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Rachel Pappas

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Rachel Pappas writes for regional and national magazines, newspapers and blogs. She is a mental health and cancer advocate, presenting at National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and teaching therapeutic writing at support groups.

Rachel teaches writing at community colleges and published Hopping Roller Coasters, about her daughter and her, both diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

BTW, I'm the one on the left in the photo. The beauty on the right is my daughter.
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Breaking Out of My Ugly Dance

A QUOTE FOR YOU …

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die
- Buddha


It's common sense that anger is toxic, but how many of us follow with our hearts before our heads? We’re human; it’s not hard to find ourselves falling into what I call my “Ugly Dance.”

What IS hard is learning to break the pattern. Some of us hug a long learning curve. I stretched mine so far, Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 23, 2012 15:48 Tags: bipolar-disorder, forgiveness, healing, mother-daughter-relationship
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Hopping Roller Coasters

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