Author: Dana Young
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Learning to release fear and worry
The last week or so has been pretty stressful. I’m juggling two different businesses – a very new social media/digital strategy agency and a holistic wellness practice – as well as the usual demands of motherhood and household concerns. I embarked on entrepeneurship in August, after being laid off from my corporate job of 13…
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Pain and gain, or how I learned to love exercise
Last April, I convinced my husband it would be a good idea for us to join an exercise program and spend quality time together. I don’t like exercising, especially doing reps on machines in a gym, but I had a recurring upper back/shoulder injury that was taking a long time to respond to treatment, which…
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Everybody up on the poop deck!
Spend enough time around toddlers and old people and it doesn’t take long before you realize that bodily functions is a favorite conversation topic. With toddlers, I think it’s because it’s something they’re learning to master, whereas with old people, their ability to control it is slipping away. Either way, someone’s just getting out of…
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Which writers have changed your life?
My husband gave me a Kindle for Christmas, and recently I gave some thought as to what kind of books I’d want to read on the device. I realized there were certain types of books – and writers – I would still want to read in print form, because it was easier for me to…
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The good old (birth)days
My mom and I are already planning her annual trip from NYC to Atlanta for my daughter’s birthday in April. In her email to me today, she asked what we were thinking of doing for A’s birthday and then observed, “It seems that these days you don’t just go to somebody’s house where their Mom…
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Atlanta? Rude? Got a problem with that?
Making the rounds in the local news today is a recent story run in Travel + Leisure ranking America’s rudest cities. It turns out that the Southeast’s largest city is losing some of its trademark genteel. Atlanta ranked #11 in the poll, just shy of the top ten. At the top of the list? Los…
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I don’t have all the answers
I sure wish I did, though. Over the years, I’ve developed a reputation for being, as my friend Kim said recently, “a good advice giverer.” (I’m making that my official title, by the way.) Maybe it’s all those tidbits of wisdom gleaned from years of psychotherapy and self-help books. Maybe it’s my habit of squirreling away…
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So, I’ve got this blog…
It seems hard to believe I’d want to publish another blog, since I already actively manage two websites and am actively working as a social media consultant. The thing is, I felt the need to get a bit more personal and colloquial with my writing. One day I might want to write about the challenges of…
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