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Andrea Loewen

We’re Going to Need Some Scaffolding Over Here

“How are you doing?”

3 min readAug 24, 2021

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Andrea Loewen

Just a Few Holes

When my boyfriend and I decided to move in together, I was so excited to make room for him in my home. I would stand in the living room of…

3 min readAug 23, 2021

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Andrea Loewen

Nothing Ends, Not Even COVID

That’s what they tell me, at least. The scientists, about nature. Things don’t end, they change. They transform. It is, as they say, the…

3 min readDec 11, 2020

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Nothing Ends, Not Even COVID

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Andrea Loewen

Try This: Make an ‘I Don’t’ List

Do you feel a constant need to do everything? Like, everyyyyythiiinnngggg? Here’s a way out that is saving my sanity.

4 min readNov 12, 2019

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Try This: Make an ‘I Don’t’ List

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Andrea Loewen

This Week in Church: Holding Alllllll the Tension Between the Stunningly Beautiful and Deeply…

This week in church, we had one part of a community conversation that is both stunningly beautiful and deeply infuriating.

4 min readNov 7, 2019

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This Week in Church: Holding Alllllll the Tension Between the Stunningly Beautiful and Deeply…

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Andrea Loewen

What Does it Mean to Be a Peacemaker?

“Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without…

2 min readOct 31, 2019

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What Does it Mean to Be a Peacemaker?

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Andrea Loewen

The Unexpected Benefits of Giving Thanks

Years ago, I made intentional expressions of gratitude a central part of my efforts to claw my way out of depression and self-loathing.

3 min readAug 15, 2018

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The Unexpected Benefits of Giving Thanks

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Andrea Loewen

ME TOO. Now can we try to do something to actually make this better, please?

Yesterday I woke up to see a bunch of friends with ME TOO as their status on Facebook.

4 min readOct 17, 2017

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ME TOO. Now can we try to do something to actually make this better, please?

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Andrea Loewen

How our cognitive biases are ruining everything, and how we could use them to trick ourselves into…

I have a theory about systemic biases in the world and a way we can take a big step in combating them. A lot of people aren’t going to like…

5 min readJul 20, 2017

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How our cognitive biases are ruining everything, and how we could use them to trick ourselves into…

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Andrea Loewen

The sucky and less-sucky things to do when living life on the cheap

Image by Anna Varak Back in the day, I wrote a column for a local website on cheap things to do in Vancouver. Being that this city is…

5 min readJul 20, 2017

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The sucky and less-sucky things to do when living life on the cheap

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Andrea Loewen

Andrea Loewen

Andrea is a writer, theatre producer/publicist, and choreographer in Vancouver. She enjoys tea, the colour yellow, her cat, making things, and party planning.

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