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Proud of You is a newsletter by Kristine Claghorn, a CCARE Stanford-certified compassion educator and coach. Focused on self-worth, stress, and getting unstuck, it offers insights on growth and change backed by neuroscience.
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The dimming of our stars (opens the original)
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It was quiet at night once you got used to the sounds of cicadas and katydids in the summer and the barred owls that frequented the branches of the trees towering over my childhood home in Indiana. The quiet would sometimes raise the hair on the back of my neck, and I would run up the stairs to my bedroom as if being chased by a ghost. In my bedroom, one window led to a slightly slanted roof, level enough to step out onto without fear of falling. I would crouch my way through the window, screen
Trying is winning even when you fail (opens the original)
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I’m sitting at my desk as the Earth hurls through space, orbiting the Sun at about 66,600 to 67,000 miles per hour, which is 18.5 miles per second, and I’m staring at the cursor on my screen blinking at me as if in Morse code telling me how much of a failure I am. Look how fast the Earth is moving, and here you are sitting still, doing nothing!How do you pour the thoughts in your head into words someone wants to read? The cursor mocks me, ticking like the hand of a clock. It’s wild how failure-a
The cosmic rarity of conception (opens the original)
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In the doctor’s office, I strip and put on the paper gown. I always forget which direction it’s supposed to go, and then I sit on the table, staring out the window, counting the birds while I wait for my appointment to begin. “What a beautiful view,” I tell the nurse, knowing she hears anxious women with the same comment all day, every day. It is a beautiful view of the hills in La Cañada. My blood pressure is slightly elevated, which can be normal due to nerves, she says. I wonder if she thinks
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