Author: Lorna Tedder
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What It Is Wednesday: Who Ya Gonna Call?
I have a gift. Apparently. Here’s how it almost always plays out, whether you are an intern, an acquaintance, a co-worker, a leader in my organization, a best friend, a neighbor, a man I’d really like to spend more time with. The pattern is the same. You can barely breathe. In fact, you’re not sure…
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Before You Get Too Old, Make Things Right
There’s nothing sadder—or more karmic—than the husk of a once vital, strong, aggressive, even abrasive individual who has waited too late to make things right and has to both live and die with that regret. I’ve seen enough of it to know to try to do my best by people so that I won’t have…
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What It Is Wednesday: Cutting in Line
“What’s wrong with people,” I wondered as I was trying on shoes in a store over in Destin, “that they get so dug into their positions and can’t seem to see what’s obvious to everyone else?” I was thinking this in terms of politics, both on the national scale and in my own workplace. It…
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Empath: The Best Personality Type to Marry
Question: What is the best personality to marry if you are an empath? Someone who is emotionally healthy. That is, of course, the ideal answer for everyone, empath or not, but as an empath, you do have special needs and the last thing you want is to … This post has been incorporated into my…
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What It Is Wednesday: Givers and Takers
It’s my nature to be a Giver. I can’t change that. I’ve tried–short spats of disillusioned refusal to give one more inch, in an effort to draw boundaries and protect myself from giving too much. I’m a recovering co-dependent, and that’s the best I can hope for: to find positive ways to channel that early…
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Applied Astrology: Leo Moons and Narcissistic Behaviors
As a blogger on the subjects of astrology and empaths, I find that the question I’m asked more than any other is about zodiac signs and narcissists, which I believe to be the polar opposite of an empath and certainly the bane of many empaths I know, including myself. The most consistent and amusing question…
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What It Is Wednesday: The Truth Will Set You Free
FB Memories are often a good memory jogger for me. The photo below was 6 weeks into my first “100happydays” experiment of looking for those joyous little moments in life. Though I’m not almost a year into my second “100happydays” experiment–I didn’t want to quit because of the great value in it for me–I abandoned…
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Meditation: Fox Hole vs Rabbit Hole
Usually, when I write about meditations, they’re my own. In this case, the meditation was someone else’s, but it was specifically about me. A friend shared this meditation with me and then called to let me know that something that was once important to me would be coming back into my life. When she first…
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What It Is Wednesday: No Light at the End of the Tunnel
We like to assure the downtrodden, the sick, and the grieving that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But wait…are we so sure? I’ve known (and have written about) the long, dark tunnel I’ve been going through for almost a year and a half now. It’s related to overcoming some particular…
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Why the Bullying Pattern in My Life Re-Surfaced
Why? I kept asking. Why, why, why? Though in the beginning, the question wasn’t Why? but Who? I was trusting the wrong person, taking his word for everything because of his position, and because I really–really–did want to like him. Instead, I was repeating a pattern I’ve seen a number of times in my…