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by Michael Parise | Apr 25, 2021
Veterans and spouses, I challenge you! Can you take a few moments to read and respond to this? I want and need you’re your insights and input to a few important questions. Over the past couple of years I’ve posted a lot to elicit responses from American veterans....
by Michael Parise | Mar 9, 2018
Many of us spend at least half the day judging or second-guessing ourselves. We’re simply never worthy, never enough. We somehow think that berating ourselves by correcting our behavior is the key to happiness…or at least being perfect…and therefore...
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by Michael Parise | Dec 27, 2016
Today I was thinking, or rather obsessing, about a friend of many years who has been impossible to contact. I consider her a close friend, a confidant on whom I depended during the most difficult times of my recent life. She doesn’t answer phones, emails or voice...
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by Michael Parise | Jan 2, 2013
My mind is the clearest in the morning, particularly when I’m showering. Images, concrete and imagined, trigger a lot of thoughts. It feels like layers of protective barriers are washed away and I get to peek into what is making me tick. Or maybe I just have too...
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by Michael Parise | Jul 19, 2012
What have you done for me lately? How often we imagine our boss saying that to us? What if we heard it from our significant other, our kids or our friends? Being judged by our performance of tasks is not always unusual or unfair. This is the norm in a world where...
