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Dale Howell's avatar

Hot diggity dog, Tina. Your magic is 🔥🔥🔥. How does you writing about NUMB make me FEEL SO MUCH? How can someone on the periphery of my internet friends actually be the star of the show? I love your writing. I am becoming financially abundant so I can pay to subscribe. Because nobody deserves that energetic exchange more. Your writing ....” pen sword feather match.” (That part from Lamps) xxoo

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Tina Rowley's avatar

DALE. You and Lamps just gave me the full-body sparkles and you brought a tear to my eye, too. I’m so grateful for this and for you. You *are* aliveness, madam, and you may be in the periphery for me, too, but you sure do light it up. Thank you!! ❤️‍🔥

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

Because of all of this, I stopped drinking. I cried for a month. Then the world went psychedelic. Then I realised I was going to have to spend every waking minute of the rest of my life with myself. Then I got to know what made me tick. Tina, you describe this brilliantly. Also "These things that we're complaining about, they're not the causes of our suffering. Our suffering about them is the cause of our suffering about them." Bingo. xx

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Tina Rowley's avatar

My favorite people, invariably, are the ones who’ve made a huge choice to withstand high sensation and stand wide open in the middle of life. Deepest respect. (And thank you.) 🖤

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

It was a game changer. I wish I’d done it years ago xx

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

🙌🏻

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Dee Rambeau's avatar

Restless, irritable, and discontent. Whew. Glad I don’t choose to medicate against it anymore. 🙏

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Tina Rowley's avatar

You really do get a shorter ride with all those things if you head straight in, right? Every time I try and squirrel around them it backfires.

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Dee Rambeau's avatar

Very ☺️

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Dee Rambeau's avatar

💯 Tina. Thanks for the berry real post.

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AT's avatar

This is a really great piece! ❤️❤️ Spoke to me on so many levels. I am an Enneagram 9 too and so relate to the temptation to numb constantly!

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Tina Rowley's avatar

Hey, thanks, AT!

Nines, we gotta stay cozy. 💛

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Kate Kraay's avatar

I think I must have missed this one the first go round! Holy wow. This hits home in so many ways.

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Tina Rowley's avatar

It’s an oldie! And it’s not fair, exactly, to be glad that this one hits home but I am because a) I welcome the company and b) I welcome yours all the time anywhere.

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