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Kathy is Currently Reading

Kathy is currently reading

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

by Richard C. Schwartz

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"Did not finish. This sounded good, but when the author had me try a mind exercise I didn't get the results that he said would happen." — Nov 04, 2025 02:13PM

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Kathy’s Quotes

“Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.”
― Barbara O'Connor

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”
― Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith

tags: culture, ignorance, information

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“Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while,” Calista told me. “Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.”
― Lisa Graff, Absolutely Almost

tags: cheer-up, life

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“It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
― Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots

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