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When Life Quietly Becomes Smaller
The decisions we make under pressure can shape far more than the circumstances we're trying to manage. You can spend years building a successful career, establishing a business, or creating a life you're proud of, only to discover that the responsibilities required to sustain it are beginning to crowd out the very things you worked so hard to enjoy. Perhaps your work is going exceptionally well, but conversations with your partner have become largely transactional. An aging p
Brooke Galster-Boston
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When You Start Grieving a Divorce You Don't Regret
Confident and Independent Professional Crossing the Street Sometimes the grief that follows divorce doesn't appear until years after the marriage has ended. I had a client who at the time of their divorced described feeling relieved. It had been a difficult decision, but a considered one. Both partners believed ending the marriage was ultimately healthier for them and for their children. Life moved forward. The children were doing well, and their former spouse seemed to be fl
Brooke Galster-Boston
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The Life We Build Around Caring for a Pet.
A Very Small Dog, A Very Large Life My parents recently lost their dog, Winnie. She weighed just under four pounds. When she first came into rescue, she was so fragile that the organization didn't put her on its website for adoption. They weren't convinced she would survive. She did. My mother was enormously proud of winnie and what she called her "moxie." Winnie was tiny but remarkably determined, and over the years she became such a fixture in my parent's lives that it was
Brooke Galster-Boston
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