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Who Defines Your Grief?
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

Who Defines Your Grief?

Sometimes we judge ourselves harshly because we don’t have the grief we feel that we should feel and the grief that we do feel seems inappropriate.

Who defines our grief?

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What no longer serves
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

What no longer serves

As I watched a giant limb being lowered to the ground outside my office, I thought about letting go of that which no longer has life.

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It’s okay until it’s not
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

It’s okay until it’s not

We didn’t know the pellet was in Bear’s leg until it began hurting him, having moved to a place next to his bone.

It made me reflect on the things that we carry that are okay, until they’re not.

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Three Women
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

Three Women

What a loss it would have been to me if these three women had all been cut from the same pattern.

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Cleaning out the Storage
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

Cleaning out the Storage

We often keep old beliefs about ourselves. Maybe they were true once. Maybe they were never true. The point is, do we really want to keep them?

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The year of small things

What if life wasn’t all about go big or go home?

I decided to focus on small things this year, believing that sometimes paying attention to the small stuff (if not actually sweating it) makes all the difference.

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Finding Your Way Home
Peggy Haymes Peggy Haymes

Finding Your Way Home

I’d not planned to bring home a dog that day, but looking into those deep, soulful eyes, I knew my plans were changing. Maybe Bear would have done the same for anyone who came to see him. The thing is, he did it with me.

So why in the world do I tell you this story (other than the fact that it’s a story I love to tell?) And why in the world do I share it in this context of coaching?

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