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Kathy is Currently Reading

Kathy is currently reading

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

by Richard C. Schwartz

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"Did not finish. This sounded good, but when the author had me try a mind exercise I didn't get the results that he said would happen." — Nov 04, 2025 02:13PM

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Kathy’s Quotes

“Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.”
― Barbara O'Connor

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“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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“You can’t get where you’re going without being where you’ve been.”
― Lisa Graff, Absolutely Almost

tags: inspirational, life

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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“It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
― Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots

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