To Tell You the Truth

To Tell You the Truth

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Would You Like A Grief Cookie?
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So, What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Teeth?
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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A Risk I'm Willing to Take
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Circles > Triangles
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Joy Is Not a Luxury
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We Call This Being Human
On shame, epigenetics, and generations of women learning how to break through
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Circles > Triangles
On female friendship, choosing your friends, and trusting in the power of the circle
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Joy Is Not a Luxury
A midwestern-eldest-daughter defeats the odds and begins to grasp there may be more to life than just working really, really hard.
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
On being a good lifeboat and rowing back to the parts of ourselves we've left behind.
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Would You Like A Grief Cookie?
On love as containment, holding ourselves the way we always wanted to be held, and making something with our grief
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So, What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Teeth?
I care more than I ever thought possible about my children losing their baby teeth. As it turns out, it’s not really about the teeth.
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Paper Houses
What kind of houses are we building for our faith, for our lives?
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Loved into Being
Five Good Things for April
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On Conclave and the "Sin of Certainty"
Five Good Things for March
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To Tell You the Truth
To Tell You the Truth
Telling the truth with visceral, embodied storytelling. Freeing others to do the same.
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