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My First Step Out of Rock Bottom to Start My Walk on the Moon
This post inspired by the WordPress Daily Prompt: Walking on the Moon. What giant step did you take where you hoped your leg wouldn’t break? Was it worth it, were you successful in walking on the moon,...
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My Full Circle of the Personal Analysis Bureau
This post inspired by the WordPress Weekly Writing Challenge: Object. Look around your writing space. Pick object(s) you see (or hear or smell or feel) and reveal them to your reader. How do they...
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Worth Every Raindrop and Thunder Strike
It has been a week of witnessing the dichotomy between the sheer terror and the joyful hope of change. A week of asking clients to trust that if they feel the fear and choose change anyway there is...
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My Dementor: Shame and Self Doubt
Today I gave a presentation for a Lunch and Learn at a major corporation here in Saint Louis. This is my sixth Lunch and Learn with them. I always have good attendance, great feedback and they actually...
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Chosen Children
A picture mail text of Lyla’s drawing of us. Snail mail of Joycelyn’s drawing of the dogs. A picture mail text of Lane with his “Justine socks” on. A voice mail from the boys begging us to come play...
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The Myriagon of Ever Upward Light
A myriagon is a polygon with 10,000 sides. A shape that can look much like a circle with as many sides as Ever Upward has now been viewed all over the world in 43 different countries. The circle that...
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Courageously Contagious
The overarching theme of Brené Brown‘s research and work is shame, vulnerability and courage. And it has completely helped me to change my entire life. The courage she displayed in her first TEDx...
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Our Light Can’t Shine in the Darkness of Perfectionism
The planting season. For the last 6 months I have been working nonstop to get Ever Upward noticed, read, reviewed, Tweeted, Facebooked and loved. I have also been trying to maintain my sanity, marriage...
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Being the Happiest and Healthiest Version of Ourselves: Can We Just Do It?
It has been a theme in my office lately, the frustration we can feel with recovery, well, really with ourselves. The frustration of falling off track with the choices of recovery. The sense of it never...
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Getting Out of Our Own Way: What We Look For We Will See
Shift your perspective. Believe in miracles. The universe is working completely in your favor. God’s timing is perfect. Be the change. We’ve all heard something to the effect of all the above...
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The Post-It Miracle
My first book signing was back in April when Ever Upward launched. My first book signing was nothing about selling books, as I wrote had I to choose to shift my definition of success. My second book...
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I Get It, My Story Makes You Really Uncomfortable
HuffPost Parents ran an original piece yesterday and I wanted to make sure everyone here saw it too. Also, a piece from a friend! Have a great weekend! Justine ~~~ When Your Truth Makes Others...
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Penned Musings: My Shifting Shadow
My trip to Montana for the Haven Writing Retreat with New York Times bestselling author Laura Munson was the best money I have ever spent, the best moment I have ever listened to that voice telling me...
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Penned Musing: Flight of Feathers
She looks around and sees the speckles of blood littering the sidewalk with bright red splashes, almost as if firecrackers bright in the night sky. The white feathers float all around. The mother in...
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Petite Post: More Than Choosing It
Looking at me with the spark in her eyes that I have missed so much, she leans forward and says, I think I have finally realized that I have to surrender and obey. She’s right. *** Every day we choose...
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