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The Messy Miracle of Looking for the Good

Trying to Moderate Alcohol Is the Kiss of Death to an Addict

Forty-Eight Days Sober and the Liquor Store Across the Street Keeps Taunting Me

About Me — Judy Walker.

I Stopped Drinking and Now Suppressed Emotions Are Rising Like Corpses to the Surface

If I Love My Partner and He’s a Great Human, Why Isn’t He Meeting All My Needs?

Elizabeth Gilbert Rocked the Stage Like the Kick-Ass Work of Art That She Is

At Some Point, We Stopped Seeing the Colors in Our Life — It’s Never Too Late to Learn How

I Thought I Was a Good Daughter When I Showed Up as an Emotional Sponge for My Mother

I Was a Kid When I Let Him Punish Me with a Belt on Her Behalf

Writing for Medium While Traveling Is About as Impossible as Staying Grounded in a Mob of People

How a Dirty Old Man Got His Hand Inside a Little Girl’s Panties

Are You Ready to Kneel at the Feet of Your Heartache?

Soulmates Are So Last Century. Look for a Life-Partner Instead.

If You Still Believe Time Heals All Wounds, You’ve Been Sold a Bill of Goods

I Refused to Feel the Trauma of Displacement for 43 Years

For the Love of God, Stop Chasing Happiness and Do This Instead

I’ve Loathed and Ignored Her and Despite It All, She Remains as Loyal as a Dog

A Broken Heart Hurts at Any Age. Tips to Help Your Child Heal After a Breakup

Can Writing on Medium Make a Real Writer Out of You?

The Day I Realized I Don’t Have to Do Anything for Anyone Was the Day I Freed Myself From Martyrdom

Are You Ready to Release Trapped Fear From Your Body?

Even After Everything Else Is Gone, Hope Will Float

Are You Ready to Fire Your Inner Bully and Finally Be Your Own Best Friend?

A Letter to My 10-Year-Old Self

Are You Ready to Strut Into 2023 Like the Trusting Maniac That You Are?

Four Statements That Dissolve the Painful Ties to Your Past

Before You Make That Hurtful Comment, Ask Yourself These Three Questions

How to Transform the Painful Emotions That Are Plugged Into Core Beliefs

This Daily Habit Will Boost Your Mood and Improve Your Health: It’s something you were born to do

How to Become an Optimist: It’s only a choice away

Transition Is a B*tch and the One Thing That Will Grow You Most: Change is kicking my ass and I love it!

How Feeling Anger Deep in My Bones Is Teaching Me to Have My Own Back: Anger is my superpower and I am damn grateful for it.

See the Other as They Truly Are and Know True Love

Did Your Mother Call You, Volodya, or Were You Always Putin? If I could ask you anything: An open letter to Vladimir Putin

Reading Articles on How to Increase Your Earnings on Medium Is Like Buying Magic Potion From a Snake-Oil Salesman: I fell for a Medium swindler and so have you

This Human’s Guide to Surviving the Insanity Consuming the World Today: When there is nothing left to do, keep feeling

The Day I Realized Time Is My Servant and Not My Master Is the Day I Began Living

I Met My First Lover in a Basement Cafeteria and What Ensued Was a Bold and Robust Affair

When I Choose Gratitude Over Fear, Am I Giving Reality The Finger? Optimism is not a dirty word.

The Heart Is Not Logical: When saying no is hard to do

When Your Kid’s Favorite Stuffie Gets Abducted by Aliens: A parents’ biggest nightmare

When Was the Last Time You Chatted Up a Stranger? I wish I had asked his name.

Your Relationship is a Disaster (Again): These might be the reasons why.

Your Writing is Still Remarkably Real: Even though it didn’t go viral.

The Other Side of Selfishness: Make it work for you.

So You Think You Are a Writer? How I discovered my reasons for writing and you can too.

Stop Chasing Gratitude: Use your senses instead.

How I Am Learning to Love Unconditionally: One pair of sweatpants at a time.

About Me — Judy Walker A Writing Astronaut.

My Writing is Still Remarkably Real: And so is yours, even though we didn’t Win the Remarkably Real Challenge.

Three Years in the Life of a Teenaged Immigrant: Day 1095.

Why Crying it Out is the Best Medicine: The Power of Re-parenting Ourselves.

Love is a Fire that Burns Unseen: Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman Scorned.

I See Us Smiling Back: You were in there all along. I just forgot to listen.

The Hidden Power of Projecting: 7 Steps for using our Projections to Heal.

Love Can Find You Anywhere, Even in the Bathtub: Musings of a teenaged lover.

The One: How the Most Painful Relationship of my Life led me to the One that Stuck.

Is TikTok’s Trend of Women Comparing Themselves to Cars turning us into Objects?

If we Choose Monogamy, are we Missing Out?

7 Questions to Set yourself Free from Inauthenticity and Negative Self-Talk.

My Heart may be Bruised but you did not Break Me.

8 Signs you are in Denial of your Emotional Pain in a Relationship.

How Childhood Trauma Hands us Blueprints for our Relationships.

When it’s Time to Walk Away from a Relationship so we can Heal Ourselves.

A Codependent’s Path to Healing: Reprogramming Beliefs that have been Running a Lifetime.

I Disagree with the Dalai Lama’s Viral Post on Anger.

Perfectionism & Codependency: How Naming our Demons Strengthens our Recovery.

How the Thorns in our Relationships can be our Greatest Gifts.

A Codependent's Road to Recovery: Learning to Take Care of our Needs.

How Befriending my Triggers is Leading me to Love.

Facebook ChallengeAccepted #24hrs: WTAF?

Dear Doubt, it's Time for you to Go Now.

How to Break Down Emotional Scar Tissue & Heal our Childhood Wounds.

How the 12-Steps and Rumi are Teaching me that Rage can be a Good Thing.

5 Margaret Atwood Quotes that will Leave you Thinking Late into the Night.

How Loving Sadness Waters the Roots of Happiness