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The joys, sorrows, stops and starts, pains, revelations, ups and downs of birth are not just for women and mothers. We are all of us called to passages of conception, nurturance, labor, and birth by the consistent pulse, the cyclical rhythms of life.
It seems that my last article – Learn To Empty Out Before Things Explode – brought up a specific question for many of you that’s worthy of more discussion: How do I know when my strong reaction stems from my plate being a little too full and when it stems from a situation that truly
It’s happened to all of us: We wake up one day, go innocently about our business, and then someone says something (seemingly) innocuous to us or we have to wait a little too long for the cable guy and WHAM!, we spiral instantaneously into uncontrollable overreaction.
There are days when I feel like I’m absolutely crazy. One minute, I’ll be laughing heartily, filled with tremendous joy … the next, shaky and unsure of the source of a seemingly endless well of tears. In the past, I would make myself wrong for one or the other, tell myself to get it together
