by Kathy on September 10, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Blogging, Communication, Coping, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, Suicide Prevention, Writing
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fourteenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been well over a year since we last did some Gatekeeping here. In recent years I’ve been surprised by how much […]
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by Kathy on August 30, 2018 · 0 comments
in Abby, Anxiety, Babies Benson, Background, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Coping, Gratitude, Infertility, Journey, Life, Listening, Loss, Memories, Miscarriage, Music, Pregnancy, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Secondary Infertility, Signs, Time, Transitions
I remember how he used to tease me for bringing my binder, with colored coded spreadsheets, to track our relatively routine pregnancy with Sean in 2003. And then he was the doctor on call during our scheduled induction, which ended up being an augmentation, when I went into natural labor earlier that day (10 days […]
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by Kathy on August 1, 2018 · 0 comments
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“Elephants never forget…” That’s what his dad said, after giving me a cute stuffed animal elephant (not the one pictured here), that he and his wife/my old friend’s mom found for me while boot (a.k.a. garage/rummage) sale shopping the previous weekend. I’d told them when we first met about how I’d been collecting elephants, mostly […]
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by Kathy on July 30, 2018 · 0 comments
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I returned to therapy, after a few years off, in 2011. I was struggling with some difficult relationships in my life, as well as trying to make peace with the deaths of two loved ones, while also weighing the pros and cons of a big decision for our family. Those were the objectives I laid […]
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by Kathy on September 13, 2017 · 0 comments
in Accountability, Anticipation, Books, Change, Coping, Courage, Decisions, Disappointment, Expectations, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Journey, Life, Loss, Memories, Mindfullness, Mistakes, Pain, Quotes, Reality, Relationships, Resolution, Social Media, The Future, The Past, Therapy, Time
This week I have immersed myself in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book What Happened, about her experience with the 2016 Presidential Primary and Election, including why she didn’t win the electoral college and lots of inside scoop on what it was like behind the scenes of her campaign. I’ve struggled with what happened every day […]
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by Kathy on September 11, 2017 · 0 comments
in 9/11, Bereavement, Change, Coping, Grief, Healing, Hope, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Reality, The Past, Time
16 years later, I remember. I remember where I was, what I was doing, and how I heard the news. I will never forget that day, the lives that were lost, and how our world changed. In April, Sean and I visited the Pentagon Memorial with his 7th grade class on their trip to […]
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