Dayna Del Val

Personal Systems Disruptor

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  • Contact me
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  • Public speaking
  • Writing Retreat Reflections
  • Personal Writing

    6 months, 182 days, 4,380 hours ago…

    March 2, 2021 / 0 Comments

    So the Hamlet analogy can only go so far since the ending is not something to aspire to, but the point of hesitancy is something very real to consider. How do other people make bold moves with so little certainty of the outcome? And what is it about the potential of success or failure that I'm afraid of?

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    Dayna Del Val

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  • Personal Writing

    Going in for a trim

    February 23, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Like my haircut, most people won't even notice we've been unconnected. We're all busy in our own lives, managing (or attempting to) our own obligations. One friend fewer, one missing social media feed, is unlikely to raise alarms in anyone's life, but what it's already done for me, how I'm feeling, is infinitely valuable.

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    The perfect cup of tea

    November 1, 2019

    The ever tipping scales of balance

    September 11, 2020

    In conflict with faith

    August 31, 2019
  • Dr. Marry and Me

    Stepping out of the shadows: a (re)birthday reflection

    February 16, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Yes, I loved celebrating Dr Marry's 48th birthday with this joyful post and a fun party. But I love today a million times more because we no longer live in secrets. We feel no shame. We have overcome something that, incredibly, isn't even really the tiniest bit unique.

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    February 1st was our second chance at life and love

    February 1, 2021 / 0 Comments

    In many ways, I did become a widow that night. I did lose the husband I had had from May 31, 2008 to February 1, 2017. That man began a six-week journey of dying and being reborn simultaneously, Phoenix-like. And, actually, I did, too.

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    7-card stud, Texas hold ’em, 5-card draw…

    January 29, 2021 / 0 Comments

    In keeping with my last post/commitment to growing my network, I want to share this not-so-small victory. I was scrolling through LinkedIn earlier this week and came across a picture of an AA chip. sidenote: Isn’t it funny what matters to you after something happens in your life that you would never have paid any attention to before? I wouldn’t have even recognized an AA chip four years ago, and now I stop to read the accompanying success post of every single one I see. I didn’t know the man who posted it, but I saw that we had four tenuous connections. I sent him a message to see if…

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Parenting,  Personal Writing

    A potential shooter, curtains and my early morning habits disrupted

    January 23, 2021 / 2 Comments

    But as I reread the emergency alert, I wish for one half of one second that we had curtains. And I hesitate to even write that because Dr Marry will use that sentence against me for the rest of our lives together. But it's true.

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    Lead from the Outside, ruffled feathers and the attempted sound of silence

    January 16, 2021 / 0 Comments

    This assignment asks us to be vulnerable, honest, brave and willing to both praise and censure ourselves as well as accept praise and censure from others. What could happen in your life if you got honest with yourself and if others were willing to go to a place of loving honesty to really give you the opportunity to reflect and grow as a person? Could you take it? Would you hear it and ponder it, or would you ruffle your feathers and defend your actions?

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  • Parenting,  Personal Writing

    25 trips around the sun with my boy

    January 13, 2021 / 10 Comments

    Even in that moment, holding this tiniest, most perfect of little persons, my mom didn't say yes or no. It wasn't that all these people didn't have opinions, but every single one of them knew I was going to have to do this largely by myself; that answer had to come only from me. I looked down on little Quinn John, and I decided to be his mom.

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    2020: my year in review

    December 31, 2020 / 4 Comments

    Beyond the devastation (and our late in the year diagnosis), COVID was a gift for Dr Marry and me. I closed down my offices in March and have been working from home ever since. That means Dr Marry and I had all spring and summer and much of the fall together since his job was also a hybrid of in-person and virtual teaching. We walked and biked more than we ever have. I baked copious amounts of bread and went back to my pre-full time job delight of searching for and trying fun new recipes.

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  • Dr. Marry and Me,  Personal Writing

    Daily Dose celebrates 100 episodes!

    November 27, 2020 / 3 Comments

    Starting today, we're moving Daily Dose to its own Facebook page. It's time for it to have a new life of its own, separated from my work with extraordinary. We hope you'll tune in, like the page and start sharing it with your network. At its core, Daily Dose is about exploring the things that are holding us back and finding ways to move forward into our best, most joyful life.

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