid in the 1970s, ADHD wasn’t something girls were supposed to have. Boys who bounced off the walls might get flagged, sometimes even medicated. Girls who talked too much, daydreamed too long, or forgot their homework again? We were just “chatty,” “scattered,” or “not living up to our potential.”
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Miss Muffet’s reaction to the spider reminds us of how we often respond when faced with the unexpected or unknown.
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As I’ve aged—and especially now, in what I refer to as the autumn of my life—I’ve noticed changes in my physical strength. Muscles tire more quickly, daily tasks require more energy, and my body no longer responds quite the way it once did.
Caregiving, of course, magnifies these shifts. It asks more of us—physically and emotionally—than we often imagined possible.
But there’s another kind of strength I’ve come to recognize. It’s quieter, less visible, and perhaps even more vital. It’s a strength I needed during my caregiving years but didn’t yet have a name for.
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