Trauma & Resilience

Can We Be Both Risk-Takers & Settlers? Part 2
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Can We Be Both Risk-Takers & Settlers? Part 2

*This post was published late because, for those of you who haven’t made a cross-country move, everything takes the back burner when you’re living out of boxes and suitcases. The cat’s out of the bag. We’re moving to Detroit (er-the Detroit Metro Area)! After much consideration, we decided to sell our home and many of…

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Can We Be Both Risk-Takers & Settlers? Part 1

Ask any woman and she’ll agree: clarifying what we want out of life, going after it and successfully achieving it is a dream come true. This is the stuff New Year’s resolutions are made of. There is a massive industry of classes, planners and coaching dedicated to helping women do just this. After my divorce,…

Why My Husband is Lucky to have Someone Else’s Leftovers
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Why My Husband is Lucky to have Someone Else’s Leftovers

Surviving-the-whirlwind faces My husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary in May. Though this inaugural year of marriage was filled with events that would test any relationship (bought a house, moved, had a baby, survived the newborn phase), neither one of us regrets saying, “I do.” (Yay!) For a trip down memory lane, read…