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  • Simple And Fun Ways To Fill An Emptiness In Your Life

    Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: If you are starving but can’t find food you will feel hungry. The feeling of emptiness is like emotional hunger where you become hungry for a something that you can’t get. For example the feeling of emptiness related to loneliness results from needing an intimate relation without being able…

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  • Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You

    Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You  “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar   Inside Out is a funny, witty, and clever movie portraying the role of human emotions in…

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  • Why we Should Embrace Hygge

    Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: Have you heard of “hygge” yet? It seems like every time I turn around, I see another book or an article about it! My innate curiosity lead me to doing some research about this Danish buzzword and what it really means. I ended up finding the concept of hygge…

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  • Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: Once, when visiting a mentor and spoken to him my worries he asked, “you live in terror, in constant fear, why? Have you stolen? No! Have you done something bad or bad to someone? So “ Yes, worries, doubts, and anxieties are a normal part of life. It’s natural…

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  • Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: It’s impossible to move about your day without mention of the novel coronavirus, which has spread to all 50 states throughout the United States, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest count. With over 240,000 confirmed cases and more developing every day, someone in your own community…

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  • Originally posted on Koffee with Joe:   “The wound is the place where the light gets in.”– Rumi, 13th Century poet and philosopher. Walking through the pain – feeling it, being with it, listening to it – can be our guide in getting through it and coming out the other side of it. Rumi may be telling us that…

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  • Smiling through the pain

    Originally posted on Koffee with Joe: It’s amazing how much power a smile holds. It’s contagious and brightens people’s day. It’s also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don’t be so quick to assume. Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers:…

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  • It’s impossible to move about your day without mention of the novel coronavirus, which has spread to all 50 states throughout the United States, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest count. With over 240,000 confirmed cases and more developing every day, someone in your own community may be affected — and even…

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  • The only way to move forward is to focus on the good in your life and the good that you are doing for others and yourself. My past has shown me things in life, others and myself that I wouldn’t wish upon anyone, but I can choose to pick up the pieces and build a…

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  • Smiling through the pain

    It’s amazing how much power a smile holds. It’s contagious and brightens people’s day. It’s also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don’t be so quick to assume. Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My…

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