title: Gentle Reminders: Messages Of Encouragement For Clarity, Healing, And Breakthrough
author: Erika L. Adams
description: Erika L. Adams is a licensed minister, teacher, encourager, mentor, and writer with over 20 years of multifaceted leadership service. She is deeply passionate about co-creating with women and global leaders who need support on their path of self-discovery and life fulfillment. Erika is the founder of The Traveling Encourager, LLC, a personal development company. She is a proud California native who enjoys artistic self-expression, quality time in nature, intercultural literacy, and the transformative education of world travel.
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  KRIS CALVIN
  
  
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  # ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  HAVING FALLEN ASLEEP at night and awakened in the morning these past weeks
  thinking of little else than what I wanted to say here, in the end I concluded
  I can’t do typical acknowledgments. I don’t mean exactly that, since no
  heartfelt acknowledgment is “typical”; each is important and unique. What I
  mean is I have to do this some other way. I’ll do my best to make a long story
  short.
  
  
  I did not feel safe in my home as a child. I’m not alone in that, but the many
  of us who share a challenging beginning have found different ways to live with
  it that range from healthy to dysfunctional, often some combination of the
  two. For me, when someone is kind to me now, caring or supportive, I don’t
  want to thank them. I feel like once I do, it closes the loop and the act of
  kindness fades