The Five Pillars: #4 Destined For Happiness
“You have made us for yourself oh Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” --St. Augustine We...
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norafranche
- Feb 23
- 3 min
The Five Pillars: #3 Made For A Mission Uniquely Your Own
"Man cannot know himself except through a sincere gift of self." Gaudium Et Spes We were made to be of service for the other. We were...
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norafranche
- Feb 18
- 5 min
Pillar #1.5 You Matter Because You Exist
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." — St. Thomas Aquinas To believe...
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norafranche
- Feb 2
- 4 min
The Five Pillars: #2 The Power Of Agency
“Between stimulus and response there is a space.In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
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norafranche
- Jan 9
- 3 min
The Five Pillars: #1 The Right To Exist
"Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be." St. John...
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norafranche
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
Pain Points
I wrote about this topic in a little more detail on my personal blog, Grateful Blessed Mess, but I wanted to bring it up here as well...
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norafranche
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Grateful Blessed Mess Podcast
I’m starting a podcast, and to be completely honest, the closer I get to the actual launch date I have in mind, the more hesitant I start...
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norafranche
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
The Ways We Add To Our Pain
Cognitive Distortions We all do it. We struggle to accept life on life’s terms. We reject the reality of a situation and in doing so we...
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norafranche
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
A Purpose For The Pain
I’ve come to learn that there are three ways to suffer: to resist the pain to resign to the pain, or to embrace the pain. While thinking...
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norafranche
- Oct 15, 2022
- 3 min
Cognitive Dissonance
Have you ever experienced the pain of thinking you should be different than you are? Maybe you’ve used the terms: better, stronger,...
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norafranche
- Oct 1, 2022
- 4 min
Rational Beings - We Think About Our Thinking
We think about our thinking. Did you know that? Have you ever thought about that? This is the thing that sets us apart from the animals....
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norafranche
- Aug 24, 2022
- 3 min
It Might Be True…But Is It Helpful?
What about when reality is not what we want it to be? What about when the things of life really aren’t fair? When someone said something...
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norafranche
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
No Such Thing As Bad
What if I told you there was no such thing as a bad emotion? Do you believe it? Do you scrunch your face in disbelief, or start sifting...
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norafranche
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min
I Am No Victim
...Except to My Own Mentality I’ve had an epiphany. Have you ever noticed a certain trend in your own behavior that you know isn’t...
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norafranche
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
Ready For Joy Free 1 Week Mini Workshop
What to expect: 10am CDT 1 hour Facebook Live event Monday August 1st - Friday August 5th 3o minute lesson followed by discussion and Q&A...
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norafranche
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Hard Emotions Are Holy Ground
I have a theory. I believe we have several categories of emotions that I want to break down for you: Useful NOT Useful Hard Simply put...
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norafranche
- Jun 28, 2022
- 3 min
The Holy Pause
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
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norafranche
- Jun 20, 2022
- 4 min
What You Focus on Grows
I’m a physical therapist in acute care, the hospital setting. I literally specialize in helping people not fall down, and I will tell...
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norafranche
- Jun 13, 2022
- 3 min
I Choose All
The Freedom of Self-Mastery I’ve never been one to recall moments verbatim. I’ve always wondered how people can recount quotations from...
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norafranche
- Jun 12, 2022
- 4 min
That Emotion That You Feel? That's God Knocking At Your Door.
The Redemption of Our Emotions Why are heavy emotions so hard to handle? Why do we so often flee in the opposite direction? Why is there...
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