Tag Archive: isolation

May 30

The dial tone

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May 30, 2012

My parents finally gave me a phone extension in my room when I was 12. Not, as today’s kids would assume, my own phone line, mind you. Just a handset for the house phone. 🙂

Those were hard years. I felt alone most of the time – like no one would ever understand me or …

Tags: community, connection, isolation, phone, telephone

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Nov 08

Using money

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Miracles, Money, Realizations, Relationships

by Leah Carey

November 8, 2011

Over the last couple of months, I’ve talked a lot about how dysfunctional my relationship with money has been. Tonight I have another confession to make – the degree to which I have used money to hold others at arm’s length, and even to destroy relationships.

My senior year in college, I lived in an …

Tags: friends, friendship, isolation, money, shame

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Leah Carey is a transformational workshop leader, author, speaker, and life coach. She is also a journalist for a daily newspaper covering approximately 50 communities in northern New Hampshire and Vermont. Far from being born a natural optimist, Leah has spent time in the trenches. For over two decades she struggled with chronic depression, believing that no matter how hard she worked or how much she accomplished, she was never good enough and no one could ever understand.

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