Rachel Marie Martin's Blog

They say midlife is when you stop caring what people think. But it isn’t that simple. You don’t just wake up one day free…

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Goodbyes are life in motion.

You don’t often cry over what you never cared about.

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That’s my grandma and grandpa. My grandmother died in 1998, exactly one week before my daughter, Chloe, was born. In fact, Chloe’s middle name…

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I tend to worry. Wait. I worry. Sometimes I pen my worry as anxiety. Well, I’ve actually realized that if my worry goes unchecked…

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Several years ago, when my now part of the Space Force adult daughter worked at Starbucks, I told her those three words. She had…

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A letter about turning 49. It feels like I just wrote my letter about turning 39. I remember being nervous about my 40s, but also excited because for the first…

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I’ve been learning, slowly because it’s not that easy, to let go of “managing”everyone and everything else. Yes, managing. I think that’s been my role as a mom for so…

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Those are ten of my soul lessons for 2023. This is a year of holistic living for me, of daring to do new things, and living with my soul alive.…

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I lost a bit of me in the last year. Honestly, I don’t know how or when it happened. On the outside I looked productive, busy, and like I had…

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I’ve realized I spent so many years hiding my real me that in the last couple of years I didn’t want a minute of hiding me anymore. I want that…

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