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Happy New Year
As I do every year on New Year’s Eve (you probably do this, too), I think about the last 12-months of my life and contemplate just what...

Carrie Urdiga
Dec 31, 20192 min read
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But for the Grace of Gulls
I’ve been wracking my brain and trying to come up with something interesting to blog about, something spiritual but maybe not so heavy. I...

Carrie Urdiga
Oct 29, 20193 min read
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Four Years Later (The Continuing Aftermath of Suicide)
I want to say that it’s a little better with each passing year, and it is…but marginally. I still get taken aback by the rush of grief...

Carrie Urdiga
May 11, 20193 min read
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W.E.I.R.D.
Are you one of those people whom others call -weird- ? Yeah? I am, too. I grew up thinking I was weird, and for the 1st 23-years of my...

Carrie Urdiga
Mar 21, 20192 min read
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A Very Merry Christmas to You
Can you believe it? Nearly another year has passed. 2018 will soon, slide into 2019 in a silent hush, and humans will pause in the...

Carrie Urdiga
Dec 24, 20183 min read
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Taking Back Your Power
Recently, someone close to me lost their job for the 2nd time in just under a year and a half. As you can imagine, this is devastating,...

Carrie Urdiga
Sep 22, 20184 min read
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Taking Care
It’s been a while since I’ve had the energy to write a blog post and I thought the reasons why (anxiety/stress/fear/grief) would be a...

Carrie Urdiga
Aug 11, 20184 min read
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Deathiversaries
It's odd how we count the days/months and then years after someone passes over to the other side. I think the passage of time leaves...

Carrie Urdiga
May 12, 20182 min read
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Perception
Mirror, mirror on the wall... How each of us see our world is different according to our own perception – our own reality of the physical...

Carrie Urdiga
Feb 10, 20182 min read
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Becoming
Over the past decade or so (probably a bit longer) I’ve been obsessed with personal growth. I decided long ago that I wanted to be the...

Carrie Urdiga
Jan 7, 20182 min read
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Ringing in the New
Welcome to 2018. Here we are, again, looking down the road of yet another year and posing the same questions of ourselves, as we do every...

Carrie Urdiga
Jan 1, 20181 min read
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Working Through Anxiety
I have it and always have. I remember getting migraines as a child brought on by anxiety when my parents were screaming at each other...

Carrie Urdiga
Oct 3, 20173 min read
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The Letter
A while ago, I took a little writing course. One of the exercises I had to do was write a letter to myself (from my future self), one...

Carrie Urdiga
Aug 6, 20173 min read
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Why Aren’t We Teaching Children How to Manage Their Minds?
I’m taking an online introductory course in Counselling and I’m currently reading a book called: The Skilled Helper. It’s interesting....

Carrie Urdiga
Jun 18, 20173 min read
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The Aftermath of Suicide
It’s been two years to the day that the man I loved ended his life; an odd anniversary of sorts and there is still so much to say and so...

Carrie Urdiga
May 11, 20172 min read
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