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I help midlife and older women, widowed women through grief and other tough life changes . I help them turn pain and suffering into peace, new purpose and success... Life reinvention, and pizazz aging are my specialty areas. I can also work with men.

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(By Iris J.  Arenson-Fuller)  For my long-gone brother in his birthday month of February #Poetry #Nostalgia #Family 

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My new memoir poetry collection available now on Amazon.

Will you help me by sharing this info with people you know please. Thanks if you will.

https://www.amazon.com/Blooming-Beyond-Brooklyn-Sorrows-Lessons/dp/0692036148

#Grief #Healing #Family #LifeLessons #Aging #Nostalgia

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The Grief That Doesn’t Wait For Death Blog Post

http://wp.me/p6mI5J-K2j

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Celebrating the Creativity of Women

http://www.visionpoweredcoaching.com/2016/03/06/celebrating-the-creativity-of-women/

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Some Comments on Stages of Life

Coach Iris helps people through loss, life changes and tough life stages. Here, she makes comments on an article describing the decades of life.

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CONTEST-MORE DETAILS FOUND AT: PLEASE do share this on your own page in case you know someone who would like to enter. Thank you!

http://www.visionpoweredcoaching.com/new-awesome/

Do you want to submit an entry? Do you know someone who would like to? Please go to my site to find out more. Contest begins on Friday, October 2, 2015, and last date for submission of entries is Friday, October 30, 2015, at midnight EDT. Here’s What You Do Submit an essay of one or two pages about the following: What’s The Best Thing I’ve Learned From the Worst Thing I’ve Gone Through In My Life?

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It's Yom Kippur, So How Do You Measure Up?

It’s Yom Kippur, So How Do You Measure Up?

   It’s Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, so how do you measure up? You don’t have to be Jewish to think about that!

As some of you know, I fall short, or perhaps fall in a different place on the chart that measures how observant I am in my own religion (depending on your opinion).

Still, I do pay attention to many of the important concepts and lessons behind the routines, rules and…

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A Hole In Your Life

A Hole In Your Life

One would think that a gaping hole in your life would be something easy to spot, and even easy enough to fill. That’s the trouble, though. The hole (or lack of something) often starts out small, but when you refuse to acknowledge it, to accept that it’s there, and to figure out what to do about it, it starts to grow. If you are somewhat aware of it, you may even try to plug it up with whatever…

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Feeling Out Possible New Group Offering For Widowers

Feeling Out Possible New Group Offering For Widowers

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Are You Faking Your Way Through Life (BLORFTING) ?

Are You Faking Your Way Through Life (BLORFTING) ?

“I was a little excited, but mostly blorft.– “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.” ― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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“Blorft” Had…

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Who Is Your Starfish?: Making a Difference

Who Is Your Starfish?: Making a Difference

This piece is dedicated to the late Caren Peet, who loved and collected starfish, and items depicting starfish, and who made a true difference in the lives of a huge number of people. She helped children who needed families, families who wanted kids, the homeless, the hurt, the disenfranchised. I had the privilege of knowing her as a colleague, and later, as a client. She is missed by many, but…

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Gemma of My Imagination

Gemma of My Imagination

Gemma of My Imagination -Iris J, Arenson-Fuller   © all rights reserved

There are dull, field mouse colored days when the sun is afraid to come out, wisely sensing that our mood is not receptive to warmth. We remain wrapped in new sheets of blue fleece thoughts melting into puddles of the past, unable to rouse ourselves, wading more deeply into speculation as the morning begins to gallop…

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HUNGER- A POEM BY IRIS J. ARENSON-FULLER

HUNGER- A POEM BY IRIS J. ARENSON-FULLER

 By Jon Sullivan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

We all hunger for different things in different ways the essence of it hard to explain by one creature to another

It can be a gnawing rodent, incisors tearing into vulnerable flesh or a soft longing that sits in hidden folds a quiet, wistful yearning not yet recognized as the savage brute it will grow into if left unnoticed and unnourished

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Listen Up..Your Destiny's Over There!

Listen and Hear Your Destiny

Do you have question about your destiny? Do you wonder what your purpose is, what your focus should be, or whether you are going in too many seemingly disparate directions, at least according to others?  Then please look around you.  Listen carefully. Examine your world and what’s going on in it. Who are the people who keep presenting themselves to you? Who are the people and situations you seek…

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Momento Vivere (Remember to Live)

Remember to live!  Momento vivere!   This one seems like a no-brainer, but is it?

Tomorrow is my birthday and since I am “old”, I want to celebrate my birthday by giving you the gift of a bit of advice. I am hoping that with the title of “old”,  I have acquired a pinch of wisdom.  I know my advice is unsolicited, but I do hope you will listen anyway, now that I am a bona fide “old person”, or at…

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A Message While You Sleep: New Poem For Strong Survivors -by Iris J. Arenson-Fuller

A Message While You Sleep: New Poem For Strong Survivors -by Iris J. Arenson-Fuller

Have you ever felt your legs were in stirrups

waiting endlessly for new beginnings

feeling every sharp contraction life dished out

as your body was squeezed and pulled

in and out of gummy shapes?

Is this a dream?

Is this just a projection of wild colors

onto the inside of your eyelids,

as you sit in the  cinema of your own brain

wishing for a bucket of popcorn to distract you?

Breathe, you tell…

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Widow Thinks of Lorca and His Crying Lizards

Widow Thinks of Lorca and His Crying Lizards

By Iris J. Arenson-Fuller

Damn lizards, there they go again, the he and she, dry scaly skin with surprise threads of iridescence teasing light, playing with it, stretched out on their bellies,, they invite the sun visiting their backs, to a long afternoon siesta.

If lizards imbibed, I think they might yawn, toss back one glass of dusky wine after…

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