Surviving the Holidays & Festive Thoughts
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Songs to Get You Through the Holidays
We all know how fun it is to face the inquisition from nosy/ well meaning relatives. Whether they are asking about our dating life, work life, or something else we’d rather not discuss, here are some songs that you can burst forth with to throw them off their rhythm so the interrogation stops Are you…
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To Plan A Party
Am I the only one who likes to host parties? It would seem to be incongruent with who I am and how I move through the world, but don’t be mistaken, I like to throw a nice party. Don’t get me wrong, once the guest count rises over five or six, I’m overstimulated, but intimate…
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Happy New Year!
I’ve been confronting a lot of uncomfortable emotions lately. I classify painful or unpleasant emotions as sadness, anger, disappointment, or anything else that accompanies a sad or disheartening experience. When I stopped relying on food to dull my feelings, I realized how much I’d been burying. Now that I feel these emotions, I’m trying different…
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Practicing Empathy
I don’t normally venture into controversial topics and I do not like talking about politics even with people that I agree with. There is a war regarding the holidays I was unaware of how strongly people felt about it until recently. The war I’m referring to is over whether to say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy…
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Christmas Party
I attended my work Christmas party this past week. I haven’t been to a large number of holiday parties in my life and I wasn’t sure what to expect. The best parties I’d experienced up until this year were when I worked at Publix. The store manager would barbecue and we would have baking competitions.…
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Power of Patience
Life often looks different than we expect. I certainly didn’t expect to be such a late bloomer. I thought I’d be married by the age of twenty-five. I thought I’d stick with the career I wanted in the eighth grade. I had all these plans. I thought I knew what I wanted and needed when…
Living on the Spectrum 