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January 4, 2013 Gary Yorke

The Promises We Break
Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? How many promises have you easily and guiltlessly broken to yourself? How many negligible little social media list challenges have you participated in and failed to complete (a song a day, a picture a day, a blog a day)?
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November 20, 2012 Gary Yorke

Thanks for the Unicorns
If I breathe, if I shift, if I scratch an itch, this tender, tenuous butterfly of familial intimacy will start and flutter away, and who knows when it will light once more.
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October 8, 2012 Gary Yorke

Married with autism
Even though my daughter with autism is already late into her teens I have only been "married with autism" for seven years. I was a single parent for the first half of her life and have been navigating the world...
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September 19, 2011 Gary Yorke

The Unspoken Feeling – Grief – And Its Impact On Teens
In general, adolescents do not know when they are experiencing grief. Nor do they have the innate skills to handle grief. Through my experience working with teens, I've found that many families do not discuss loss or grief; processing grief...
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The Promises We Break