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Chasing Lightening Bugs
I am almost 55 years old, and I feel like a complete fake. Sometimes. Not all the time. Who am I to suggest I can upend my entire...
Leah Dawkins
Mar 162 min read
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What if...
This has been a phrase I have been contemplating for a while. What if. Simple, really, but for me powerful. What if I am stuck in traffic...
Leah Dawkins
Feb 152 min read
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Triggers and Glimmers
We all have them. Things that just set us off. And things that light up our soul. Triggers and Glimmers. Most of my life I have reacted...
Leah Dawkins
Jan 132 min read
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Chop Wood, Carry Water
As the holidays grow close, the chores to create a special time of the year seem to grow on top of each other. Every year I think to...
Leah Dawkins
Dec 15, 20242 min read
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The Closet Astrologer
Tomorrow Pluto leaves the house of Capricorn and enters Aquarius where it will stay for the next 20 years. Or so I have been told. It...
Leah Dawkins
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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Expectations Suck!
I have figured out in my life that my biggest challenge is managing expectations. Like, not having any. For any reason. It's a joy...
Leah Dawkins
Oct 21, 20242 min read
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Ooops! I did it again.
Trying something new is scary and challenging. My ‘something new’ is self-publishing a book, but for others it might be a new diet or...
Leah Dawkins
Jul 30, 20243 min read
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Growing Up Doraville
Well, the truth is I grew up Chamblee. Georgia that is. I went to school in Doraville. My house was situated on the side of...
Leah Dawkins
Jun 18, 20243 min read
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A Love Letter to My Readers
Writing my first book, Home Cries the Soul, has been a love story of sorts. It didn’t start out that way. In fact, it was a way to put...
Leah Dawkins
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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Embracing the Weird that is Me
“How much further?” my son-in-law asks, calling me as I travel down the road to meet him. He is dropping his truck off for service and...
Leah Dawkins
Apr 13, 20242 min read
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I'm a Cacoa Convert
“My turn,” I say as I step in front of my friend Katie. David graciously steps asides and allows me to join in celebrating our fellow...
Leah Dawkins
Mar 25, 20243 min read
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The Stockdale Paradox and Why Bad Things Happen to Good People
In the span of two weeks, I have watched good people, really good people, suffer imaginable pain in the form of familial deaths, chronic...
Leah Dawkins
Mar 13, 20242 min read
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I am a GUEST BLOGGER!
Excited to announce my blog titled, The Wise Woman was accepted and posted on the Elephant Journal website. Visit...
Leah Dawkins
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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The Learning Curve
I am an expert at being a nurse. I have done it for 32 years. I am also an expert at being a nurse leader. I have held leadership...
Leah Dawkins
Feb 21, 20244 min read
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How Yoga Saved My Life
It sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? But I believe with every cell in my being that yoga and my practice on the mat saved me. In 2012 I was...
Leah Dawkins
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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Leah Dawkins
Jan 31, 20240 min read
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