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This is where I write about everything that’s close to my heart: mental health and wellness, self-care, writing, authentic living, connection, art, and more! Below, you can click through the Categories to read pieces about topics of interest to you.

If you like reading, you might enjoy Virtual Book Club and my book, Bloodlines: A Memoir of Harm and Healing.

  • heArt Journaling 101, March class
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    heArt Journaling 101, March class

    New March Class Forming Now! The Short: What: heArt Journaling 101 with Tracey When: Sundays, March 7, 14, 21 @ 10am – 12:30p pacific Where: via zoom Cost: $100 (a 10% saving off normal class prices, *sale…

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    New class alert

    New Class Forming Now! The Short: What: heArt Journaling 101 with Tracey When: Thursdays, February 18, 25, and March 4 @ 10am – 12:30p pacific Where: via zoom Cost: $100 (a 10% saving off normal…

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  • Untamed book club, final
    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club, final

    Happy New Year friends. It’s hard to believe another year is coming to an end, even if we’ll be glad to see it go. I want to thank you for your participation in this book…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    Like Glennon, I have dealt with depression and anxiety for a long time. My anxiety started when I was a young child. It kicked into high gear when I went away to college. It was…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    “We never stop to consider that most of the memos we live by were actually written by highly motivated men.” p. 243 Wow. Glennon is right. I have not really considered the origins of the…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    Welcome back friends. I hope everyone had a peaceful, happy Thanksgiving. This week's post covers the vignettes woods through racists. Melanie Speros will be writing next week's post on questions through conflicts. We're winding down…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving
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    Happy Thanksgiving

    We are taking a break this week from our Untamed book club. We will return next week with our regularly scheduled entry. If you'd like to get caught up on what we've been saying, you…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    Good morning! This is your captain speaking, and on behalf of the crew I’d like to welcome you aboard this Karma Airlines flight. Today we’ll be taking off from New Mommy and flying to our…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    “Your body will tell you things your mind will talk you out of. Your body is telling you what direction life is in. Try trusting it. Turn away from what feels cold. Go toward what…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    Right there on page 93 – Glennon writes that although on the surface, her life was good. She was a do-gooder for others (wife , mom, community, work). Because her ‘training’ and taming told her that…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    By Melanie Speros “'Even if it’s not true enough, maybe it’s good enough.’ But good enough is what makes people drink too much and snark too much and become bitter and sick and live in…

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  • Untamed
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    Untamed

    By Susan Schwartz In this series of vignettes, reading about the woman who stayed in the hot yoga room, no matter how awful she felt, incited two flashbacks. First, I thought of a sleepover birthday…

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  • Here we go. . .
    Untamed | Book Club

    Here we go. . .

    Here we go! I went back to re-read the first post I wrote about Rising Strong and feel that what I wrote then still applies now. Regarding "badassery:" "I am completely in love with the term badassery….

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  • Mental Illness Awareness Week
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    Mental Illness Awareness Week

    In honor of Mental Illness Awareness Week As often as I’ve wished that I could take away my daughter’s pain, I can’t. Living with depression and anxiety will be part of her life forever. Over…

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    Self-Care Sisters – LIVE event alert

    CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND TO REGISTER: LIVE ONLINE EVENT Take some time for yourself… Unlike physical conferences where you may be self-conscious about participating in a group with meditation, yoga, skincare, and creating, the…

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    Untamed | Book Club

    Untamed book club

    Hello Glennon Doyle's Untamed gang!  Let’s get this party started. The basic guidelines and preliminary schedule are detailed below. I will spearhead the first post, which will land in your email inbox on Thursday, October 15….

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