Tag: hope
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Navigating Life’s Challenges: My Journey with Writing
Today I’d like to write a bit of an update and to reassure everyone that I’m not gone. Diary of a Flopping Fish is still moving along, thought it is going quite slowly. As I have written about before, it if very hard to balance other obligations and expectations while still have enough left in…
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Life is Messy
Many of us have had to get all the naysayers out of our lives only to find out that they made such an imprint on us that now they live in our heads and how do we kick ourselves out of our lives? Well, we don’t. We change. We shrink the voice in our head…
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Reviewing a year of failures and few accomplishments
Getting Old Is Easy The closer I get to forty, the more I start to reflect on my life. As much as I want to be proud of how much I have overcome, I still can’t shake the feeling that I have been robbed. It may be more apt to say that I go back…
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The Embers Of Hope
Have I indeed already lost hope? Perhaps it left in the middle of the night without my knowledge like a disheartened lover. It was once so bright; burning like an ember that illuminates the promise of a new fire.
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PTSD and Interpersonal Relationships – A Survivors Perspective
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not an easy disorder to deal with for the person that suffers from it or the people that are around them. This does not mean to lose heart because there are many different paths to healing available, however, the road is not paved.
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Be A Butterfly
Rather than assembling the pieces of yourself back into the old mold, find a new mold that you like and focus on what is needed to make that mold a reality.
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The Embers of Hope
I remember working a standard cashier job while I was in my late twenties and a vision of my future came to me between the scanner beeps and impatient sighs of customers. If I stayed on the path I was on I would become disheartened and hollow; just a husk of a person whose dreams…
Diary of a Flopping Fish 