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Melissa Gijsbers
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Good enough?
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Good enough?One thing I’ve been trying to work on is seeing that I am good enough. Not only that, I’m all kinds of amazing. I’ve been reflecting on this lately, wondering where the messages that I’m somehow not good enough come from. Recently, it hit me… At school, my ‘worth’ was based on my grades. No…
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There are no original ideas
Categories: Romantic MoviesContinue Reading: There are no original ideasMy thoughts on life lessons from romance movies had popular appeal, so here goes nothing… One life lesson I’ve learned from romance movies is that there are no original ideas. In these movies, they all follow pretty much the same formula. Couple meet, fall in love, break up, get back together again, then happily every.…
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AuDHD and Faith…
Categories: FaithContinue Reading: AuDHD and Faith…Earlier this month, I did a post about how I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I have been mulling a lot about my faith and what it looks like through an AuDHD lens (along with most of my life pre-diagnosis). I have been reading some articles online and quite unimpressed by what I’ve read so…
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Romantic Movies…
Categories: Romantic MoviesContinue Reading: Romantic Movies…If I’m going to do some blog posts about life lessons from romantic movies, I figured I should keep a list of ones I’ve watched. This post will be added to as I watch more movies as well as go back to find titles. This will simply be a list, along with the platform I…
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Life Lessons from Romance Movies
Categories: Romantic MoviesContinue Reading: Life Lessons from Romance MoviesI quite enjoy watching those cheesy romantic movies. You know the ones, mostly prevalent around Christmas time. Where a big town woman/man goes home for Christmas and discovers their true love. Yeah, those ones. I had a really challenging week last week, resulting in a complete shutdown, and I spent the weekend, and a lot…
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NICE Goals
Categories: BusinessContinue Reading: NICE GoalsI have always struggled with goal setting. Anything I’ve done that encourages me to set goals make them feel like they are either way too big an unobtainable, or something that is unrealistic. I struggle with things like SMART goals due to time blindness, but also because so much to do with them, and any…
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Business reflections…
Categories: BusinessContinue Reading: Business reflections…Every now and then, I look back on my life and wonder how it took so long to realise I’m AuDHD… Back in 2002, I started a business. It was the first mums in business network in Australia. I started it because I couldn’t find support to start a business so I could be home…
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Holiday at home…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Holiday at home…One of my favourite holidays growing up was a holiday at home. My parents made a big deal to everyone about how we were going away, I think it was for a week. One evening, we were all packed into the car and drove around. I think we stopped at McDonald’s for dinner, which was…
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Secondhand televisions…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Secondhand televisions…I realised yesterday that I have never owned a new television in my life! At least, not since I moved out of home when I was 18. When I first moved out, I lived in share houses for a couple of years and the television was owned by my housemates. When I got married, our…
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I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…
Categories: FaithContinue Reading: I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…In a group I’m in, someone posted a link to an article ‘How should a Christian view ADD and ADHD?’ I grew up Christian. My parents were missionaries. I’ve been a member of churches of various denominations my whole life, apart from the last few year. Here’s my take on being AuDHD and a Christian.…