by Ginger Sullivan | Sep 19, 2017 | Emotional Health
I am in paradise this week. Pristine beaches – ones where you can get to the balmy 87-degree ocean water without having to step over bodies. Spanish moss hangs off the trees, bringing just enough eeriness to remind yourself that you are not home. Add to that not...
by Ginger Sullivan | Sep 12, 2017 | Emotional Health
“A little to the left, Johnny!” “Ah, too much. Back right a bit.” Evidently, if you are on a long flight cross country, the airplane is never on course. In fact, it stays off course. Those pilots we imagine eating chips and flirting with the flight attendants are...
by Ginger Sullivan | Sep 5, 2017 | Emotional Health
Got Emotional Strength? If so, you … Keep going when the odds are stacked against you. Feel all your feelings rather than avoiding the painful ones. Shut your mouth when you want to yell venom to someone you care about. Not take something personal when it isn’t...
by Ginger Sullivan | Aug 15, 2017 | Emotional Health
What is your biggest trigger? You know. The event, incident, button that when pushed, your insides explode. You lose all sense of rationality. Your grounded adult self flies out the window like a large pink gum wad onto the passing highway. Your regressed inner child...
by Ginger Sullivan | Aug 8, 2017 | Emotional Health
Definition Day: Guilt: The painful feeling of regret and responsibility for one’s actions. I did/did not do something wrong. I shouldn’t have eaten the whole box of cookies. I should have gone to see my grandmother before she died. Guilt motivates me toward action. I...
by Ginger Sullivan | Aug 1, 2017 | Emotional Health
I lost my mama this week. Not my mama. But my mama-mama. The woman that raised me. The one that shielded me. The one that fried chicken in Crisco (with milk gravy on the side) and made strawberry cake for my birthday. The one that hugged me every morning, so tightly...
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