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Our Daughters and Gaining Independence
Curfew, grades, freedoms, personal space, tracking devices and a smattering of unreal expectations are a few of the things that your teenaged daughters are struggling with as they push to gain more...
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Recovery
May 1992 – Inpatient hospital recovery plan Dear support people – This is a letter to inform you of the work I have done and the help I may need. I have been in the hospital for depression and to work...
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Robin’s Pain: The Mystery of Suicide—and How to Prevent It
Originally posted on TIME:The great paradox of the human brain is that it can’t feel pain. The organ that is the seat of all joy and worry and love and sorrow and whimsy and fear is itself insensible...
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That I Would Be Good
With so many ways to label and judge ourselves harshly it is hard to delineate who we really are. Am I my job? Am I my parents? Am I my faith? Am I what society tells me I should be? Am I my mistakes?...
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Shifting attitudes at play in Cosby allegations
Jocelyn Noveck interviewed me this week, national writer for the Associated Press for her article entitled, Shifting attitudes at play in Cosby allegations dated November 22, 2014. I am a member of...
View ArticleEps 002: Money and Budgeting: We’ve been doing it all wrong
Money and Budgeting: We’ve been doing it all wrong Daily latte. Impulse purchase at the clothing store. Last minute meal out. Grocery shopping on an empty stomach. Mindlessly swiping your debit card...
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Eps 003: Creature Comfort
Have you ever thought about how when you are comfortable you are more confident? Comfort is a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint. It is also the easing or alleviation of a...
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Permission Slips: You have permission to be uncool By Tamra Wade
Permission Slips: You have permission to be uncool By Tamra Wade When I was a young woman I often found myself in situations where I forced myself to ‘be cool’. I went to a school with a wide boundary....
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Everybody Else’s Girl By Tamra Wade It’s very hard to know who you are when so many others want to tell you who you should be. As women, we often exist in a strange tug of war between what others...
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Eps 004: Shopping Hacks
One and done! How do you shop responsibly? How do you keep more money in your pocket? Rio and I have compiled some information centered around concepts we learned in the documentary True Cost. We are...
View ArticleEmotion Cohabitation by Tamra Wade
Emotion Cohabitation By Tamra Wade Have you ever thought about how your emotions, thoughts, and feelings all cohabitate? They do. We are always experiencing a multitude of emotions, thoughts and...
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Core Values By Tamra Wade This week Paper Hope held a very special event geared towards helping us discover our core values. Core values are super important yet so many of us have never put them down...
View ArticleDoes Your Face Light Up? By Tamra Wade
Does Your Face Light Up? By Tamra Wade “The common denominator in the human experience is that everybody wants just to be appreciated or validated.”~ Oprah At every turn, things didn’t go the way I...
View ArticleYour Three Feet of Influence By Tamra Wade
Your Three Feet of Influence By Tamra Wade I recently read an article, Your Three Feet of Influence by Shannon Salberg for On Being. She tells a story of a man making his way through the New York City...
View ArticleWhen Kindness is Too Much to Give, Be Nice By Tamra Wade
When Kindness is Too Much to Give, Be Nice By Tamra Wade (Rated PG for mild language) Why do smaller actions like being nice get such a bad wrap? Some parts of society push the belief if you are nice...
View ArticleThrottling by Tamra Wade
Throttling By Tamra Wade Rated PG for language Have you ever thought about why we all have this idea we should have our shit together? Where did this concept come from? The thought we should be well...
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No New Clothes for a Year By JoAnne McGrath
No New Clothes for a Year By JoAnne McGrath Forward by Tamra Wade One of my life long friend, JoAnne, shared recently about the outcome of her 2017 New Year’s resolution to not purchase any new...
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