Homemade Soup: It's in the
Who doesn’t love a bowl of good homemade soup? It warms the body and soothes the soul like good food was designed to do. I remember my...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Dec 13, 2020
- 2 min
Cover Me
I was a late-night fan of the television show, Gun Smoke. Matt Dillion was just a cool dude in my mind. If there was a shoot-out going...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Dec 6, 2020
- 4 min
Baby Please Don't Go!
Please, Please, Please, begs James Brown in his 1958 release with the Flames. Little did some of us know that we would be crying the...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Do Opposites Attract?
Opposites Attract or so we tell ourselves when we want to be with that special someone that has totally different goals in life, totally...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Nov 23, 2020
- 2 min
Time to Love Me
I was watching the first episode of the fifth season of This Is Us as Randle explained to his sister Kate that he spent his entire life...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Tear Down Them Walls, Boundaries Are Better
I love Romantic Comedies. They are great coping tools. Many of them probably seem too predictable to some, but I love the idea that love...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Expiration Dates and Grace Periods
Lately I’ve been thinking about expiration dates and grace periods. One was created to provide us an optimal period to use certain...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Nov 7, 2020
- 3 min
I know because I must Know. It is my Purpose.
You might call me a geek, but I love the Matrix movie trilogies. I can literally quote the dialogue along with the characters. When the...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
Fake I.D., Masks, & Masquerades
When I was young people often mistaken me to be older. I was a serious adolescent with a raspy voice, long legs, and big hips. I enjoyed...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Oct 18, 2020
- 2 min
Secrets Make You Sick
The Twelve Steps and the Anonymous community were a valuable resource on my road to healing. It was in the safety of those rooms that I...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Fragile: Handle with Care
Everyone of us are members in a variety of groups that help us form multiple relationships. Each of these relationships has the tendency...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Friends, Family, & Other Familiar Foes
Families have been under attack for centuries. What started out as the traditional nuclear family, with heterosexual parents and at least...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
Please Acknowledge I'm Noteworthy
While making notes for a blog post, the individual letters of the word pain began to speak to me, “Please Acknowledge I’m Noteworthy.”...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
Breathe...
We continue to feel the effects of the historical COVID-19 Pandemic. It seems to have ushered fears from Spring 2020 well into the Fall...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Aug 8, 2020
- 3 min
Seen and Not Heard
I was raised in an era where we were taught, "Children are better seen and not heard." As we grew older and had children of our own, the...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Jul 25, 2020
- 2 min
Anger:My Weapon of Choice
Anger, a powerful, complex, default emotion. It is this emotion that we default to for more comfort and ease. It’s easier to be angry...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Jul 18, 2020
- 2 min
Tricks, Triggers, & Traps
Life is full of intentional and unintentional tricks, triggers, and traps. Some imposed by those we know and love, others by strangers,...
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Dr. Irene Bernard
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Life is A Process
The word process intrigues me for some reason. By definition it means a series of actions or events taken in order to achieve a...
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