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Holly Ostara is an author, writing coach, project manager, and the founder of www.BooksAndAlchemy.com, where her goal is to teach 100,000 daring, ambitious people how to create sustainable and purposeful relationships with their writing so they can finally finish the book of their dreams. Sign up for her free email course, 7 Days to Author Alchemy, to reclaim your journey towards finishing your dream book with personalized writing rituals.

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Don’t Try to Get Over Your Fear; Go Through It Instead

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ~Frank Herbert, The Bene Gesserit “Litany Against Fear,” from the novel Dune

When I was very small, my grandmother would watch me while my parents were at work. Nana often wanted a break, and her house held very …

4 Relationship Traps to Avoid & Other Ways to Keep Your Love Strong

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“Love does not obey our expectations; it obeys our intentions.” ~Lloyd Strom

When I started dating, I did a terrible job of it.

I fell in love at the turn of a unique smile and fell out of it with the first sign of a stubborn bad habit. Despite that, I was a serial monogamist. I didn’t know how to develop the mental fortitude one needed to end things when they were ready to be ended, so I let them crawl on.

Teenage emotions are hard. Adult ones are hard, too.

Three years, four years, three and a half …