A Turquoise Reflection of Us.
Standing with you amidst the turquoise reflection, I knew how much I wholeheartedly and completely loved you, and it was in that moment that I knew how much I needed you.
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Yancy Lael
Vulnerability: The Hallmark of Living Bravely.
Are you getting married because you’re getting older and you don’t want to be alone, or because you’ve found someone whom you truly love, whom you feel worthy and deserving of? When we make choices based on fear, we lose ourselves and end up living lives that aren’t our own.
A Heartfelt Message to My Brothers About How We Treat Women.
Do we listen, learn, and grow in their presence? Are we open, curious, and patient in our exploration of women's mysteries and riches and dimensions? I hope so.
I Quit Drinking Because of Her.
I realized why I hadn’t been drinking. It stopped me from feeling. It stopped me from feeling something. And even if it’s only tiny, even if it only halts some smidgen of emotion, I realized that’s what booze does for me. It inhibits feeling.
Protect the Innocent, and Raise Your Voices About Child Abuse.
Childhood sexual abuse is everywhere, yet people refuse to see it, refuse to confront it, refuse to even acknowledge, let alone heal, the pain of those who have experienced it.
The Price of Pleasing.
The price they pay for your pleasing is their freedom. The freedom to have their own experiences, their own feelings and emotions that may have nothing to do with you. The price you pay for your pleasing is your truth.
Mother Lode: Holding Fast to What Matters.
To know the pleasure available at any hour is to know intimately that hour’s pain. And my impulse is to experience and express it all.
Ask for My Permission and Watch Me Melt: A Compilation of First Kisses and Enthusiastic Consent.
I guess I don’t have much to add to the discussion that hasn’t already been said, but can we please just stop teaching our boys that the only option is to consistently be on the hunt? Like, with a little softness, the gazelle will come to you very willingly, the kink can come later.
A Letter from the Creator.
Maybe I'd tell you that if you could understand the language of other animals, as well as of the trees, flowers, mountains and oceans, then you would know that you're not the only ones wanting answers, that most of the time the other animals, as well as the trees, plants, oceans and mountains, ...
Looking past the ICU Ceiling: Believing in Life Again After My Coma.
Our dreams are the seeds that life plants for us, where our intuition whispers to us, and where we can find an anchor to our place in the world -- even if we are 'displaced' from it suddenly at 18.