Tag: mental-health
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Embracing the Slow: A Lesson from Natural Peanut Butter

~a pondering~ If you’ve ever opened a jar of natural peanut butter, you’ll see about an inch of peanut oil sitting on top of the creamy goodness. The daunting task of mixing that delicious slop kept me from enjoying the natural alternative for many years. But as my consumption ways have continued to grow more…
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Book Release: Beauty of the Slow Drip

It’s been about a year and I realized I never made an announcement about the release of my most recent book, a collection of poetry and prose – Beauty of the Slow Drip: a journey of loss, grief, and healing. This was probably due in part because the day after it went to print another…
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That’s Alright

it’ll be uglyit’ll be messy and that’s alright for darkness is most heavyjust before light pierces dayand when light’s powerful forcedoes penetrate the conscious mind the hidden recesses can hide no morein the light of truth, illumination prevails hell is overcome; all has been vanquished look toward the lighttrust the sun shines bright a new day has begun -akw-…