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Women’s, Family, and Recovery Issues

Fear ~ Sadness ~ Loss ~ Lack < JOY > Thriving

January 18, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Pretty much every morning for at least the past ten years I awake to a sense of fear and unease. In some of my writings here I have described and tackled articulating this phenomenon in various ways from various angles. I think of the Cinderella story. Like clockwork, at midnight everything about her magical life is removed and she is stripped down to her base situation....

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A Christmas Gift (to and from) Alabama Jack

December 24, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Norman “Jack” Wright was never a client of mine, per se, but on one of my computer’s three hard drives in my Client’s Folders from between 2012 to 2014 exists a folder named “JACK-ALABAMA.” In memory of Jack, I’d like to make his story part of the great story of Christmas, and gift it to whomever takes time to read this piece. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I hadn’t been living in Decatur, Alabama but maybe several months...

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Welcoming the Newcomer

December 3, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Anyone who has been a visitor at a church knows that there are a variety of ways the family of God approaches and welcomes visitors and newcomers. Over the years when in this position, there have been things that make me feel either like I want to go back, or I want to never go back there again. Today, I simply share some musings and observations about myself and others after returning for a third time to church on a...

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Friendsgiving: The WOKE Virtue-Signaling Protest of the Traditional Family

November 22, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

The purpose of this piece is to raise awareness about linguistics and how new cultural practices form. It is my hope that if we can recognize the pattern, purpose and means of infiltrating ideologies and values in one specific context, then we can better recognize trending shifts–and that which is behind some innocuous-sounding changes–in other contexts and especially, in the Church. It is not my goal to pass judgement on whether you or someone you know engages in “Friendsgiving” of...

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How Most Girls Think About Their Breasts

November 10, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s an idea (or myth) that keeps circulating around these days that it is normal for young girls to hate their developing bodies during puberty and in particular, their breasts. I’m going to go out on a limb here and boldly declare that I don’t think that I am Abby Normal, and therefore, I’d like to set the record straight (with mitigating caveats) that it is not normal for young girls to hate their developing bodies and in particular, their...

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Marriage, Divorce and Follow-Through

October 9, 2023
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Over a year ago I was going through file folders disposing of a lot of old “paper clutter”–various records and items I used to physically save before I started scanning/digitizing/disposing of receipts and other potentially-needed information. I now have a folder named DIGITAL FILE CABINET on my hard-drive with numerous subfolders–hopefully named so that if I ever actually needed a remote item-scan, I could find it in a file search. Among the many file folders were also syllabi/extra handouts from...

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Secrets Will Keep You Healthy and Safe

September 20, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

We are being asked to reframe historic understandings of all that is true, good and holy in this world. Do you believe that “secrets” kept by your children-in-pact-with-facilitators of their own self-harm and lifepath toward sterilization are keeping those dearest to your heart “healthy” and “safe?” I read this piece this morning and invite you to keep getting glimpses… Our Private School Doesn’t Know What They Don’t Know – and Students Suffer...

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PAIN – and the “Internalized Mother/Internalized Father Functions”

September 13, 2023
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Linguistics and Language Series, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

Pausing here to share a podcast that I’m early into while working. I think this one is going to be good, with a variety of thought-provoking considerations and challenges. Ignore the initial chit-chat between the two speakers over South Africa/Ireland and other ice-breaking conversations. I’m about 15 minutes in… If you have any interest in topics of trauma, PTSD, the WOKE movement and victimhood, real-and-true traumas, attachment issues (I think they will be exploring this) you may benefit from a...

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Living With Less Than/Greater Than and Wild Geese

September 6, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Thinking again (oh, STOP THAT, Eileen…) as I trudge through backlogs of clerical work and a good five hours of retroactive better-preparation handout-creating for a calligraphy class I started teaching at a library last night. For perspective, though I hate to put this here, I’m being paid $200 to do this course. It will meet for four weeks, with each class 1.5 hours long. I will drive 45 minutes each way to the location. And, I have made myself available...

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Swing Your Partner Round and Round

September 6, 2023
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Feral Thoughts, Personal Writings, Uncategorized, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I pause mid-day for this short expression, knowing (hoping) it will be brief and probably murky in content. I often get images in my mind of movie scenes ripped from context but apt in adaptation of absurdity, and more. I often come up with phrases of words at the end of a string of ruminations. “Swing your partner round and round…do-ci-do…” came to mind just now…and then…a scene from a great film called Big Fish. Divorce is a death. It...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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Do Your Homework Series: “Hegel is an Alchemist” and “Marx is a Gnostic” (Understanding Their Heretical ‘Confession of Faith’)

March 21, 2024