What are you grateful for today? Share . . .
As a grown woman with a career, a family, and a very full, beautiful life I find it difficult to talk to people about my deep discontent with love I wasn’t given as a little girl. In fact, I can talk myself right out of my feelings quicker than I could share them with anyone. […]
My dear friends, that title says it all, doesn’t it? As a woman in recovery from much bigger and badder things than carbs I half-smiled writing it. In fact, the revelation of being in a carb junkie is new to me, it didn’t occur to me until the night my father came home on hospice. […]
Life is but a combination of fleeting moments strung together to create hours, days, years, and decades. As I sit next to my dying father, I am running through the combination of fleeting moments from our life together. I remember less of what he said to me and more of how he made me feel. […]
My friends, I stopped doing my house work. The dishes from New Years Eve sat in the sink until January 5th. I walked over the same small plastic straw wrapper umpteen times without any regard. I devised a special laundry system that involved leaving all clean laundry in baskets . . . unfolded. When I […]
Stop me if you have heard this one before. Or lived this one before . . . To a child, love was withheld and unconditional love was a thing with unending conditions. Love was only available for the obedient, so a child modifies their behavior to get the love need. Some people call that “manipulation” […]
My friends, many of us have said . . . I want to get outside of myself . . . what does that even mean? Well . . . There are some mornings that deserve prayer more than others. The mornings that I wake up and feel happy, I have a prayer of gratitude. The […]
Coming to after passing out always felt strange to her. There were important questions that came to mind before she could even open her eyes.Do you remember the end of night?How did you get here?Are you alone?Who is here with you?If none of those questions could be answered before her eyes open, there was a […]