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We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

Anne Wade June 21, 2020 Yourself Leave a Comment

“[Creole] wanted Sonny to leave the shoreline and strike out for deep water. He was Sonny’s witness that deep water and drowning are not the …

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The Disappearance of Love

The Disappearance of Love

Anne Wade June 10, 2020 Yourself Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, you were a baby inside a womb. Inside that womb, you were in love with yourself because you did not know …

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How to Take Charge of Your Personal Story

How to Take Charge of Your Personal Story

Anne Wade April 10, 2020 Yourself Leave a Comment

Nike’s tagline of Just Do It has entered our everyday language for a good reason. We can never accomplish anything by only thinking about, by …

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Your Baggage is your Superpower

Your Baggage is the Gateway to Your Superpower

Anne Wade January 7, 2020 Yourself Leave a Comment

The Muses have been full of contrarian perspectives lately, but maybe that’s what muses do – shake up our complacency to reveal things hidden in …

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Perspective

The Magic of New Perspectives

Anne Wade December 19, 2019 Holidays, Traditions, and Rituals, Mindset and Personal Growth Leave a Comment

The magic is all around us, every minute of every day. The trick is in seeing it. 2019 has been a doozy of a year …

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That risk you are afraid to take could change your life

The Risk You Are Afraid to Take

Anne Wade December 13, 2019 Yourself 1 Comment

Fear has been a constant companion for much of my life. It started in childhood with parents caught up in their own struggles. There was …

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Finding the Quiet in the Frenzy of December – A Ritual for Year End

Anne Wade December 12, 2019 Holidays, Traditions, and Rituals Leave a Comment

In the frenzy of December is a place of deep quiet if we are willing to go there. In that quiet, filters and shields can …

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All the Versions of You that Have Not Fit – Embracing Imposter Syndrome

Anne Wade November 26, 2019 Yourself Leave a Comment

There’s a gap between who we want to be and what we want to do. Inside that gap is a thousand versions of ourselves that …

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Self Care and Belonging – Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart

Anne Wade May 16, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

“All too often our so-called strength comes from fear, not love; instead of having a strong back, many of us have a defended front shielding …

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It’s Hard to Hate People Close Up

Anne Wade May 2, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

It’s easy to hate people when we depersonalize them and keep them at arm’s length. But when we get to know them, when their troubles …

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Holding Hands with Strangers

Anne Wade April 26, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

When we are in crisis… when we are feeling utterly lost and tested… when life feels like it’s crashing all around us… we still have …

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SPEAK truth to bullshit. Be civil

Speak Truth to Lies (Be Civil)

Anne Wade April 26, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

According to Carl Jung, paradox is essential for understanding. How would we know hot without cold? How would we know up without down? How would …

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Where are you Hiding?

Where Are You Hiding?

Anne Wade April 20, 2018 Yourself 1 Comment

Is your sense of belonging dependent upon feeling in control? When her husband offered her the trip she had longed for, instead of getting excited, …

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True Belonging

Anne Wade April 19, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

True belonging. Those words conjure up a very specific picture for me as a recovering fitting-in person. Striving to fit in had only created a …

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Are You Showing Up as Your True Self?

Anne Wade April 19, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

Most of my career was spent in a world dominated by men, tough men, primarily engineering types. I’m a smallish woman who danced ballet, played …

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Never Underestimate the Power of Being Seen. _ Brene Brown

Never Underestimate the Power of Being Seen

Anne Wade April 18, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

In Braving the Wilderness, Brené Brown speaks candidly and transparently about using self-destructive behaviors to soothe the lack of belonging she so keenly felt. She …

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Becoming a Memory Guardian

Anne Wade April 16, 2018 Friends, Family, and Pets Leave a Comment

We recently sold our childhood home.  As I stood in front of it for the last time that it was still part of our family, …

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What Does Belonging Mean to You_

What Does “Belonging” Mean to You?

Anne Wade April 16, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

What does “belonging” mean to you? The dictionary defines it as being a member or part of a particular group, organization, or class. As children, …

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Braving the Wilderness – The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Anne Wade April 9, 2018 Yourself Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading Braving the Wilderness – The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, the newest book from social scientist Brené …

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Self-Care, Watchword 2018

My Word of the Year (Watchword) for 2018 is Self-Care. What’s Yours”

Anne Wade January 8, 2018 Holidays, Traditions, and Rituals Leave a Comment

My personal word of the Year (Watchword) for 2018 is Self-Care. But not the chocolate and bubble bath variety that seems to pop up everywhere. …

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