Becky Ebert

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Don’t Let Your Feelings Overstay Their Welcome – TWLOHA

Oct 28, 2024 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

Flow like water. Your emotions will flow like water, crash like waves, and ebb like the tide. The things you feel are expressions of moments. Joyous moments, challenging moments, heartbreaking moments—moments of all kinds. Feeling your emotions is healthy, and crucial even if you want to heal. Maybe you’ve heard the phrase: “You have to feel to heal” from your counselor or a wise friend before. But a big part of it, of healing and knowing peace, is not letting the feelings overstay their welcome.
Wired for Connection – TWLOHA

Aug 26, 2024 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

You were wired for connection—more specifically: authentic connection. You are meant to love and be loved. To give compassion, comfort, and acceptance, and to receive all of it as well. But with that connection, can come attachment and vulnerability. Two things that for many of us stir up fear. We’re afraid to connect in genuine ways for that means showing up as we are and maybe forming a bond that we’re afraid to lose or see end.
Grief Is Evidence of Love – TWLOHA

Aug 19, 2024 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

Grief comes to us in waves. It is a heartache that many, if not most, experience. It can blossom from the closing of a chapter, the realization that a dream may never come to fruition, or the loss of someone or something—even a belief—that we held dear. The grief itself can materialize inside us as anger, despair, and a yearning for whatever has happened or is happening to reverse and reroute. Maybe it’s a breakup. The dissolution of a friendship. The ending of one chapter and the start of another.
Expressing + Processing Emotions Through Movement – TWLOHA

Apr 8, 2024 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

Writing this, I am a bit sore and a heck of a lot tired. I probably need to drink some water and get better (read: more) sleep tonight. One could argue I drink too much coffee and stay up later than I should consuming art within the hours found just before the clock strikes midnight. It’s a balance though, between things that feel good and things that bring good.
Connection as Prevention – TWLOHA

Sep 4, 2023 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

I was terrified. Terrified to speak it out loud. Terrified to type it out as a text message and press send. Terrified to have another person know what I was thinking, what my brain was saying and telling me. “You should swerve off this bridge.”“It would be so easy to crash this car.”If you read what I wrote last year, you know I told someone—a friend. It could have gone way differently, I’m sure, if I hadn’t told said friend about my brain’s musings.
Discovering, Defining, and Nurturing Glimmers – TWLOHA

Aug 14, 2023 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

I took a walk with my dog the other day. This isn’t an uncommon occurrence. We take a stroll around the neighborhood, a park, or a muddy trail nearly every day—except for Sundays. Sundays are for rest usually. The difference with this particular walk, however, was that I wasn’t in a rush. Bucky, my dog, is never in a rush. He gives his full attention to whatever patch of grass he’s smelling, the flock of birds daring to fly overhead, or the stranger he’s hoping might say hello and ask to pet him.
Loneliness Epidemic: People Need Other People—Especially Offline – TWLOHA

May 15, 2023 | twloha.com | Becky Ebert |Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla |Aaron Baccash |Aaron Moore

We live in an exceptional time when it comes to connection. Talking to or working with someone who lives halfway across the world is made easy by our phones and laptops. We can reach out to another person in seconds by sending a text, commenting on a post, or writing an email. But even with this rather instant connection, many people are feeling lonely. It was reported this month that nearly half of US adults are experiencing loneliness, and that number is even higher for teenagers and young adults.