5 Things I wish I knew before I became a Mother
Happy Mother's day! And please forgive me for the only catchy title I could come up with for this blog post. Blame it on exhaustion or...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Apr 22
- 4 min
The Language of Unchaining
One of my coaching clients presented a difficult topic for us to work on in our last session. Her son was awaiting what could have been a...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Apr 16
- 4 min
Unchaining Spotlight : Feven and Tim
Serendipity would plan it, we moved two houses down from another young blended family back in tail end of 2020. Our...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Apr 3
- 5 min
A Waste of Life?
We're all afraid of something. Snakes anyone? How about bunji jumping? As a person who has skydived before and would do it a second time...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Mar 29
- 4 min
Re-Parenting Ourselves
My preteen daughter handed me her phone so I can speak to her mum and grandma this morning. The three of us women have a blast every time...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Mar 18
- 4 min
Healing Women Heal Women
Spring's full bloom is a guessing game where we live.The sun is teasing us one day while actual snow, yes snow, flirts with us like an...
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Tiemert
- Mar 3
- 3 min
Getting You Back Up
Hello unchainer human being! Have you been falling ok lately? If you don't fall often enough, I don't know what you are doing reading...
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Tiemert
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Trusting The Flames
Believe it or not, I thought this would be terrifying. Believe it or not. It's not. The corners of my lips are slightly curved upwards in...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Feb 18, 2022
- 11 min
15 Inspirational Life Lessons From the Movie Encanto
Like many parents with toddlers, we are watching Disney's hit movie Encanto for the 372nd time. Cuddled on the couch with my little...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Getting in the Habits
A habitual procrastinator, a habitual media consumer, a habitual impulse shopper, a habitual people pleaser, a habitual smoker. Over the...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Loving Through Conflict
It was an all too familiar pit in the stomach kind of feeling. One of those you get after engaging in a conflict with someone you love....
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Why Values?
We can all agree that life is a journey. It's twists and turns unpredictable, it's length unknown, no universally proven way to navigate...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Putting YOU First : The Case For Selfishness
Where were we? So many ways I wanted to begin this blog post. So many lessons earned though internal and external struggles, many...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Your Worth and Power as a Woman and How to Reclaim It
May all my ladies say "power" No, not THAT kind of power that we confuse true power with. Not the kind the patriarchy modeled to us, one...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
Majesty in Waiting : Wisdom of The 'Dead' Tree
We moved into our new home back in December 2020. One of the things we loved about this house was the backyard garden the previous owner...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Jan 2, 2021
- 3 min
2020 : A Chaotic Year of Triumphs
New Year day 2021. I sit looking back at 2020 very fondly. The kind of fondness a year arguably sent from hell does not seem to be...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 30, 2020
- 5 min
Woman in The Arena
Today's morning journal entry had something unusual about it. It was demanding to show up as a blog instead. So I am typing this on my...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 11, 2020
- 3 min
Permission to BE : A Mother's Prayer
On a rather cloudy October morning, I sat overlooking the Atlantic ocean. I am overcome with presence. I am on a getaway to celebrate my...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Do You Belong? An Enlightening Chat With Sebene Selassie
"At the age of thirty-four, while most of my girlfriends hurriedly made babies before their fertility windows closed, I received a...
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Tiemert
- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
Accepting The Unwanted
A man bought a new house and decided that he was going to have a very beautiful lawn. He worked on it every week, doing everything the...
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