Category: Self Love
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The Day I Found My Voice
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? The Day I found my voice, she filled my ears like a choir singing. She washed over me like the crashing of ocean waves. She stilled me like the silence of a starry night. She lit me up like the soft glow of sunbeams…
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Smile. Be Polite.
They roll to a stop in the rusty old Datsun. Sadie sits in the front seat even though her head can barely see over the window. Seat belt baggy across her hips. ‘She’s a Man Eater’ playing very quietly in the background Watch out boy she’ll chew you up. The Suze switches the radio off…
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But Why?
I have been journaling since the 4th grade. As a child I did it as a way to keep track of my days. To be there for myself, when nobody else was. I have always been one who feels allllll the feelings. Deeply. Intensely. But expressing them was not allowed or tolerated in our house.…
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Sick of My Story
I’ve always thought that I can’t help anyone, until I am healed. I can’t write a story, until I have the right ending. I won’t have an impact, until I have arrived. But healing is not linear, and seemingly, never ends. If I don’t start writing the story, the only way it ends, is with…
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Easy to Love
I recently realized how much of my life I have spent trying to be, ‘Easy to Love’. Be small when you need to be, invisible even. Be funny when you need to, be a good time. Bite your tongue. Absorb and reflect other’s energy so they feel comfortable. Be relaxed, if that’s not possible, at…
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Anger Management
My oldest son once said to me, around 8 years old, “You know mom, the only thing that makes you really mad is when other people get mad.” It’s true. Not the emotion of anger, but the inability to control it, particularly in the presence of children, is one of my biggest triggers. We had…
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Consequences of Sunshine and Laughter
Good Morning. I’ve begun my 43rd trip around the sun, thanks for the liver spots and melasma, you fantastic orb of gas and fire. Obviously aging is better than the alternative, but it sure can be tricky to navigate. Collagen depletes, metabolism slows, the consequences of sunshine and laughter, show themselves. I wouldn’t take either…
little victories 