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Best of this year in personal challenges

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What Would You Do ? Relating to: trauma, hoarding, exhaustion/overwhelm

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personal challenges

How do you cope with "the munchies"?

54 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 3 23

personal challenges

Things that can be done now

16 replies 1 32

personal challenges

I Can't Eat My Library

33 replies 1 30

personal challenges

How do I turn my wish into reality?

62 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 18

personal challenges

Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices,

12 replies 1 23

personal challenges

What are you waiting for?

14 replies 7 21

personal challenges

experiences with melatonin for sleep?

22 replies 1 4

personal challenges

Having a very hard time with this

20 replies 1 1 18

personal challenges

Plugging up the Entry Door

13 replies 16

personal challenges

Is it just the seasons changing or do I need a new adventure?

17 replies 11

personal challenges

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

11 replies 2 25

personal challenges

Dark suspicions about how my own way of life is possible

7 replies 11

personal challenges

Grief sucks. People are wonderful.

7 replies 8

personal challenges

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

13 replies 10

personal challenges

Proactive vs Reactive

2 replies 9

personal challenges

Celebrating fatherhood

5 replies 11

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Living with a partner

5 replies 15

personal challenges

Young and searching for a positive life

5 replies 4 5

personal challenges

Sometimes very little makes sense

13 replies 3

personal challenges

Overexcitement and wanting to do everything at once

7 replies 5

personal challenges

Longing for Belonging

14 replies 2

personal challenges

TRAUMA, rape, homicide, suicide, families

5 replies 3

personal challenges

A message of love and positivity

4 replies 3

personal challenges

How do I schedule things as a single parent?

1 reply 2

personal challenges

Building Community in the Sonoran Desert (and Beyond)

1 reply

personal challenges

Presidio Land available for farming

2 replies

personal challenges

Came back from a short vacation to -20C and pigeon squeakers

3 replies 1 2

personal challenges

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

2 replies

personal challenges

pull-ups assessment

14 replies 3 2

personal challenges

Being Diabetic during a supply line crisis

0 replies 1 1

personal challenges

Where to find f/t rv acreage in CO/OR/WA?

7 replies 1

personal challenges

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

2 replies

personal challenges

My Personal Journey in Film Acting and Directing

9 replies 7 1

personal challenges

Art as Dynamic Edge of Personal Growth

5 replies 16

personal challenges

Push-Ups Time!

3 replies 3

personal challenges

Tai Chi of Rejuvenation

0 replies 1

personal challenges

Core Strength For Better Options

0 replies 1

personal challenges

Yoga of Contrasts

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