Tag: transformation
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When Foundational Beliefs Are Rocked
What happens when the beliefs you’ve built your life on suddenly crack? A look at what comes after the shaking stops.
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The Story You Didn’t Realize You’ve Been Living Inside
You’ve been living inside a story all along — you just haven’t noticed. Here’s how to read the narrative of your own life.
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Gecko Totem: Renewal, Resilience, and the Gift of Adaptation
The geckos that flourish around my century-old house feel like more than neighbors. They’re survivors who’ve mastered the art of renewal—shedding what no longer fits, regrowing what was lost, and clinging even when the world shifts beneath them. The gecko totem has a lot to teach.
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The Grief We Grow Old Enough to Understand
I didn’t understand the old woman’s words of wisdom then. They were something it took 50 years to grow into.
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Ouch: Why My Romantic Partners Often Run Like Hell and What I Can’t Do about It
Occasionally in my personal archeology, I unearth some new bit of information that leaves me reeling for days. This is one of those times. I wasn’t even looking for this information, not consciously at least. I was waiting for a coffee date to leave work and call me and I accidentally stumbled across some relationship…
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Meditations: What’s in My Attic?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. Over the past couple of years, I’ve noted that my meditations include “metaphysical houses,” which are representative “structures” of the inner workings of a person, community, partnership, or situation. I didn’t set out to visit such places but rather, I just landed there and…
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A Crystal Clear Connection
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. After a short but enjoyable talk with my Gemini distraction and a dessert of yummy blueberry muffins Shannon baked, the general sense of antsiness I’ve had since the eclipse last weekend seemed a little mellower. But only a little and not for long.…
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A Woman of Action
I’ve discovered something new about myself. I’m a woman of action. Some people will think it’s funny that I’ve “discovered” this, but I suppose it goes back to my long-held beliefs about what I see as worthy and to be aspired to. It is, as usual, through observing other people that I am able to…
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The Energy We’re Attracted To
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I love talking to people who are seriously into astrology and its patterns. It’s the best personality test out there and a super way of examining one’s own patterns. For example, today an astrology buff mentioned to me that any planets on or…
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Confession Time
I have something to confess that I’ve never said before, at least not in this way. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip to find happiness on your own terms. Available direct from the author → There is a woman I’ve been afraid of for a…
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Transition
Lance, one of the captains I work with who’s just returned from months in the desert, dropped by my office to say hello and Happy Thanksgiving, and we ended up in a riotous conversation about his feelings about his wife, his kids, and childbirth. We both relived a few moments of our children’s entrance into …
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Resurrecting Aphrodite
Sometimes a-ha moments just bubble up out of the subconscious mind at the strangest moments. Like between the strawberries and the sweet potatoes. I can’t sleep and there’s no food in the house because I spent the day working and the evening…doing other stuff that wasn’t worth doing. From the Bookshelf A Reverence for Trees…
