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Amanda Jayne O'Hare
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Age of Awareness

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Riding The Waves Of Grief

When the weight of loss hits you like a wave, can you lean in? — Grief, like the sea, has an element and feel of being wildly unpredictable. I think I love surfing, in part, from how I’ve formed a metaphor around it and both the power and gentleness of living in the shadow of loss. When surfing, you can be riding a wave, then…

Grief

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Riding The Waves Of Grief
Riding The Waves Of Grief
Grief

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ILLUMINATION

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I Remember Feeling Like Focussing On Trauma Would Be A Forever Thing

Learning to sit with the deepest emotions in trust has become my anchor — I have a lot of conversations around trauma and the nature of healing. It’s something I’ve been actively doing since I was 19, maybe even earlier if I was to include the somatic healing I was unknowingly doing in running and being in the woods. However, the last 6 years…

Trauma

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I Remember Feeling Like Focussing On Trauma Would Be A Forever Thing
I Remember Feeling Like Focussing On Trauma Would Be A Forever Thing
Trauma

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ILLUMINATION

·6 days ago

My Relationship To Fitness and Listening To My Intuition Saved My Life

In a world where we’re taught to ignore our bodies' cues and manipulate them into a certain shape, learning to reconnect to my body and trust myself saved me — Back in 2018, out of desperation I caved and took the Setraline. I say caved because I didn’t want to and on good authority, I knew it wasn’t going to work for me. I lasted a few weeks. Doctors had already admitted to me that antidepressants wouldn’t do anything for…

Trauma

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My Relationship To Fitness and Listening To My Intuition Saved My Life
My Relationship To Fitness and Listening To My Intuition Saved My Life
Trauma

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ILLUMINATION

·Nov 16

On Being Present: Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing. Anxiety? Not So Much.

Why it’s so powerful to live for every part of your journey — Over here, it’s been a wild week of major downloads. Lessons I’ve been working through for years now have landed with me this week. As awesome as that is, I’m also SO TIRED from it. It’s like I’ve been forced into giving myself the space to allow these insights to…

Trauma Recovery

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On Being Present: Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing. Anxiety? Not So Much.
On Being Present: Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing. Anxiety? Not So Much.
Trauma Recovery

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ILLUMINATION

·Nov 12

Reprogramming Money Mindset With Affirmations Gets To Be Fun

Music is the magic sauce to get those affirmations moving — Before we get started, the playlists I’ve created are mainly geared towards women, it’s just the way it’s landed, but not all of them are and it’s well worth dipping in to take what you need and leave the rest. One brilliant, catchy track will be enough to make a…

Money

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Reprogramming Money Mindset With Affirmations Gets To Be Fun
Reprogramming Money Mindset With Affirmations Gets To Be Fun
Money

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ILLUMINATION

·Nov 1

Are You Demotivated? Or Are You Exhausted?

Breaking the habits of a lifetime can take a hot minute, I hope you can be kind to yourself — Like many others who do client-based work, it’s often when I’m working with others I recognise the lessons I need to be heeding a little more closely myself. I guess this makes this a bit of a note to self. I am feeling exhausted right now. It’s taking a hot…

Personal Growth

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Are You Demotivated? Or Are You Exhausted?
Are You Demotivated? Or Are You Exhausted?
Personal Growth

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Human Parts

·Oct 30

Deep In Autistic Grief: I Really F***ing Miss My Mum

The Only Way I Can Describe It Is I Feel Like An Island — When I found out I was autistic, after my daughter's own diagnosis, everything made sense. The part that made the most sense was finding it so, so hard to understand how to people. …

Grief

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Deep In Autistic Grief: I Really F***ing Miss My Mum
Deep In Autistic Grief: I Really F***ing Miss My Mum
Grief

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The Startup

·Oct 30

How To Write Powerful Personal Essays Without Making Yourself Feel Unsafe

If you want to use your personal story in your business without it affecting your mental health, learn to use space and editing to help you — This post has Amazon Affiliate links where I share the books I found valuable in my own healing journey, all views and book recommendations are my own. I started writing and blogging a very long time ago, something not exactly evident on Medium with my huge gap in attendance. Part…

Writing

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How To Write Powerful Personal Essays Without Making Yourself Feel Unsafe
How To Write Powerful Personal Essays Without Making Yourself Feel Unsafe
Writing

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ILLUMINATION

·Oct 26

The Most Powerful Books I’ve Read On Trauma This Year

I’m a big fan of the professionals coming out of traditional structures and sharing their valuable knowledge and experience — This post has Amazon Affiliate links where I share the books I found valuable in my own healing journey, all views and book recommendations are my own. There’s little I love more than sharing books that have changed my life. I’m forever waxing lyrical about people who put into words…

Psychology

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The Most Powerful Books I’ve Read On Trauma This Year
The Most Powerful Books I’ve Read On Trauma This Year
Psychology

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Practice in Public

·Oct 25

Please, Writers, Move Rooms. Go Where You Are Appreciated

If social media is killing your creativity — move. Please don’t stop creating. — I returned to Medium after a long break and shared a piece of writing on my thoughts and experiences with trauma healing. It made me over $100 in a week since it had been published and what’s more — I had around 40 very touching responses to my writing which…

Self

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Please, Writers, Move Rooms. Go Where You Are Appreciated
Please, Writers, Move Rooms. Go Where You Are Appreciated
Self

6 min read

Amanda Jayne O'Hare

Amanda Jayne O'Hare

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