In our book, we quote Dr. Mate and I believe he has some new and important strategies and research to share about all kinds of trauma including living with mental illness or addiction or depression or living with people with these traumas. https://mailchi.mp/drgabormate/qzijz9kgvu-1256494?e=0cbab5e4e0
Lynn Murphy Mark 2/10/22 A few days ago I went to a movie theater to see West Side Story on a big screen. I haven’t been in a movie theater for almost two years so this was a big escapade for me. I also didn’t know what to expect from this remake of a classic. …
Lynn Murphy Mark 02/08/22 Sunday was my youngest grandson’s third birthday. He lives in a far-away state, and with COVID still rampant there was no pilgrimage to see the festivities in person. I was blessed to be at my other grandson’s fourth birthday last year. When children live far away there’s not always an opportunity …
Lynn Murphy Mark 02/06/2022 Today I am compelled to write about a precious friend who very recently heard those three words that no one ever wants to experience, “You have cancer”. She is in a state of shock, in the beginning stages of discovering just how her life will change in the near future. Her …
02/03/2022 Lynn Murphy Mark For over 70 years I have found places where I felt an immediate connection with God, or the Universe, or the source of All That Is. As a child I recognized the ocean as something absolutely holy, though I did not know what holy meant in the deepest sense of that …
Lynn Murphy Mark 2/1/22 If you live in Saint Louis you know about the behemoth of a place called Barnes-Jewish Hospital. It sits near the line that divides Saint Louis City from Saint Louis County and is right at the Eastern edge of Forest Park, one of Saint Louis’s treasured locations. If you’ve ever been …
Lynn Murphy Mark 01/30/2022 As a child I was not allowed to express any emotions. I was to be seen and not heard. My role models for emotional expression were my parents, and they spent a fair amount of time drinking and arguing with each other. I was terrified during those loud exchanges and didn’t …
For over 15 years, I have played Mexican Train Dominoes with friends and family and have seen thousands of tile configurations as we played. Sometimes the design looked like an elephant falling down and sometimes it looked like a funky amoeba. But, it was always unique and interesting. The publishing of our book and the …
Lynn Murphy Mark 01/29/2022 This piece is about spontaneity. I can say that I have agreed to do things on the spur of the moment and have enjoyed the activity. Sometimes, though, I have made decisions on the spot that were not wise at all. I remember one day at St. Mary’s when I talked …
Note: This blog is controversial for its subject matter. It is also a very painful and personal memory. I post it because I want to add my voice to those who have had to make this decision. I also want to express my distress at the direction that judicial systems are following in attacking women’s …
This Pain Never Goes Away
By Lynn Murphy Mark
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Lynn Murphy Mark 01/25/2022 Here we go again. Not long ago I joined Weight Watchers for the umpteenth time. Through no fault of its own, it is a program that I succeed with but inevitably give up and go back to my chronic overeating. This is not a problem with WW. It is a problem …
Lynn M Mark 1/23/22 The first thing I remember was the answer my father gave to my question, “What advice do you have for me?”. I was caught off guard by his answer, “Keep your legs together.” I remember the sadness I felt after hearing the words. What I didn’t know then is that he …
Lynn Murphy Mark 01/21/2022 I was once asked when I have ever done anything differently than what was expected of me. The first thing that comes to mind is when Richard and I took 10 weeks off of our regular lives sometime in the 1970’s and traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, to study SCUBA instruction. We …
Lynn M Mark 01/19/22 “One of the things Jung taught was that the human psyche is the mediation point for God. If God wants to speak to us, God usually speaks in words that first feel like our own thoughts. How else could God come to us? We have to be taught how to honor …
Lynn Murphy Mark 01/15/2022 This is a little anecdote about the Wild Women photo from the 1990’s that hangs on my bedroom wall. We called ourselves the Wild women and we met at least once a month for laughter and food and sharing. I remember the day it was taken like it was yesterday. I …
Before my mother died, she was very clear that she wished to be cremated. She and I had taken my dad’s ashes to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to scatter them in the bay of a place that we loved dearly and had visited often in my childhood. Because she loved the sea, she told me to …
HIRAETH (hee-ryth) n. (Welsh) “A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and …
In Over My Head This is about “How to write a blog”, by someone absolutely NOT qualified or familiar with how these things work. The blog was Sheila’s idea and at the time I thought, “Sure, maybe, if we get that far…” Well, here we are. The book is published. A simple website has been …
Welcome to the KD blog! In this spot Sheila and I will continue to post stories and related items. We want you to feel as though we are old friends sitting together having coffee or tea or whatever your choice might be. You should know that we are new at the blog stuff, so we’ll …
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