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Tag Archives: healing
Four Years Without Sawyer
This past Sunday marked four years since my dog Sawyer died. Hard to believe it’s been so long since I last held, hugged, cuddled, kissed, played with, walked with, napped with, and did life with Sawyer. Such anniversaries are always … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged David Hawkins, death, dog, Four Years Without Sawyer, grief, guilt, healing, Letting Go, Mister Rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, pain, peace, progress, relief, Sawyer, time, When a Pet Dies
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Wait Until You’re Ready
“Don’t wait until you’re ready because you’ll never be ready.” That’s a pretty common saying meant to encourage people to act sooner rather than later and to avoid giving up on their dreams. While there are some parts of life … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged dog, healing, juggling, lifting weights, readiness, ready, rushing, Sawyer, success, unicycling, Wait Until You're Ready
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Guilt Over Healing
Anyone who’s read my blog in the recent past likely knows that I’ve struggled greatly since my dog Sawyer died almost four years ago. I’m glad to say that the pain is almost gone, and the little bit that remains … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged A Grief Observed, CS Lewis, dog, emotions, grief, guilt, Guilt Over Healing, healing, Letting Go, love, pain, Sawyer, shame
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Reviewing My 2025 Goals
It’s time to review my goals for this year. Overall, I think I did pretty well, especially considering how tumultuous 2025 was and how many major changes occurred. Let’s check out my results and see if you agree.
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged bully, conversations, dog, finances, goals, healing, pain, peace, Reviewing My 2025 Goals, Sawyer
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The Importance of Quitting
Two concepts often talked about in the business world are continuous improvement and creative destruction. Continuous improvement looks to see where progress can be made with existing systems, routines, services, products, and so on. There has been a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged bad, continuous improvement, Creative Destruction, dog, emotions, good, habits, healing, quit, quitting, routines, Sawyer, The Importance of Quitting
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Reflections on My Healing Journey
I started my self-improvement journey in 2017. That journey went to the next level in late 2020 when I started practicing the letting go technique that I first learned from reading Letting Go by David Hawkins in 2019. While 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged David Hawkins, dog, healing, Letting Go, pain, Reflections on My Healing Journey, relief, Sawyer
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Incentives vs Healing
There are plenty of proposed solutions for the many problems plaguing the world. From what I’ve seen, they broadly fall into one of two categories, which I’ll call the incentives approach and the healing approach. The incentives approach uses a … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged anger, David Hawkins, dog, emotions, Fear, fighting, grief, healing, incentives, Incentives vs Healing, Letting Go, MDMA, MDMA therapy, pain, peace, psychedelic therapy, psychedelics, punishment, reward, Sawyer, trauma
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My Big Reset
In Toy Story 3, Buzz Lightyear gets reset to demo mode. This makes him forget his friends, causes him to speak and act as he did for most of the first Toy Story movie, and makes him subservient to the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged anger, Buzz Lightyear, depression, Disney, dog, Fear, fun, healing, My Big Reset, pain, reset, sadness, Sawyer, Toy Story 3
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A Letter to Myself
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Tagged A Letter to Myself, dog, healing, life, love, pain, progress, Sawyer
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