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            <div><h3>Sometimes people are good at slyly creating your triggers, then acting like the kind-hearted hero to save you and prey…</h3></div>
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            <h2>Closet Floor Cry</h2>
            <div><h3>I broke down in complete surrender, gratitude, and reflection on a dream still on hold but never leaving my path.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>I Choose Me</h2>
            <div><h3>Saying yes to my mental needs, physical health, and spiritual guidance should be easier without feeling guilty.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Where Do You Belong?</h2>
            <div><h3>Do you find your authentic place fitting in with the latest trends, fads, and social cycles or telling your own story…</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>When Was the Last Time You Got Lost?</h2>
            <div><h3>After a shopping excursion with my daughter, we made the best of our forced alternate route home.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Postpone the Day</h2>
            <div><h3>Does your to-do list dwindle when all your multi-tasking overlaps your purpose?</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>A Cry for Help From Mirror Mirror on My Wall</h2>
            <div><h3>Are you watching and listening when the wounded soul looks straight at you, begging for help?</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Freedom From the Cage</h2>
            <div><h3>Don’t let anything or anyone hold you back from your purpose.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Send My Burden to the Moon</h2>
            <div><h3>Is my burden heavier because of gravity, or do I still need to let go and let it take flight?</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>When memory loss pulls pages out of your mental scrapbook, find what’s left and rebuild from there.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Finding Joy in The Junk</h2>
            <div><h3>Do messages filter through your mind like processing emails? Do you skip the listening, filter right past the trash…</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Out On a Ledge</h2>
            <div><h3>I feel my tipping point and am fighting to claw my way back.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>I’m Not Finished, Yet</h2>
            <div><h3>Cherish the moment has even more value than I ever realized in our world today.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>A Snowstorm’s Life Lesson</h2>
            <div><h3>Looking at a day or experience in the view of starting again with a clean slate can provide your needed hope.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>When Things Are Going Well, the Negative Voices Can Creep Back In</h2>
            <div><h3>Identify where they come from and what they want.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>You can start over today, any day, without waiting for January 1st.</h3></div>
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            <div><h3>Prevent harm in the atmosphere of a violent disturbance in your life.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Undeniable Loss for My Child I Never Knew</h2>
            <div><h3>A mother’s miscarriage devastates a lifetime of dreams, not only weeks or months of an unbreakable bond.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Taking Apart My Soul</h2>
            <div><h3>Put it back together and stitch it piece by piece.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>A Strange Object of Comfort</h2>
            <div><h3>A child’s toy carries memories through the ages.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>Communication won’t get better without practice. Put in the hard work.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>I Made $10.66 in November on Medium. My Teen Son Made $50 Online.</h2>
            <div><h3>Let’s celebrate.</h3></div>
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            <div><h3>Reflection comes to remind us.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>Is this goodbye 2021, or were you 2020 on playback mode?</h3></div>
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            <h2>You Always Have a Way Out</h2>
            <div><h3>When you’ve existed in the caved shadows for so long, it’s hard to see the light coming in and calling you out.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Whose Voices Do I Hear?</h2>
            <div><h3>When all the voices don’t stop, I will still listen and choose.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Where Does Art Reside?</h2>
            <div><h3>What you see is different in me.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>The Power of Friends</h2>
            <div><h3>Laughing with friends is more important than work, duty, or writing. Don’t turn it down.+</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>How Snow Became White</h2>
            <div><h3>Miracles bring stories to life.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Missing Multiplies</h2>
            <div><h3>How many times have you not said something you wanted to say?</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Nature’s Beauty Streams</h2>
            <div><h3>Evolving landscapes tell a story. Be still and listen for its change.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>My Writing Passage</h2>
            <div><h3>I am seated in my most life-fulfilling purpose, freely sliding along the expanse in our continuum of time.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>Most of us want to save our earthly environment, then look where nature is saving us.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <h2>Sporadic Jungle</h2>
            <div><h3>No matter how scattered or isolated your life and emotions can get, there is always hope.</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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            <div><h3>Feelings in flight</h3></div>
            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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Greetings friends.

Hello! I am Nicole.

Welcome to my profile — February 2024

About Me

Interview

What I do

My Mission

Finding My Way Out of My Eating Disorder

My Eating Disorder Self Staked its Claim on My Brain

I needed to reclaim my head space not lose my mind

Fighting More Long-term Fears

Broken Courage

When a single moment provokes fear that lasts for decades

A Long Road to Motherhood

My Infertility Climb

The journey of motherhood can start years or decades before a child enters the timeline

Restarting My Life

Chasing Life…and So It Begins

Travel opens up more roads in our lives than only those beneath our feet and rolling wheels.

Family Fiction

Mom, Can I Catch Anorexia?

This story is an honest look at a young girl’s struggle and the fight for her sister to recover from an eating…

Valuable reference for parents

How To Know Your Child Has an Eating Disorder

These are signals to look for, signs of struggle, and steps to support recovery.

Family Guidelines Bring Out Your Best

I will share how to reap the rewards of parenting challenges with life-long lessons. Lead by example and use gentle…

My First Poetry Collection

Mosaic Poetry Collection

These are thoughts and themes brought together to tantalize your senses and stir your emotions.

My Top Performing Poem

Oh, My Brussels Sprouts

Do you have childhood food memories that traumatized your taste buds and now spark them to dance?

Breaking Out of My Box in Writing and Life

Stop Putting Me in a Box

When you aren’t who you used to be, or your survival self, but a new optimistic explorer in life meant to break out of…

Honoring my Oma and Opa

A Cherished Clock Tells More Than Time

This old clock symbolizes travel through a country’s division, passing to the next generation, celebrating unity with a…

Old School vs. New School

How to hold on to “the good ol’ days”

Business perspective with care

How To Use the Trade and Barter System Today

With rising grocery prices, small businesses going under, and landlords expecting what you don’t have, it’s time for a…

Family

Tesla Road Trip Traveler Interview

Bryan Hauer shows you the ropes to camp Tesla style, and you can follow his adventures on his YouTube channel to the…

The top articles I’ve written

Ways to support me and more of my writing adventures

Join Medium with my referral link — Nicole Sponsel

As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…

My most recent articles/poems

My Unwritten Words Play Hide and Seek

Do your fleeting thoughts, spinning mind, or search for purpose participate in a game of lost and found words only to…

Shattered Reflections

Let the art speak.

Disappearing

You can mentally feel like you are disappearing at times, but what if it physically manifests truth?

Leap of Faith

Sometimes taking a leap of faith happens every day to get you to your next.

Your New Move for Victory

Take a step back to see your entire playing field and work through your moves in a positive direction.

No Eye Contact Let Me Disappear

When you speak to someone right in front of you, do they look in your eyes or direction or entertain every other option…

In the Quiet Hours, All Alone

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