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Word of Appreciation Matter

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, April 6, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I’m up early this morning, and I already have tears. Good ones, though, thankfully. Every morning, I wake up to an email inbox full of unread messages, at least 30 or 40 every day. A few are marketing emails, some are related to my professional...

Update Your Self Care

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, April 4, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Girl, why are you struggling so hard to take care of yourself? Why are you chasing that thing that has always calmed you down? What you used to do to feel better? How you have coped before? You’re not the same person. You are not...

20 Ways To Love Yourself

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, March 16, 2022 • Leave a Comment

1) Don’t respond to that email, text, or phone call. 2) Let that housework wait; it will still be there later. 3) Take a shower, smell good, and show up with your chin up. 4) Say “no” with a smile, because you really are too...

Let go of the crap.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, March 10, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Funny, isn’t? Funny to think about your old self, or maybe what the rest of the world is still doing, when you decide to be completely done with… Stupid crap. Fake crap. Meaningless crap. Other people’s crap. Political crap. Crap that ain’t my business. Dramatic...

Can’t Blame Myself

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, March 3, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I’m the poster child for thinking of ways to blame myself when something “goes wrong” with my kids…if they acted irresponsibly, after they said something disrespectful, or best yet, when they got a mental health diagnosis. After the discovery of clinical OCD, general anxiety disorder,...

Guilty.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, February 22, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I’m guilty. I don’t always share my problems, because I don’t want to be a burden to anyone. I don’t want them to think I’ve lost it or that I’m making excuses. Guilty! I keep things to myself, because “they’ll blow over” or “I’ll just...

I want you to be happy. Really.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, January 17, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Y’all notice the “support other women” movement happening over the last few years? It’s louder than ever. You can barely scroll any social media outlet twice without seeing posts, verses, and memes about women encouraging women. I don’t know where the sentiment comes from and,...

Who I am intended to be…

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, January 7, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I made a blog post this morning about “boundaries”. Go check it out, if you missed it. And in response to a comment, I mentioned that I hated to be late to the party on learning about boundaries but was sure glad I had at...

“Boundaries” is not psychobabble to me.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, January 7, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I did not like the word “boundaries” before now. The great Dr. Laura Schlessinger (I’m a fan.) has always considered it what she calls “psychobabble” (a word overused by mental health professionals instead of just cutting to the chase). I tended to agree. Psychology words...

Therapy: Everybody needs it.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, January 6, 2022 • 2 Comments

About a year ago, I saw an ad on Facebook for something called BetterHelp. I stopped scrolling, because some girl was talking, and all the comments were about how soothing and beautiful her voice was. This, I had to hear. I didn’t have my sound...