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This Week’s Most Viewed Story (March 27, 2023) — Currently holding a 30-day writing challenge to rebuild my writing habits, engage with others, and reach my most recent goal of 300 articles. This week’s most viewed story: Underhanded Life Lessons You Learn at Rock Bottom My newest stories for this week: Journaling Is The Emotional Detox You Need To…

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My Most Viewed Medium Stories — (Updated Weekly)
My Most Viewed Medium Stories — (Updated Weekly)
Writing

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Jun 7

The Power of Personal Essays

How to tell your own and why we desperately need them — I get this craving so deep it makes my blue-green bones ache. My mouth waters, and my ears ring a little. I feel like a child sneaking a nibble of something she knows is off-limits. I don’t give in to this craving, except at gas station checkouts on random days…

Creative Writing

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The Power of Personal Essays
The Power of Personal Essays
Creative Writing

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Jun 6

14 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Since I Started Writing

That has nothing to do with money — When I launched my first blog, I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t know anything about sourcing images, SEO, digital marketing, or email lists. I didn’t know about Wix, WordPress, or Bluehost. I did know was my heart was broken after a rare pregnancy complication that cost…

Writing

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14 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Since I Started Writing
14 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Since I Started Writing
Writing

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May 23

On Being A Late Diagnosed ADHDer

Life as a girl in the 90s, bad coping mechanisms, and learning to live with an unorganized brain — My mom wrapped a long blue cord out the sliding glass and around the back porch, careful not to pinch it too much when she closed the door. She’s referred to it as “smokin’ like a house on fire,” only with less ‘ire’ and more ‘urr’ at the end. It…

This Happened To Me

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On Being A Late Diagnosed ADHDer
On Being A Late Diagnosed ADHDer
This Happened To Me

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May 17

Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff & Other Things I’m Still Learning

On overcoming imposter syndrome — Photo by Andy Calhoun on Unsplash Last weekend I finally watched Elvis. Even though I am a millennial, his music had a huge impact on my life. I’m rarely sad that I moved away from my hometown, but the movie made me homesick because of my grandparents. It was the…

Writing

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Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff & Other Things I’m Still Learning
Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff & Other Things I’m Still Learning
Writing

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Practice in Public

·Apr 4

3 Reasons Why Journaling Can Supercharge Your Day

Start building your journaling practice now — Journaling isn’t about writing in a cute, heart-shaped lock diary. It’s a psychological technique that changes your mindset, teaches self-confidence, improves productivity, boosts relationships, and increases emotional maturity. Sounds like a too-good-to-be-true trick, I know. It isn’t, but here’s where it gets tricky. Journaling will repeat your inner dialogue. If…

Self Improvement

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3 Reasons Why Journaling Can Supercharge Your Day
3 Reasons Why Journaling Can Supercharge Your Day
Self Improvement

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Mar 30

Journaling Is The Emotional Detox You Need To Improve Your Mental Health

No matter what you’re struggling with, journaling can help — But first, let go of the lies you believe about journaling. Dear Diary, Today I ate two chocolate muffins and walked around the neighborhood. Johnny says he might come over and watch a movie this weekend. I used to think of journaling like this. What on Earth would I write in there every freaking day? If that’s the image you have…

Self

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Journaling Is The Emotional Detox You Need To Improve Your Mental Health
Journaling Is The Emotional Detox You Need To Improve Your Mental Health
Self

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·Mar 29

Everyone Knew When Fear Ran Through My Veins

How fear controlled my life & what I’m doing about it — I was raised to fail. I grew up in the middle of the woods, where the scenery is beautiful, life is quiet, and religion is loud. There’s one stop sign in the “city”; three stoplights the next town over. The county was dry until a few years ago. And the…

Inspiration

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Everyone Knew When Fear Ran Through My Veins
Everyone Knew When Fear Ran Through My Veins
Inspiration

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Mar 28

Top Regrets of Dying People That Made Me Stop Second Guessing Everything

And Start Actually Living — You’re approved! I was stuck staring at my phone in the toothpaste aisle of an under-renovations Target. I didn’t expect approval or sincere enthusiasm, but here I was, sharing that weird moment with rows of Colgate. I grew up with strict Evangelicalism, where my place as a woman was at…

Self

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Top Regrets of Dying People That Made Me Stop Second Guessing Everything
Top Regrets of Dying People That Made Me Stop Second Guessing Everything
Self

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Mar 27

3 Secret Techniques That Will Teach You Self-Love

The no BS techniques that pulled me from rock bottom — Is narcissism to blame for why we hate ourselves so much? That’s the claim Christopher Lasch made in his 1978 book, The Culture of Narcissism, where he details the decline of American confidence. He’s not the last to sound the alarm. Dick Meyer released Why We Hate Us: American Discontent…

Self

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3 Secret Techniques That Will Teach You Self-Love
3 Secret Techniques That Will Teach You Self-Love
Self

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