Emotional Support

It’s All Right to Cry

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Yellow flowers in a vase

But what about those lesser occasions? What if we’ve had a really frustrating day when it seemed like nothing was going right. Perhaps we suffer from chronic pain and are having flare-ups that nothing will touch. Or maybe we’ve bonked our head on a cabinet door, stepped on a stray Lego brick with bare feet, or stubbed a toe. Any of these can cause tears to well up, and do you know what? It is all right to cry; in fact, as the song goes, it might make you feel better.

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The Veils We Wear

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The Veils We Wear

Driving down a quiet road out of town, I noticed a sign for a local senior agency. It was an ordinary moment, yet something about it stayed with me. The photo on the sign featured a woman, her face lined with sadness. Her eyes told a story that words couldn’t capture, and it made me pause. I began to wonder: how many people carry sadness or struggles behind veils of normalcy?

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Self Care and Natural Disasters

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Here in Florida, hurricane season begins on the first of June and runs to the end of November, but it’s the late-fall storms that are always the worst for the west (gulf) coast of the state. We’ve had two major hurricanes in two weeks, and while I’m very fortunate that my house did not flood during Helene or tear apart during Milton, the neighborhoods all around me experienced serious damage. So how do you cope – how do I cope – during and after a serious weather event?

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