This is a piece I’ve been working on for quite a while. Now that my daughter is four, and her birthday isn’t for another few months, I feel ready to share it. A child’s birthday is full of happy, joyous moments. As parents, we relish in watching our child burst with excitement. We shower them [...]
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Post originally published on TheBody.com ~ Spread Hope: A Therapist’s Guide to Living and Laughing With HIV/AIDS I probably don’t need to tell you that our lives are full of tons of stress. Money, relationships, terror alerts, traffic, unemployment, poverty, the endless circus of GOP candidates, finding out your partner had a child with your [...]
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The ocean has always been a source of peace and power for me. Since I was a little girl I’ve been in love with the ocean, with water. I could spend hours at the beach (and I did; on the Jersey Shore, to be exact) just looking at the waves. To this day I still [...]
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