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Alex Cross and The Journey Through Grief: Finding Strength After Loss

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 Alex Cross Episode 4 Tid Bits Listen Now A look into grieving the loss of a spouse, partner, or significant other Widows and widowers trigger warnings Everyone handles things their own way Family intervention Faking the funk Don't force your expectations on a grieving person Dating Top stressors Eight steps to healing after the death of your spouse or partner

Meet Me Next Christmas Review and Recap

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Meet Me Next Christmas  It is that time for holiday movies and I am here for it. Netflix has so many that I do not even know where to begin but my first watch was Meet Me Next Christmas and I enjoyed it more than I expected. Meet Me Next Christmas stars Christina Milian, Devale Ellis, Kofi Siriboe, Kalen Allen, and The Pentatonix. First of all, you had me at Pentatonix because I love them.  Now Christina Milian is the queen of these little romcom movies and I always try to catch her because she’s cute, adorable, and seems like a really nice person. I watched her in Resort to Love which was super cute and enjoyable. I also watched Falling In Love. These were my two recent watches. I like to root for her because of her bad breakup with The Dream even though she is doing great now and has remarried. I believe she has been dating her husband since 2017, and they were married in 2020 and welcomed two new babies.  Devale Ellis her leading man is another one I am rooting for bec...

I Need a Moment: How to Adjust to Disappointment and Find Your Way Forward

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I needed a moment so I wrote a couple of poems and recorded a podcast show because I just needed a moment to be.  Adjust Breathe in know that it is your time to feel what you need to feel, your time to have a moment Wanda Toby @Litevi I Need a Moment Ya’ll gonna give me a moment  A moment to feel what I feel  To sit in this pocket of disappointment  To let the letdown flow over me and settle  in the unsettled pits of my stomach To bubble and gurgle and seethe  Just need a moment to adjust or  readjust to the dimming of hope that was ignited  a glow that dared to burn too bright in a time when darkness rallied Ya’ll gonna give me a moment  A moment to feel what I feel To get it together and figure it out Am I going to fight or watch it burn A moment to acknowledge my exhaustion To cry at the loss of humanity at the choking hands of hubris Just need these few minutes before I gotta go to work - Wanda Toby Article A Psychologist’s Advice on How ...