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Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS by Portia Nelson I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in. I am lost … I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes me forever …...
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August
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer...
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell …...
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Blessing the Boats
may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open …...
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Homage to my Hips
these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved, they...
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Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The …...
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Find something to celebrate today
[image credit] Recovery gives you the chance to EMBRACE LIFE again - to see the BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING to pour yourself unashamedly into everything you do - not because you think you have to succeed or...
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Kindness Starts With Yourself
[image credit] Take a moment to read the following poem and perhaps pull out your journal and reflect on what thoughts, images, & emotions it brings to mind. I’ve inserted the word “recovery” in...
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If I had my life to live over
I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been on this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb...
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How Pregnancy Changes Your Body Image
Kate, from Eat the Damn Cake, has done it again – a beautiful article giving us reason to celebrate our bodies, no matter what shape, size, colour, ability… Thanks, Kate for being such an inspiring...
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