Tag: childhood
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When life gives you lemons
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you limes, make limeade. And when life gives you strawberries, add them to your drinks to make them a little bit sweeter. The absolute theme of my life the past two years has been unexpected surprises. I started this blog writing to twenty-something’s like me…
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A Silver Lining of “Imperfect” Parents
Family dynamics are pretty complex things in today’s day and age. One of the joys—I say that with sarcasm—of being a twenty something is experiencing a drastic change in our relationship with our parents. For some of us, this change can be attributed to growing pains and for others it is something much more significant.…
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Everyone has a Dysfunctional Family, right?
When we were younger and we complained about our family dynamic we were told that “no one’s family was perfect, that every family had their share of baggage”. The older we got the more we realized that while everyone has dysfunction, some families were more screwy than others. Looking around at what others were going…
Now What? 