A friend of mine, whose family of origin experience is frightfully similar, has just learned, second-hand, of her mother's passing. Her mother, throughout her life, consistently NOT chose her... In…
Surprisingly, it was a very good day. I forced myself to go sweat it out in the yard, pruning, mowing, weeding. I always feel better when I do something…
The more I try to outrun (debating whether lying on the couch or in my bed is considered outrunning) the pain, the less I am able to experience laughter and…
I don’t recall much of life before children, only that I was miserable and treated myself poorly because that is all I knew …that I was undeserving and unworthy of comfort, connection, peace, joy. Those things remained foreign, inaccessible–reserved for the worthy. (more…)