Category: coping

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Fertility, Infertility, Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss. Let’s normalize the conversation.

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/lenigian/episodes/Life-with-Leni–Episode-6–Part-1–Part-2-Fertility–Infertility–MiscarriagePregnancy-Loss-elicqf Part 1: Fertility/Infertility They don’t talk about it often enough. The subjects of fertility and infertility. No one tells you how taxing the process of becoming and being pregnant naturally are, and they, most certainly, don’t tell you how ten times more taxing it is going through fertility treatments.  It’s been almost two […]

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Just Be Kind

Sometimes, the easiest thing for me to do is write. Not lately. As much as I am open in describing my efforts, my struggles, my 33 year young wisdom, I am also reluctant because there are so many people who will misread, misinterpret, and use my vulnerabilities against me. It is what it is. I’ve been […]

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As the flashbacks flow, so do the words.

stained. Burning my skin with the touch of your hand over my shirt I feel it going through branding your hand print on my back and it hurts. It hurts and I just cant stand it. Nausea takes over and I breathe myself in, in through nose, out through mouth- a couple seconds and it […]

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a letter to me- love, me.

Dear Eleni, Well, look at us. Look at how we’ve turned out. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Remember the times we didn’t think we’d be ok? I mean, there are so many reasons why we didn’t think we’d be ok, but remember how we promised ourselves that we would never let anyone stop […]

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Be unafraid to Be kind.

So many of my clients, mostly the adolescents, feel they are misunderstood. More so because they are teens and teenagers are just weird as is- who likes a teenager? Ha. But the truth of the matter is, many of us are misunderstood. We are misunderstood because we have been taught that if we are not […]