As some health professionals want you to know, it’s the little moments that make life big.
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As you look at my other images for today, do you agree with that philosophy about the little moments?
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Considering the little moments we’ll be experiencing over the next four years, that advice from the Daily Bitch is tempting.
Here’s what I find when I search for “the little moments” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all who share the little moments with me, including YOU.
In this place and time, “Place and Time” seems like the right title for today’s blog.
Let’s start with a definition of a certain type of place.
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I hope this blog is a phrontistery. I also hope it’s a place for feeling, but I don’t know if there’s a word for such a place.
Now let’s turn to time.
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I wasn’t sure where to place these other images, but there is no time like the present.
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I don’t believe that most people are narcissists; I do believe that too many of them have access to power during this place and time.
Here’s what I find when I search for “place and time” on YouTube.
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And while I originally placed the following image in a past blog, I think this is a good time to repeat it, as I head in to my work as a therapist.
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Here and now is a good place and time to express my gratitude to YOU!
Yesterday, as I was going on my way to work where people talk about how to just keep going no matter what, I saw this:
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Let’s just keep going through my other images from yesterday.
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Sometimes, Michael’s delicious food helps me just keep going. Also blogging, songwriting, people I love, and Joan.
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Here’s what I find when I search for “just keep going” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all who help me just keep going, including YOU!
Because I spent so much time in the hospital when I was a kid during the unenlightened times when parents were not allowed to stay with their children, I have some abandonment issues.
When terrible people take too much control of our lives and there seems to be no rescue in sight, many of us have abandonment issues.
I don’t want to abandon anybody who wants to know more about abandonment issues, so here’s an AI summary:
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Because so many people are abandoning Twitter/X (with good reason!), I posted there yesterday about abandonment issues.
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I deal with my abandonment issues by connecting with kind people, letting go of anxiety, reminding myself that I AM valued by others, creating and appreciating art, adopting abandoned cats, living my best life, and helping others with their abandonment issues through my work as a group therapist.
Do you see abandonment issues in my other images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “abandonment issues” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who help me deal with any abandonment issues, including YOU.
In my Coping and Healing groups, members sometimes express gratitude for safe spaces where they have room to express themselves authentically and to realize they are not alone.
I think we are all looking for safe spaces. Do you see safe spaces in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “safe spaces” on YouTube.
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Later today, my husband Michael (who helps create safe spaces for me) will be going to a new space that’s safe for cats and humans — A Sanctuary Cafe in Boston.
I hope the comments section, below, is a safe place for you to express thoughts and feelings about this Safe Spaces post.
Thanks to all who help create safe spaces for others, including YOU.
Many people I know are considering where to go next after last week’s elections in the USA.
Should we go to a different place, externally and/or internally? Should we stay or should we go?
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Where to go next? Should we go to different social media sites and/or even different countries?
Where to go next? Should we go to acceptance and/or activism? Isolation and/or engagement? Our happy place and/or our complicated place? Blue skies or gray skies? Bluesky or Twitter/X? Inner peace and/or inner conflict?
Where to go next, here and now, are my images for today.
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Where to go next, for me, includes the funeral service for a long time group member and then an online Coping and Healing group.
Thanks to all who help me figure out where to go next, including YOU.
In the news, I’m seeing conflict, conflict everywhere and not much conflict resolution.
Do you see conflict resolution in my images for today?
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Is the Daily Bitch conflicted about getting old? My resolution about that conflict is to embrace every day and to let go of fear as we grow older together.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for conflict resolution.
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In that Ted Talk, Karleen Savage shares many practical, simple, and helpful ideas about conflict resolution.
Thanks to all who strive for conflict resolution, including YOU.
