Category Archives: incompleteness

A healing journey

Posted on July 29, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

This has been the post that’s been on my mind for over a week now. I haven’t found the words to convey my feelings about the healing journey I went on last week, when we went by train to seek … Continue reading →

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Who needs sleep?

Posted on July 10, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I woke up this morning about 3:30 to the sounds of our dog, Tinkerbell, barking.  I stumbled out of bed, sans glasses, let her out of her crate, and opened the back door to let her outside – or tried … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, Attachment Parenting, Depression, incompleteness, Intensity, mindfulness, personal growth, personal issues | 7 Comments

The journey continues.

Posted on July 6, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I’ve been stuck in awareness but no growth, hung suspended in time, grappling with the past and the impact on my present. I have had MANY revelations as to why I’m stuck. Stumbling on the concept that I probably have … Continue reading →

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Permission to be

Posted on June 25, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I had a pretty severely depressed day yesterday.  To the point that the will to live was feeble and the desire to die was stronger than it’s been in recent years. Yes, despite all that I have to live for … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, Attachment Parenting, career, Depression, highly sensitive mom, incompleteness, loss of parental love, my stories, personal issues, perspective, trauma | 4 Comments

There’s that faith thing again

Posted on April 9, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

Just when I think that I can not resolve some of my lack of deep conviction in the existence of God, because I’m too rational, too analytical, too scientific, a friend of mine tells me he was reading Miguel de … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, incompleteness, intellectual stuff, introspection, personal growth, poetry, synchronicity, Writing | 10 Comments

As if he were talking to me

Posted on March 30, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

As I read it now, in the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than when I was in Paris, where everything echoes and fades away differently because of the excessive … Continue reading →

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Making peace with what is.

Posted on March 26, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

In grief, there is an element of inconsolability.  In our needs there is an element of unsatisfiability.  In the face of life’s most profound questions, there is an unknowability.  This fits in with the work of Kurt Godel, the Czech … Continue reading →

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