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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 8
- 5 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jan 24
- 5 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Oct 16, 2022
- 8 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 13, 2021
- 6 min
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,...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 26, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Apr 28, 2021
- 6 min
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....
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Emmy Pickering
- Mar 31, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Feb 24, 2021
- 6 min
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....
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Emmy Pickering
- Jan 27, 2021
- 9 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Dec 9, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Oct 22, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Sep 16, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 22, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jul 8, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- Jun 10, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 27, 2020
- 7 min
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 —...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 20, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 13, 2020
- 6 min
So, What’s Next?
Stock photo of the beautiful but shitty kookaburra When I was in my early 20s I backpacked for 6 months in Australia. I could write...
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Emmy Pickering
- May 6, 2020
- 5 min
Only Way Out
Edie Plum will be ten months old this week, she’s now at that super physical stage where she wants to be everywhere and do everything....
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