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Read more about the article Narcissism: The Truth behind the Word

Narcissism: The Truth behind the Word

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:June 5, 2022
  • Post category:Blog Post/Healing/Mental Health/Mindset/Relationships
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We are in an age when people are throwing around mental diagnoses like they're candy in a parade. Narcissism has been a word batted around a lot in popular culture.…

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Read more about the article 3 Reasons to Embrace the Power of “And”

3 Reasons to Embrace the Power of “And”

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:April 24, 2022
  • Post category:Blog Post/Mindset/Personal Growth
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"And" is a very small word that can wield a lot of power. Let's embrace those three letters as a word of connection, inclusivity, and gathering. Uniting and including are…

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Read more about the article 5 Reasons to Get Outside This Winter

5 Reasons to Get Outside This Winter

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:January 9, 2022
  • Post category:Blog Post/Health & Fitness/Outdoors
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Brrrr. It's cold and windy and miserable outside. Time to find a comfy couch, a cuddly blanket, a cup of warmth, and a remote control or book and stay inside…

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Read more about the article Living in Abundance: 5 steps to Loving What You Have

Living in Abundance: 5 steps to Loving What You Have

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:November 21, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/Healing/Holidays/Mindset/Personal Growth
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"If you look at what you have in life, you will always have enough. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." Oprah Winfrey.…

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Read more about the article In Praise of Boredom: 5 ways boredom is good

In Praise of Boredom: 5 ways boredom is good

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:October 31, 2021
  • Post category:Family/Motherhood/Parenting/Personal Growth
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Boredom: the state of feeling wearied by dullness, tedious repetition, and apathy. Synonyms include apathy, indifference, disgust, lethargy, and monotony. Thanks, dictionary people. What a downer. How can any of…

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Read more about the article The Power of the Pause: 5 Ways to Add a Little Space in Your Life

The Power of the Pause: 5 Ways to Add a Little Space in Your Life

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:October 3, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/Mental Health/Mindset/Personal Growth/Women
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Pause. Feel your heartbeat. Take a big breath in and let your lungs inflate as full as they can. Pause and hold. Now exhale and let all that luscious breath…

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Read more about the article The Five Love Languages through Zucchini

The Five Love Languages through Zucchini

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:August 15, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/Community/Family/Recipes/Relationships
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The summer light is fading, the morning is starting to have creamy crispness to it, and our gardens are full of zucchini. This zucchini squash quandary is not new...it has…

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Read more about the article Nine Things to Do When You Have an Empty-Nest

Nine Things to Do When You Have an Empty-Nest

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:June 27, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/Family/Mindset/Motherhood/Parenting/Personal Growth
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The day that all older women told me about arrived recently...my fourth and last baby has graduated from high school and will quickly be out on his own. While endlessly…

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Read more about the article Finding My Soul in the Garden: Digging for Healing and Health

Finding My Soul in the Garden: Digging for Healing and Health

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:April 18, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/DIY/Memories/Mindset/Outdoors
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Gardening has been the bane of my existence. I grew up in a very rural area of Iowa surrounded by acres and acres of corn and soybeans and alfalfa. The…

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Read more about the article In Honor of My Beautifully Broken Brain: My TBI Journey

In Honor of My Beautifully Broken Brain: My TBI Journey

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:March 14, 2021
  • Post category:Blog Post/Healing/Health & Fitness/Mental Health/Personal Growth
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March is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Month. My TBI story begins on a perfectly beautiful, bluebird-sky day in early February 2013. While driving my son's acting friends to their drama…

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Read more about the article The 2020 vision board…what happened?

The 2020 vision board…what happened?

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:December 27, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Goals/Mindset/Personal Growth
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2020...the year. Who visualized this? It's been something....how's that vision board holding up? Last year I wrote an article about designing your vision board for 2020. Touting its propensity to…

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Read more about the article The Benefit of Trying New Things

The Benefit of Trying New Things

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:November 8, 2020
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This is a story of trying new things...and the regret of listening to others. It's probably a familiar story to some. Picture this: it's 2010 and I have just returned…

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Read more about the article The Grounding Effect of the Library

The Grounding Effect of the Library

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:October 4, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Community/Mental Health
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It's a badly held secret that I am absolutely infatuated with libraries...public, personal, or fictitious. Where there is a gathering of books and information is where I would like to…

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Read more about the article Three Ways to Know You are Making the Right Decisions for You

Three Ways to Know You are Making the Right Decisions for You

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:August 23, 2020
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If you are like everyone else on the planet right now, you have a great pile of decisions to make. Should I go to the grocery store? Should I travel…

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Read more about the article Birds Build Nests…Why Am I Nesting?

Birds Build Nests…Why Am I Nesting?

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:July 19, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Declutter/DIY/Family/Home Care/Personal Growth
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Mid-March I became a different person...a nesting person. Not only did I "celebrate" another trip around the magnificent sun, I also compulsively began to clean and re-clean and decorate and…

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Read more about the article Yelling: How to Get Your Message Across

Yelling: How to Get Your Message Across

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:June 28, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Family/Mindset/Parenting/Personal Growth/Relationships
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Early in the lock-down, I realized that I had no area in my house to "take" my yoga class. Work was from home, college was from home, high school was…

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Read more about the article Envy, the Little Green Monster

Envy, the Little Green Monster

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:May 24, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Mindset/Personal Growth/Writing
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I'll be honest with you, until a little while ago I did not grasp the difference between jealousy and envy. I thought they were synonyms for one another. So when…

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Read more about the article Fighting your Inner Mean Girl with Positive Self-Love

Fighting your Inner Mean Girl with Positive Self-Love

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:March 1, 2020
  • Post category:Blog Post/Healing/Mindset/Personal Growth
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Up until fifth grade I felt I had led a positive, normal Midwest life. Although not together, my parents loved me. I had lots of books to keep me happy…

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Read more about the article Vision Boards – Express Your Desires and Visualize Your Future

Vision Boards – Express Your Desires and Visualize Your Future

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:December 29, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/DIY/Goals/Mindset/Personal Growth
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There is a lot of buzz around the idea of vision boards. You've been probably seeing vision board workshops popping up all over your social media accounts. Is this something…

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Read more about the article A Christmas Love Story: How A Dog Became My Greatest Gift Ever

A Christmas Love Story: How A Dog Became My Greatest Gift Ever

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:November 25, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Family/Healing/Health & Fitness/Mental Health/Pets
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All good love stories start the same way...a brain injury and cold noses. Get some hot cocoa and a snugly blanket and let me tell you all about the Christmas…

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Read more about the article Mind Your Gurus: How to Manage All Those Voices We Follow

Mind Your Gurus: How to Manage All Those Voices We Follow

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:October 14, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Mindset/Personal Growth/Relationships
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Jim Rohn, a renowned businessman, once said, "You're the average of the five people you spend most of your time with." In short he's saying we emulate who we surround…

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Read more about the article Be the Dog: Lessons I Learned from my Greyhound

Be the Dog: Lessons I Learned from my Greyhound

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:September 2, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Goals/Healing/Health & Fitness/Mental Health/Mindset/Personal Growth/Pets
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Cat people vs. dog people I am not...strike that. I WAS not a dog person. It's been said that there are two kinds of people in this world...dog people and…

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Read more about the article It’s a Hill of a Life- Lessons From my 450 Mile Bike Ride

It’s a Hill of a Life- Lessons From my 450 Mile Bike Ride

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:August 12, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Goals/Health & Fitness/Mental Health/Mindset/Outdoors/Personal Growth
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I have a problem...I love an epic adventure. I love a new challenge...a physically-draining, heart-wrenching challenge where you have to dig down to the deepest bit of your soul to…

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Read more about the article The Evolution of my (S)Heroes

The Evolution of my (S)Heroes

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:June 24, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Family/Healing/Motherhood/Personal Growth
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Every kid wants a hero. Someone who is bigger, stronger, and more powerful, who will defeat the bad guy, and inspire them to be more. Often it is quoted that…

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Read more about the article Hey, I know you! New Phase…Same Family

Hey, I know you! New Phase…Same Family

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:May 13, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Family/Motherhood/Parenting/Personal Growth/Relationships
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Hello! It started innocently enough. We were two 19-year-old college freshman, and we only had eyes for each other. And, we had it badly.  We could talk for hours about…

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Read more about the article A Penny’s Worth of Thoughts: Collecting Valuable Moments with your Children

A Penny’s Worth of Thoughts: Collecting Valuable Moments with your Children

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:April 22, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Mindset/Motherhood/Parenting/Relationships
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The glimmer of sweet, sweet coins Nothing makes me happier during a run or a walk than catching a small glimmer in the street. A small glimmer that is of…

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Read more about the article The Beauty of Birthdays- Let’s Celebrate

The Beauty of Birthdays- Let’s Celebrate

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:April 1, 2019
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I love March! Not only is it the start of spring when daffodils start popping out their bright yellow heads out of the ground, it's also MY birthday month...and a…

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Read more about the article Coffee, Love, and Other Things Important in My Life

Coffee, Love, and Other Things Important in My Life

  • Post author:Dawn Miller
  • Post published:March 4, 2019
  • Post category:Blog Post/Relationships
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My Coffee Pot died today…. well, kind of.  It ALMOST died today...it was a tragedy for about 10 minutes.  Don’t worry...I already had a new one bought in my head. …

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