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Is Something Weighing You Down?
Recognizing when it’s time to let go can be challenging, but there are several signs that can help guide your decision. One key indicator is if the situation or relationship consistently brings you more stress than joy. You might also notice patterns of recurring negativity or if you find yourself ruminating on the same thoughts…
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Don’t Let Negativity Stop Your Progress
That’s a powerful mindset! Negative words, whether they come from others or even from within ourselves, can be discouraging and can hinder our progress. It’s essential to build resilience against negativity. One strategy is to remind yourself of your strengths and achievements. Surrounding yourself with supportive people who uplift you can also make a significant…
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Holding Anger Hurts You Not Them
That’s very true. Holding on to anger can create emotional and physical stress, which may affect your overall well-being. It often keeps you tied to negative experiences, preventing you from moving forward and finding peace. Letting go of anger, while challenging, can be liberating and lead to healing. It allows you to focus on more…
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Get Back to Happy
Getting back to happy is definitely possible! Here are a few strategies that might help lift your spirits: Finding your way back to happiness is a journey, and it’s perfectly okay to take it one step at a time. What usually brings you joy? Copyright 2024 Crystal Amon
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Maintain Healthy Boundaries
Maintaining healthy boundaries is essential for protecting your emotional and mental well-being. Here are some strategies that can help: Have you found any methods that work particularly well for you in maintaining your boundaries? Copyright 2024 Crystal Amon
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Be Careful What You Tolerate
That’s an intriguing point! The idea of being careful about what we tolerate speaks to the boundaries we set in our lives and relationships. Tolerance can be a positive force for understanding and acceptance, but it’s also important to recognize when tolerance might lead to enabling negative behaviors or situations that conflict with our values.…
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Need Real Homemade Gifts?
Do you need homemade gifts to give someone for their birthday or anniversary? If so, this small blog post is for you. I have a close friend who creates different types of homemade gifts. She has created an online closet or store at the website named, “Poshmark”, which is connected to my blog. This popular…
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Meet Scarlett Rose
Let me introduce you to Scarlett Rose, which is my very first Green Cheek Conure. She is green with a red tail. She was DNA tested by the breeder just before I bought her. Initially, I hand fed her baby bird formula from a small syringe. Scarlett loves to eat her birdseed, millet spray, treats,…
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Crystal’s Pet Sitting Information
Hi, my name is Crystal Amon and I have over twenty years of experience in pet sitting and other pet services. I will walk, brush, bathe, play with, and love your small furbaby. Your beloved furbaby will be allowed on my furniture. They will be part of our family, while they are here with me.…
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Build A Life That You Love
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Changing your life can be extremely difficult with the many different temptations around you. Most of the time, you are far away from the temptation, but sometimes it can be right in your face. This temptation can actually be in the form of a person, who just happened to dropped by…
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Celebrate Your Sobriety
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Becoming sober is a difficult thing for a person who is living with and feeding their addition. Some people count the days and months that they have been in recovery. Be proud of making it to recovery, because many actually don’t make it to getting sober. You should celebrate you recovery…
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Changing Your Inner Circle
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Are you living with an addictive personality, but you are sober right now? If so, then you need to change some keys things in your life right now! Separate yourself from everyone that will help feed your addiction, as well as anyone who chooses to use drugs themselves. Chase your sobriety…
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Escaping Depression’s Brutal Snare
By, Crystal S. Kauffman It is normal to feel down or sad at times, because we are human and we are filled with a range of different emotions. Some common emotions we feel are love, anger, happiness , sadness, loneliness, hopeless, fear, shame, pride, and jealousy. However, actual depression is completely different, since it doesn’t…
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Change is Hard, But it is Necessary!
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Many times in your life, you will need to evaluate the people who are in your life and their actual value to your life. You will need to ask yourself some important questions about their true character, before you hang out with them for even a moment.Remember, cut ties with any…
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It’s Not the Situation, But How You React That Matters
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Many times people will take you wrong whether over texting or even face to face, because of how they perceive what you are saying. Unfortunately, you can’t change the way someone reacts to your communications or actions. You can control how you react to anything that they say to you or…
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When Life Rains on You, Find the Rainbow
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Sometimes, life can seem like it does nothing but rain on you, whether it is your finances or your health. It will seem like a damn hurricane is brewing and your holding on for dear life. However, look past the blinding rain and you will see a beautiful rainbow forming in…
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Spread Positive Seeds
By, Crystal S. Kauffman-Amon Sometimes, when I meet a person for the first time, I literally will have to get away from this person as fast as I can. I can just feel their negative energy pouring off of them before they even say a word to me. Immediately, these negative people will have this…
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The Final Choice Is Yours
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Are you struggling with thoughts of using drugs, while you are in recovery? Do you really believe that you can do it one and lay it down again? Did you know can be clean for several years and still struggle with thoughts of using the drug of your choice? Honestly, as a recovering addict you cannot just walk away after using…
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Know Your Worth
By, Crystal S. Kauffman Watch how you allow people in your life to treat you, because you are teaching them the ways you accept being treated. If a person uses harsh words with you and you allow it, then they will continue to speak to you in this manner. You show people exactly what is…
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Review of The Face on the Milk Carton-By, Caroline B. Cooney
The Face on the Milk Carton By, Caroline B. Cooney Jane “Janie” Johnson was a fifteen-year-old sophomore in high school. She was a happy-go-lucky tenth grader, who had several close friends and a boyfriend/neighbor Reeve. Additionally, she loved her life as it was, but everything changed one day at lunch. She grabbed her friend’s milk…
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Official First Photos! Prince George Holding Princess Charlotte
This is such an adorable picture of the handsome little His Royal Highness Prince George is admiring his beautiful new baby sister. On May 2nd , 2015, Princess Charlotte was born to HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton. The couple proudly showed off the gorgeous baby girl on the steps on London’s St. Mary Hospital. However, the…
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My Reflections and Goals
As a young girl, I always dreamed of writing novels or writing for my city’s local paper. Every day, I told my friends that someday, they would see my name in the newspaper on the front page. They would generally laugh or make comments about my head being in the clouds. After hitting a hurdle…
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A Family’s Struggle with Hoarding (Chapter 3)
“Here do you want this?” Dolly snidely asked. “What is it?” Mandy answered inquisitively. Mandy instantly knew that her mother was in a bad mood today, but she was surprised when she saw the little black box she was holding. She took the little black box that her mother had given her and she…
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My Best Friend
Your doctor told me it won’t be long, Right now, I have got to be strong. Holding you close to my heart, Now, your new journey is about the start. Do you know what is happening to you? Are you ever sad, angry, or blue? How can you continue to tell your tale? Are you…
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