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Kemia Sarraf
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(We're Published by ICF) Trauma-Responsive Coaching: The Advanced Skills Needed to Navigate What’s Next
Coaches increasingly find themselves holding space for the emotional toll that unrelenting toxic stress has taken on their clients....
Kemia Sarraf
4 min
Grateful to Remain Foolish ...
May we be blessed with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our...
Kemia Sarraf
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How we show up
We have a culture that says, “press on, despite.” Press on despite overwhelm Press on despite fear Press on despite pain Press on despite...
Kemia Sarraf
6 min
Coding Chickens & Trauma-Mitigation
Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy, commiserating missive composed for today. I wrote extensively about the impact of chronic toxic stress,...
Kemia Sarraf
2 min
The Light Comes...
Dear Everyone: I know it's been a minute, and I know what y'all were thinking: Now why don't she write? (don't know the reference? You're...
Kemia Sarraf
2 min
A reminder, and an opportunity
Dear Everyone: This edition of Cereal With Hand-Poured Milk (HPM) will be short and pointed. And although there exists the temptation to...
Kemia Sarraf
3 min
Ducks, Memes, and Hope In Broken Things™
Dear Everyone: I recently participated in a lively podcast where the host and I wandered through a range of ideas around wellness,...
Kemia Sarraf
4 min
The Month of Halloween
That is the way Fear serves us: it always sides with the things we are afraid of The Princess And The Goblin Dear Everyone: October...
Kemia Sarraf
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Grandad's Wisdom, Extra Sleep, And A Little Chocolate On The Side...
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our...
Kemia Sarraf
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Protect Your Bandwidth
Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems...
Kemia Sarraf
4 min
Farm Lessons: Coding Chickens & Micro-Mitigation Moments
Dear Everyone: Farm life carries a unique set of challenges and loves to remind The Husband and I that we, in fact, know almost nothing...
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3 min
The Answer is Us
Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems...
Kemia Sarraf
3 min
Wild Places Make You Earn It...
Dear Everyone: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair. The number of times I’ve recited this fundamental truth can’t be quantified. It’s a...
Kemia Sarraf
2 min
We're All Cracked...
Dear Everyone: A recent influx of new subscribers and site members served as a reminder that it's past time to reintroduce myself and our...
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2 min
Into the Wilderness I go...
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from deep in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. ...
