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Development Digest - November 2024

Next week is Thanksgiving here in the United States. While traditionally, gratitude during this time of the year is often focused on appreciating the people in our lives and our experiences over the past year, we want to encourage you to go beyond simply feeling thankful. Can you express your gratitude through meaningful action?

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Morning Intentions Community Podcast Annette and Ada Morning Intentions Community Podcast Annette and Ada

Our New Podcast, Morning Intentions, Begins on New Year’s Day!

Some of you have asked for more information about our new Morning Intentions podcast, which will begin on January 1, 2023. The most important part of our new podcast is that it will be a resource for everyone who joins us. Our podcast will be a coaching podcast, and you will learn tools as though you are coming in personally for coaching.

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Expressing Our Experience

To show up as our best selves, we must be able to EXPRESS OUR EXPERIENCE of life with someone else. Being truly seen, heard, and known is essential to happiness. This means that we must be able to honestly express our past hurt, our current pain, our joy, our concern, our frustration, our confusion, our love, and every other experience we encounter in our lives. We must have someone to see, hear, and know us – our true authentic us.

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Befriending Ourselves

Today is Valentine’s Day – a day that some people thoroughly enjoy and also a day that brings sadness and depression to others. While there may be chocolate, cards, and special dinners, there might also be grief, disappointment, and a sense of deep loneliness.

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Coaching Annette and Ada Coaching Annette and Ada

Our June Vlog: It’s Okay If . . .

Our June vlog is up and ready to go. Whether it's coming from a parent, society, or ourselves, we all have our own ideas of what we should and shouldn't do or how life should or shouldn't be. However, some of our shoulds and shouldn'ts can get in the way of us fully expressing ourselves and creating meaningful relationships.

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More Than Our Worst Day

Last Tuesday evening, as the attendees of our Enneagram 1 class were packing up to leave, we had a quick discussion that has stuck with us. Our discussion began with someone commenting that it is sad that when people are unhealthy and behave in ways that do not serve themselves or others, the “good” they have done in their lives is forgotten or diminished.

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