Tag: mental-health
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A New Chapter: From Expresso Reflections to Gladiator Women
A Personal Note About This New Chapter If you’ve been here for a while, you know that Expresso Reflections was born during a season when I was simply trying to make sense of life as it was unfolding — the challenges, the exhaustion, the grief, and the small moments of hope in between. Writing was…
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Runaway Train: Confessions of an Overthinker
Hi, my name is Tenia and I am an overthinker. I have the gift of taking a simple, single thought and turning it into a catastrophic event, all taking place within my mind. Outwardly, I am withdrawn, moody, sometimes angry, and almost always hard to live with during these episodes of overthinking. Oftentimes it is…
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Self-Care Through the Decades
Self-care has become a buzzword that we often hear, but it is not a new idea. We have been practicing self-care for decades. Maybe that was not what it was called in 1950, but the concept certainly was present in daily life. As the decades passed, those daily activities changed and we lost ourselves in…
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