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Podcast: Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness
Episode: Giving Up the Need to Buffer - Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites Podcast
Description: A friend said to me recently that for all her adult life, she’s been the buffer between people she loves and the things or people that upset them.
That statement made Mom spring immediately to mind – she was often the buffer, too. She kept her children from being too rowdy when her husband had a migraine or was tired and cranky at the end of his workday. She kept her two sons from picking at each other. She kept her mom from making my brothers and me crazy when she visited, and she kept up correspondence when...