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Women’s, Family, and Recovery Issues

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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An Army of Girls With Phantom Breasts

August 18, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I admire those who have a way with words in their writings. Today, I read this well-expressed piece by another writer on Substack (What if it won’t be enough?) and took note of two phrases that struck me, combining them into my title. She mentions an army of girls and then later toward the end, the idea of having phantom breasts. In case any reader is unclear of the context, this is a direct reference to the reality of having...

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When Joy Does Not Come Quickly Enough

August 15, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV) “One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5, NET) “In thy right hand are pleasures forever.” (Psalm 16:11, LSB) __________ Imagine a world where there are multiple, overlapping and seemingly never-ending sundowns and sunrises (many situations and conditions), and in that, you might get a different glimpse of the landscape of the human soul. It is...

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The “Child” in One Hundred Years

August 13, 2023
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Covid Pandemic Issues, Information and Ethics, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Last year one of my sons texted me a photo and said, “And then THIS happened.” He was showing me the results of his red heeler “knocking up” a friend’s aging beagle. I saw on my phone screen nine nursing pups with eyes yet closed. About a month later, this was the scene… This morning I went to search a certain biblical story on YouTube, but became distracted with the first link that showed/was suggested in my customized feed (the...

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Safe and Unsafe People

August 2, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

About twenty years ago I was in a conversation with a friend and she said that as humans, we tend to subconsciously (or consciously) categorize every other human as either safe or unsafe. Of course this was in the context of relational issues, but I think it has other layers that can involve physical safety and spiritual safety. And this conversation about what it means to be a safe person occurred long before the current linguistical shifts and movements that...

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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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