@BucketListBaker: Harry Potter taught me the power of imagination and the value of idealism @annagracem13: The #PotterSaga helped me to recognize how all types of people, preps to goths to rich to poor all need a little magic.
It wasn't easy to find a stand-up espresso in those pre-Starbucks days, but -- more to the point -- it helped me to recognize the strength and authenticity of that city's not-especially-large Italian community.
This has helped me to recognize the difference between how seriously Apple takes photography and the way that other companies approach "making the camera better".
It helped me to recognize how damage is done so early on.
A great tool over the course of this experience was "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton, which helped me to recognize and acknowledge my feelings to others.
Although I was relieved, I didn't start to feel any better until I began seeing a psychologist, who helped me to recognize and treat my anxiety.
Peggy McIntosh's well-known essay "White Privilege and Male Privilege," first helped me to recognize the influence of privilege in my own life.
A complaint call from the neighbor, however, highlighting a full hour of perpetual barking helped me to recognize just how desperate our departures left our pitiful pup -- even in the company of a houseful of other pets.
The memory of a lost love, the sudden intrusion into mind of some personal failing, the nagging anxiety of the undone task -- mindfulness practice helps me to recognize and abandon my unrealistic quest either to avoid or to anesthetize myself from these jabs of hurt that visit me, often many times a minute.
Fortunately, I knew enough, and had the level-headed support of my husband, to help me recognize that I was no longer an emotionally safe parent to open up to and connect with.
