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Writing for a blog is fun. You get to express your opinion on any subject you choose, which I’ve been doing since the end of 2006. The opinions I bring to my corner of the vast Internet come out my experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, a mother of four and grandmother of eleven, wife of fifty years, the co-founder of two nonprofit organizations, author of three books, and the creator of several personal-growth websites.
My posts have covered the mundane, like food that look too good to be true and restrooms around the world to theories on life after death and an examination of why you believe what you believe. I have also suggested a constitutional amendment, which was about my second post, and posed hundreds of questions in conjunction with the Ask Yourself Questions Club, a feature of the Support4Change website.
In April of 2010 my co-webmaster, Renee Payan Wong, moved all those posts to this location and I am looking forward to writing many more in the years ahead. There won’t be so many in the area of social and political issues because I want to focus more directly on those topics that can help you enrich your lives and enrich your relationships, as the subheading of the blog says.
The title of my last book, Healing Relationships is an Inside Job, also expresses my observation that the more we enrich our own lives and work on ourselves, the more our relationships are able to heal and expand into new directions. Of course, the “inside job” we have to do doesn’t only apply to working on what we might consider our character flaws or bad habits, but on expanding our horizons, understanding ourselves better, deepening our faith and spirituality, and living in harmony with all who share this fragile earth. Therefore, while I will refrain from expressing my opinion on politics, except as an illustration of the need for dialogue, you’ll find a variety of subjects in which you may be interested.
Along the way I will share my own experience, personally and professionally, of the journey I have taken through difficult relationships in the past and my continuing journey to connect more deeply with fellow human beings. Since that path winds through mental, physical, and spiritual changes on the way to enriched relationships, I hope that here you will find a lot to think about.
If you want to comment on a post and are scrolling down through more than one post on a page, just click on the title of the post, which is written in red, and you’ll be taken to a page where you will be able to share a comment. Or you can write directly to me at the Contact page on Support4Change.
WELCOME!
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By Micky Drollinger, June 2, 2010 @ 5:38 pm
I am not a blogger. But I am reading your book, Letting Go of your Adult Children again – about the third time since it was published. It continues to remind me that my children have a right to their own lives. Thank you so much. Micky D
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By Arlene Harder, June 2, 2010 @ 7:08 pm
Micky,
Thanks for your comments. I am always glad to hear from readers who get value from any of my books. And I, too, need to be reminded now and then that my children do have the right to live their own lives — even when I am sure my ideas would be better.
Arlene
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