Tag Archive: anger
“I need help.”
Over the past several years, I’ve gotten pretty good at knowing my own mind and asking for what I need. But hot, fat tears ran down my cheeks as I typed those three words.
The logjam started a couple months ago while I was working on the 175th anniversary special edition for …
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The past 24 hours have been very enlightening – not easy, but enlightening. 🙂
Yesterday I had an issue with a company that spanned conversations with several customer service agents. By the time I got to the supervisor, I was irritated. No one I’d spoken with seemed to have any interest or ability to solve …
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I’ve had a fascinating opportunity this week to practice the second of Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements: “Don’t take anything personally.”
As a habitual people pleaser, I made taking things personally a high art. In the last few years, I’ve made a conscious effort to take my sensitivity down a notch or six and realize that …
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I had a profound – and profoundly disturbing – realization this morning as I spoke with my prayer partner. I was telling her about an upsetting conversation I’d had over the weekend and, as sometimes happens, I started to hear myself speaking as if I were sitting on my own shoulder. From that place, I …
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First of all – 117 likes on last night’s post…and still counting! Wow! I’m assuming that a fair number of those are from new readers. I’m very pleased to welcome you to The Miracle Journal. If you’ve got a miracle that you’d like to share, please click here. I post reader-submitted miracles periodically.
On to …
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Tonight I feel cranky and unsettled. Nothing bad happened today, but it was a difficult day nonetheless. A day when I felt like the air around me was crackling with static and my own discomfort.
Tonight I don’t really feel like writing any of my own stuff. Instead a story comes to mind that I …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2011/08/09/two-monks/
Tonight a friend mentioned my post from earlier this week about my grandfather. It expanded to a longer conversation about family dynamics and led me down a garden path of family memories that I haven’t traveled in a while. Unlike some of the other experiences I’ve related recently of re-visiting old memories, this was not …
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