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Becoming a social media non-poster
I haven’t posted on social media for almost a year now - only looking, liking, sharing, occasionally commenting, NOT posting on either my...

Tammy Knorr
Jun 8, 20244 min read
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About Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF)
If you’ve read my posts “DIY Graduate Program” or “Letting grief show up however it wants to,” you’ve seen references to IRF, or Focusing...

Tammy Knorr
Oct 16, 20232 min read
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Another word for “de-escalating” relationships?
A nice thing about a blog centered on relating is that you have a pretty broad field to play in. But back to something that’s a bit more...

Tammy Knorr
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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Letting grief show up however it wants to
This post has resisted being written, or it’s felt like a slog through mud, but this is what I’m learning about grief at this point in my...

Tammy Knorr
Jun 26, 20232 min read
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DIY (Design It Yourself) graduate program
As you can see from the title, I reached a decision. But a bit more background on the contributing factors and the process, because I’m...

Tammy Knorr
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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Back to the academy?
A couple of months ago I decided to apply to grad school - yet again - in what was mostly an effort to find a more well trodden path to...

Tammy Knorr
Jun 20, 20233 min read
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On getting back to work
I’ve avoided this relationship coaching business of mine for several months now. At least I avoided (read had an allergic reaction to)...

Tammy Knorr
Feb 3, 20232 min read
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RA Takeaways Part 3
Love and respect instead of entitlement, revisited “Staying away from entitlement and demands is the only way to be sure that you are in...

Tammy Knorr
Feb 2, 20232 min read
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RA Takeaways Part 2
Love and respect instead of entitlement “Deciding to not base a relationship on a foundation of entitlement is about respecting others’...

Tammy Knorr
Jul 11, 20222 min read
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RA Takeaways Part 1
Love is abundant, and every relationship is unique "Relationship anarchy questions the idea that love is a limited resource that can only...

Tammy Knorr
May 22, 20223 min read
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Takeaways from the RA Manifesto
Andie Nordgren wrote The Short Instructional Manifesto for Relationship Anarchy (the RA Manifesto for short) in 2006, but I only first...

Tammy Knorr
May 22, 20221 min read
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Aspiring to Sloth Mom
I have a distaste for labels but also love a good metaphor, so here we go. Turns out there are lots of animal and machine metaphors for...

Tammy Knorr
Mar 30, 20222 min read
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A little win for positive sex ed
For the first time in my parenting career, I actually got some on-target, interesting, sex-positive info into my kid's hands (the...

Tammy Knorr
Mar 26, 20222 min read
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Follow-up to moving through pissed off
IG in its infinite wisdom suggested @thesecurerelationship this morning. As I scrolled through her posts, the really shiny one that stuck...

Tammy Knorr
Mar 19, 20221 min read
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Moving through “more pissed off than I wanna be”
Here’s something I played with yesterday. I found myself pissed off by a text exchange with a new acquaintance - someone I hadn’t even...

Tammy Knorr
Mar 19, 20221 min read
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