The Exact Right Words
When you are raised having your words and feelings ignored, dismissed, challenged and twisted to be used against you, you may, as I did, dedicate much time to seeking the…
Learning to Belong
As far back as I remember, I did not belong. Anywhere. I was different from the people to whom I am genetically linked, and regarded by them, in ways which…
The Quality of My Thoughts
When the people you are tethered to in childhood or marriage are the same ones who kick your feet out from under you, it fucks up your belief that things…
You Can’t Make Me and Neither Can I
“You can't make me and neither can I.” I am almost finished with Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies and this line really stayed with me. ???Hard truth. Discipline over my thinking is a…