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The Great Plan, part 3
How It All Ends It’s January first, the dawning of a new year. As has become our tradition we celebrated New Year’s Eve with a quiet...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 13, 20248 min read
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The Great Plan pt 1
A Good Start I haven’t known where to start with this. I think I just kept waiting for the resolution, the grand finale. I’ve been...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 7, 20245 min read
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Slow & Curious
It's been one week since we left our Barriefield house. Even though I had been anticipating for quite some time how it would feel to make...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 8, 20235 min read
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For certain
Once upon a time there was a woman who loved many different things. She was a momma and loved being home with her littles, cherishing the...

Emmy Pickering
Jan 24, 20235 min read
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The Goods
I’ve never felt particularly attached to things. Sure, if you’ve ever been in my space, you know that I like to have beautiful little...

Emmy Pickering
Oct 16, 20228 min read
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Tug of War
Imagine yourself at a game of tug of war. See yourself, which side you’re on. Feel the rope twisting around your hands, the weight of it,...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 13, 20216 min read
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Too Good To Be True
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...

Emmy Pickering
May 26, 20216 min read
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It Hurts
I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....

Emmy Pickering
Apr 28, 20216 min read
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DEAR BODY
The alternative title for this was: “How’s your nervous system? Pretty fucking fucked I’ll bet!” I just wasn’t sure if that was coming on...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 31, 20215 min read
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On Purpose
We forget that we are the only ones who can truly know our experience, the manual can’t apply to you because it wasn’t written about you....

Emmy Pickering
Feb 24, 20216 min read
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Hold The Line
I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...

Emmy Pickering
Jan 27, 20219 min read
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Hold onto the Magic
It’s a hysterical start to our day, and not the good kind. Heavy emotions and a lot of questions that we’re not sure how to answer. Steve...

Emmy Pickering
Dec 9, 20206 min read
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The Life Experiment
After midnight, as December turned to January, as 2019 turned to 2020, Steve and I talked about what our intentions for the coming year...

Emmy Pickering
Oct 22, 20207 min read
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You Move I Move
Sometimes I think that I’m doing this manifestation thing all wrong. I’m too caught up in it, I’m hyper focused on an outcome, I can’t...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 16, 20207 min read
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I’m Still Learning
A couple weeks back I shared a post from my friend Sarah on Facebook, about the importance of encouraging our daughters (but all children...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 12, 20205 min read
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The Breakdown
It’s all breaking down. School. Work. Society. Medicine. Economy. Technology. All the pillars of the foundation of life that we’ve been...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 22, 20206 min read
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RE/TREAT
In a time of such uncertainty it feels like all there is to do is…pause. Since March I’ve had this huge ballooning feeling inside to get...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 8, 20205 min read
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PLEASURE | JOY | FUN
Throwback to February when I originally wrote this…I wonder, given current events and circumstances, if anyone has been able to embrace...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 10, 20204 min read
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The Wisdom of Now
Tell me if you’ve experienced this in the last couple months; long arduous days peppered with moments of joy and equal moments of grief —...

Emmy Pickering
May 27, 20207 min read
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What’s Missing
I’ve rewritten this several times, l don’t usually do that. One of my readers and besties asked me the other day what my writing process...

Emmy Pickering
May 20, 20206 min read
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