On setbacks…

You may have seen that I just learned to swim 2 weeks ago, after 40 years of being terrified of water. (dad/lake/near drowning). I was moving right along, swimming more and more laps, until today. Today, swimming alone, I inhaled some water & was right back there. Three or four years old and drowning, almost…

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I DID IT!!! I LEARNED TO SWIM!!!!

If you’ve been following my terror/learn to swim saga on my FB page, there’s the video proof that TODAY I DID IT!!!! Check it out HERE!!! And here’s the rest of the story…   Thank you EVERYBODY for the cheers on me learning how to swim today!!   As you might imagine from the victory…

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OUTSIDE OF NORMAL, BUT BRAVE AF!

Okay, in spite of a crippling fear of water, thanks to my Dad’s throwing me in a lake to ‘teach me how to swim’ when I was a kid (I did not learn; I did not float; I kept plummeting to the bottom…), I’m finally FINALLY going to learn to swim.  Because it’s my year…

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On courage and learning to swim…

Conquering fear… One of the worst things about depression is that it makes us afraid. Afraid of stepping outside our comfort zone, afraid of trying new things, afraid of stepping into the world and experiencing it fully–with adventures and anticipation and joy. So today I’m going to begin to tackle one of my lifelong fears:…

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