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Daily gratitude

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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How do you Have Both a Homestead and a Chronic Illness?

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Stress, Anxiety, Grief, and Its Manifestations

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Aging in place with permaculture

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I'm an ENTJ, what are you?

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How do you feel about prepping/ survivalist culture?

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Signs that you are a permie with health issues

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Bucket stools are useful!

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the sugar season is only 'just' upon us and I've already OD'd

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How do you cope with "the munchies"?

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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How do you cope with "the munchies"?

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Things that can be done now

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I Can't Eat My Library

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Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices,

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What are you waiting for?

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Plugging up the Entry Door

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My journey with melatonin, Helicobacter pylori, but no stomach ulcer...

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Remember a day....

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Dark suspicions about how my own way of life is possible

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Grief sucks. People are wonderful.

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Combining House with My Father, My Husband Isn't Excited

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Proactive vs Reactive

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Celebrating fatherhood

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Living with a partner

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Young and searching for a positive life

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Sometimes very little makes sense

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The difficulty of having too many interests and knowing how to structure life in a meaningful way

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Building Community in the Sonoran Desert (and Beyond)

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Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices,

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Where is permaculture for the elderly?

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Things that can be done now

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Proactive vs Reactive

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Calling all Permie Pro-Bono Angels of the Earth!

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My journey with melatonin, Helicobacter pylori, but no stomach ulcer...

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Check in, all those deadly tornadoes in the last couple of days

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Young people, what are your life goals and how do you plan to achieve them?

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TRAUMA, rape, homicide, suicide, families

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Push-Ups Time!

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My Personal Journey in Film Acting and Directing

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Core Strength For Better Options

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Tai Chi of Rejuvenation

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Yoga of Contrasts

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A message of love and positivity

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I Can't Eat My Library

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Young and searching for a positive life

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Overexcitement and wanting to do everything at once

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Income: Help Me Design 'Outside-the-Box'

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Being Diabetic during a supply line crisis

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Volunteers that make you go Hmm!

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Understanding Lyme, and Autoimmune Diseases

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Gathering threads for a new “personal challenges” forum

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