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Are You a Trauma Magnet?

by Trula on August 24, 2010

“All I ever wanted was what I have now – to be in a stable relationship and have dogs. And yet all my life I have been like a magnet for traumatic experiences.” ~Augusten Burroughs I read this in an interview writer Augusten Burroughs did with The Independent and it struck me to my core. [...]

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Learning How to Go with the Flow

by Trula on December 5, 2009

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. ~anon Sometimes it seems to me that I do things with the best of intentions, with the utmost planning to details, but then get easily thrown off track when anything slightly goes not according to plan. I am starting to understand that a certain [...]

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We Are Inherently Good

by Trula on September 5, 2009

The great, dominant, all controlling fact of this life is the innate bias of the human spirit, not towards evil, as theologists tell us, but towards good. But for that bias, man would never have been man; he would only have been one more species of wild man ranging a savage, uncultivated globe, the reeking [...]

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