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On healing when your heart is tired (the best I have to offer us).

First things first. Remove anything on your body involving buttons, zippers, or hooks and put on the stretchiest, coziest items in your closet. You should be as comfortable as possible right now, and even though your button-fly jeans are very hip and make your rear end look like a fashion model’s, you deserve to take a deep breath and inhabit as much physical space as you need to;

Being in The World, Journal, Love LettersErin SalmonNovember 4, 2020healing, mental health, community, peace, election season, 2020, self careComment

On being brave and learning to exhale.

At the tail end of a long work week, I found myself in a screaming match with a four-year-old. Certainly, it was not my finest hour—but if I get painfully honest, it was really just another snapshot in an ever-widening pool of evidence pointing to a truth I have long been avoiding: all is not well with my soul.

My One Word, Everyday LivingErin SalmonAugust 24, 2018anxiety, mental health, depression, carousel, popularComment

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