So Friday evening, after a long week with the boys, so much engagement and so many words, I was spent— and pleased to be draped…
Tell the Truth!! As a young and developing human, I had consistently recieved messaging that my body was wrong, too brown, too tall, too skinny,…
In my family of origin and later my marriage, if there was a sure way to create tension, I did so effortlessly, though not deliberately,…
“Mom, have you ever felt suicidal?”, asked my son. I admitted: “Yeh, but mostly only on special occasions when I was tethered to people who…
I may spend all of my days seeking a way to forgive and emotionally release one who knowingly chooses to do harmful things to those…
Unrelated things which I have thought or heard over the past five weeks: Sometimes we need to explain or discuss things in order to gain…
As a child and young adult I had not known that I possessed any agency over the trajectory of my life. It seemed pre-determined. In the place…
We recently survived a tragic and highly traumatic event, with our most precious, best girl, an Albino Boa, named Goldie. My older son adored and cared…
As part of my practice of recovery, I do take daily personal inventory and sadly, I am not so recovered that I resist also taking…
Nothing good is born out of shame. Ever. And it does not resolve itself over time. If we don’t intentionally work to heal it, shame makes us…