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Posted in Meaningful Relationships, Protecting our Power on May 16th, 2008
The pain is so strong, but always buried deep. It’s not like being cut with a knife. It’s like feeling my soul and spirit slowly being fed into a meat grinder. I feel trapped, but escape is not an option. Love makes me stay despite the pain. My mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and her short-term […]
Posted in Change & Growth, Meaningful Relationships, Protecting our Power on Apr 2nd, 2008
I don’t usually cry. As a third degree black belt, EMT, and former volunteer firefighter, I can take a lot. As a woman whose family loves to hide their emotions, it is hard for me to even show the deeper ones. But this has been a week that would try the patience of Mother Theresa, […]
Posted in Meaningful Relationships on Feb 24th, 2008
It’s just a coffee maker. It’s not a complicated piece of technology. And yet for my mother, some days it might as well be a Rubik’s cube. Early stages of Alzheimer’s or senility make it so. I could make the coffee for her, and for me on the rare days I drink it, but the […]