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Discover the power of self-compassion, by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Meditative Story

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The Seventh Summit of Gay Women on Everest

This is my seventh summit, and I'm officially having come the first of the gay women to have reach this monster. The path to the summit is wide open. A brass pin marks the top like a giant thumbtack hammer into ice. When Laurie jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, I thought it was an end, but really it was a beginning. Against heaven and earth, I've managed to get here. My grief spills into the snow. But ever as I experience an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment, with the nally I'm spent,. I look back at the mountain and think, you can't conquer this. I need a bath.

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