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March 2026

🪷Mind-fog Message
soothing my anxiety when my mind feels foggy
 • Anna Eplin
☔️Why I will not railroad over my kids' consent and capacity
Here is a major reality of parenting: the consent of our strong-willed dependent creatures (whether children or, in the case of my friend, goats) is a…
 • Anna Eplin
🪷Forward, Enlightenment Knight
Forward, enlightenment knight, to another day pursuing the light of healing and living with mindful sight, honest, brave, and kind. Yours not to…
 • Anna Eplin
🌊 Understanding the Other Side
It turns out we are not so different, after all
 • Anna Eplin
🪷The Voice in Your Mind
If the voice in your mind is strict and unkind, that's not a voice of wisdom. It's a scared, hurt child alone in the wild who needs help and compassion.
 • Anna Eplin
🪷To Build a Bridge
People who hold an opposite view politically from yours aren't evil, of course.
 • Anna Eplin
🪷 You don't scold a daffodil
You don’t scold a daffodil for not blooming on command. It will open when it's ready: this you understand-- and yet you scold a child for not jumping to…
 • Anna Eplin
🪷 You're Doing Great
You feel like a mess and a screw-up, I know, but listen: what you are is real. Real people have complex feelings and needs, and real life is a messy…
 • Anna Eplin
🌊 On Feeding the Mind
+ Sunday Springs
 • Anna Eplin
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