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note to self

Measure not surrender

2025 November 22nd2010 April 20th

Listen to the voice of doubt only if it has something insightful to say, not if it’s just spouting fear.

Terri Guillemets

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Envenom

2025 April 17th1994 December 1st

Lessons from jealousy and anger:  sometimes the poison-keeper gets poisoned.

Terri Guillemets

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It’s okay

2025 October 6th1999 September 9th

Let your sorrow smile once in a while.

Terri Guillemets

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Non-verbal

2025 November 22nd2010 April 8th

I’ve adjectived up my life so much I forgot how to be simple and plain and quiet.

Be. Just be.

Terri Guillemets

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Reduced visibility

2025 April 29th2016 August 18th

A bad attitude is a fog over your whole body.

Terri Guillemets

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Morning routine

2025 July 11th2006 January 3rd

Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, breathing, exercise & fitness, gratitude, life, morning, note to self, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets, wellness

Suffering in silence

2025 July 10th2024 March 19th

If you don’t know anyone who has it worse than you, trust this — you do. You just don’t know you do.

Terri Guillemets

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Hazardous waste

2025 July 11th2006 July 7th

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, health, note to self, quotes, stress, terri guillemets
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