Debbi Dickinson
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Debbi Dickinson has been a single divorced mother for 9 years. She has a teenage daughter. Debbi is also a recovered alcoholic for 9 years who’s marriage didn’t survive her getting sober.
Newly sober and divorced she struggled with reclaiming her life and writes about her experiences in her blogs. Through her own mistakes, she shares her experience, strength and hope for the bright future which today she now enjoys.
She is intimately familiar with the struggles of single parents endure whether it’s answering our children’s questions about divorce, spending holidays alone or finding love again. She also tackles topics such as dealing with ex-spouse, setting boundaries and steps to reclaiming You!
Debbi is widely published including being regularly featured in Huffington Post.
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Are you active or productive?
I have a very busy life. Toss my daughter’s calendar of activities on top of my own and we are always on the go. We are very active and we are productive when we are focused on our priorities. An active life is where you are busy. You have a lot of tasks you are doing but you don’t seem to be moving in a forward direction in your life. A productive life is where you are making improvements along the way. You are growing and stretching yourself.
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You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic
How often are you someplace enjoying yourself and someone walks in with the dark cloud hanging over their head? They can immediately pull the energy down with those around them. I think of the character Ross in the movie Monsters Inc. She is the grumbly administrative person who has a nasally voice that whines at an irritable pitch that is like finge ails on a chalk board. Her glass is half empty and feels everyone around should have their glass half empty as well. Listening to her talk in her flat voice just sucks the energy out of the air around her.
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Giving Back To Our Community - A Mother and Daughter Experience
This past weekend my 13-year old daughter and I volunteered to perform a day of service work in our community. Our commitment to service work started when she was 5 years old and we volunteered time at our church selling pumpkins during October. She knew that the pumpkins were grown by Navajo Indian farmers for income. Having sold pumpkins for the past 8 years, autumn isn't the same unless we serve our time in the pumpkin path and her of sharing with customers whom their money is benefiting.
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Who is Draining Your Emotional Energy?
We all have people in our lives that have a tendency to drain our emotional energy. It may be a family member, a child, our boss or a friend. What I have come to understand is that everyone wants to be loved. People do not come into our lives purposefully to drain us emotionally. We allow it to happen. I see two aspects of how this happens.
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How One Holiday Tradition Returned
The Holidays bring about good and bad memories of past holiday seasons. I have a girlfriend Nancy who newly divorced is having her first Thanksgiving without the kids this year. It's tough; there is no denying it. Thanksgiving will be different for her; but that doesn't mean it'll be bad. We've talked about my first Thanksgiving without my daughter and new traditions I put in place when celebrating as a single person. For me, service work was a blessing.
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My Plan - The Importance of Sticking to It
My marathon training is well underway. With the heat wave coming through the Chicago area the past several weeks, it has been miserable running conditions. But I have been reminded of what I tell other women; develop a plan and stick to it. No Excuses! So for my running schedule calling out a 4 mile run tomorrow and knowing the heat index will be 110; it means that for personal safety I can't run at my preferred time which is the end of the day or sometimes lunch.
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Why Free Floating Anxiety Drives Me Crazy
Do you ever have times in your life when everything is going great yet you just have this nagging feeling that impending doom is on the horizon? It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop. You aren’t quite sure where the problem will come from, but you are convinced there will be a problem. That is Free Floating Anxiety. My personal belief is that we feel this way because we have had times in our past where life was humming along smoothly and we got hit with a negative life event out of the blue. You’ve probably had this experience a few times in your past.
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How To Build Confidence FAST!
Do you know someone who seems to effortlessly achieve goals they set out to accomplish? And they reach those goals quickly? Their secret is simple – self-confidence. Part of healing from divorce is the quest for rebuilding of self-confidence that can erode over time in a marriage. Here are ideas you can implement immediately to gain confidence in achieving your goals:
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Responding to the Call of Self-Love
What is Self-Love? For me, Self-Love means that I am making my needs a priority in my life. Society teaches women to put the needs of others in front of ourselves. For years I did that. Work came first. When I married, my husband came first. Then when my daughter was born her needs also came before mine. I was exhausted since I gave everything I had to those around me. I was clueless that my soul was crying out for attention. Overtime, I lost the essence of who I was as a woman since I was so focused on others.
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Do Not Hold Back
What happens when we hold back? I know for me, I feel like I have not given my full effort. It may be a project I am working on, it may be making dinner or it may be my contribution in an office meeting.
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How to Keep Your Options Open
Do you set your eyes on a goal and keep your focus and energy on attaining it? Your goal may be a promotion, saving for European vacation or getting Christmas presents bought in record time. I can have tunnel vision when I’m focused on a goal. It amazes some of my friends that when I get into my zone; I can laser in and work relentlessly to attain whatever I set my eyes on. What I have learned is that keeping my laser focus can also be a liability if I do not keep my options open.
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How are You Steering Your Life?
From what viewpoint are you looking at your life? Are you looking in the rear-view mirror or are you looking through your windshield? Looking through your rear-view mirror is viewing life with chains of the past. Some of these chains may be limiting beliefs that were drilled into your head as a young girl. “You will work in the family business” “Girls are never good at math or science” “You are not smart enough to graduate from college”
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