Category: Life Lessons
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Rejection
These walls were built for you That enemy that wears too many hats Who talks too much and knows too much about me Knows the ways to get down into the cracks of my psyche Apparently has a roadmap to my soul Knows how to make me lose my self-worth Knows how to bruise me…
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Love You More
Finding someone who celebrates you is entirely underrated. Finding someone who happily kisses all the rough edges and the broken parts of your heart without trying to fix you, that’s love. And that’s what it means to say, “I love you more”. It has been the journey of my life to find myself. I am…
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Self- Discipline
Self-discipline doesn’t end at “as it pertains to self” it also applies to what you’re willing to do for the benefit of those you love. (Giving up some bad habit or structuring your days differently or retraining your focus where it was once free to roam unabated or eating better or moving more, all in…
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Surviving Daughters
We all have a unique experience when we lose a parent. If you have siblings, not one of them will be going through the same experience as you at the same time even though you had the same loss. It’s not just because of the timeline difference. It’s because our mothers have unique relationships with…
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Fixed for Peace
Sometimes there are just too many apologies that need to be made. Ones you’ll never get because the person who owes them is incapable of that thing called perspective. A romantic relationship is never not complicated. It’s not the love part. That’s either there or it’s not. It’s not the attraction. There’s a spark that…
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How to love a child who doesn’t love you back – a mother’s honest narrative of raising a child with reactive attachment disorder : Institute For Attachment & Child Development
When people dream of adoption, they often picture a child to love who loves back and settles into their family beautifully. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the reality. — Read on www.instituteforattachment.org/how-to-love-a-child-who-doesnt-love-you-back-a-mothers-honest-narrative-of-raising-a-child-with-reactive-attachment-disorder/
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Rumors
Rumors are the shards of glass that fall from the shattered chandelier of adolescence. They stick in your feet as you try to walk by them with your head held high and scar your hands when you try to clean them up. When you get dressed and try to go about your day, they constantly…
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SHARED Trauma and a Facebook Post
Dear William, I wanted to write a response to you regarding your comments on my post but I needed to do some digging first. Like, the real deep kind. My knee-jerk reaction was just to make a snarky comment and set you in your place. That’s not what I dreamed up when I made that…
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Cliques vs Friend Groups
Ladies, hear my words and rethink your attitude toward other women! Cliques still kill me. I’ve never understood the need to stand shoulder to shoulder with other women and make other people feel unwelcome. But it doesn’t mean I don’t want to be accepted or that I’m somehow immune to the sting of rejection. When…
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Finding YOUR PEOPLE and ACCEPTING YOURSELF
I used to hate my stomach. Then I hated my arms. Then I felt insecure about all of the things. ALL OF THE THINGS…. I used to wish I was smarter. I used to wish I had more tact. I used to wish I fit in everywhere with everyone. EVERYWHERE WITH EVERYONE….(sigh) And then one…
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How to Eat Like a French Woman
How to Eat Like a French Woman — Read on www.google.com/amp/s/www.vogue.com/article/eat-like-a-french-woman-how-to/amp I thought this was an interesting read. I was remembering having read an article somewhere where a woman described having lived in France and how even the children waited for mealtime and didn’t snack all the time. I was looking for that and ran…
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DisturbingClarity… from the Garden
Each day go out and see the growth, the damage, the thirst, the bounty. Serve it. Recognize it for what it is. Call it by its name. Be grateful and glad, humbled or sad if that is what the moment calls for.
Disturbing Clarity 