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Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different

November 10, 2018 by NTE 5 Comments

  Lemme tell you a not-so-secret-secret about ‘adulthood’: Nobody knows what the f they are doing. So much of being an adult is dealing with sucky situations – all the sudden a lot of your friend’s parents are dying, or your sister-in-law gets cancer (again), or this one has an affair that devastates that one, or your cousin suffers another miscarriage while her sister is expecting twins.  Literally, life just becomes chock full of situations that you are not prepared to face, and suddenly you […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: #raisingchildren, adulthood, Adulting, Anthology, Backlog, billy collins, Brené Brown, cbr10bingo, Cheryl Strayed, Emily McDowell, extraordinary poems for everyday, Helping, How to be a Heroine, Janet Fouts, Kelsey Crowe, Life choices, Life Skills, NetGalley, poems, poet, poetry, raising human beings, Rising Strong, ross greene, Rupi Kaur, Samantha Ellis, SHOW UP, The Art of Comforting, the sun and her flowers, There is no good card for this, Tiny Beautiful Things, Val Walker, When Life hits the fan

NTE's CBR10 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: #raisingchildren, adulthood, Adulting, Anthology, Backlog, billy collins, Brené Brown, cbr10bingo, Cheryl Strayed, Emily McDowell, extraordinary poems for everyday, Helping, How to be a Heroine, Janet Fouts, Kelsey Crowe, Life choices, Life Skills, NetGalley, poems, poet, poetry, raising human beings, Rising Strong, ross greene, Rupi Kaur, Samantha Ellis, SHOW UP, The Art of Comforting, the sun and her flowers, There is no good card for this, Tiny Beautiful Things, Val Walker, When Life hits the fan ·
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Some Advice We All Can Probably Use

July 14, 2017 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Those who have friends or family going through a rough time, or who someday will have friends or family going through a rough time (so, all of us). In a nutshell: Dr. Crowe and Ms. McDowell provide practical ways to be there for the people you care about when they are experiencing the worst. Line that sticks with me: “Just because you have experienced the same thing as someone else does not mean you know how they feel.” Why I chose it: Two […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: advice, Emily McDowell, Kelsey Crowe

ASKReviews's CBR9 Review No:57 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: advice, Emily McDowell, Kelsey Crowe ·
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