A Queen’s Quest for Sovereignty and How It Led to Divorce. {Part Four}
There is no point at which I say, “There, I am totally free. I am sovereign. Crown me Queen.” No, it’s more like, “I’m doing my best.”
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A Queen’s Quest for Sovereignty and How It Led to Divorce. {Part Two}
I let my boundaries be at first weak, and then non-existent, to keep the status quo and keep myself safe... I was supposedly becoming sovereign.
A Queen’s Quest for Sovereignty and How It Led to Divorce. {Part One}
I did not know the depths of the ingrained patterns and how they were still shaping my choices and my life until I committed to being sovereign.
3 Lies Women Tell Themselves After a Breakup… and What to Do Instead.
Your love will flourish from a different part of you, the part that is slightly more ripe, a little more rooted in yourself.
The Only Way out Is Through, but Sometimes It Isn’t: Part Two.
After my divorce, I'd returned home. Like an abused dog, with my tail between my legs. Swapped out a broken heart for the abuse I was more familiar with.
Rainbows and Unicorns, My Ass: My Family Post-Divorce.
Opening my heart meant welcoming my ex-husband and his partner completely into family celebrations that I had previously shared with my children on my own.
This House Held the Space for Me to Find Myself.
This house let me breathe in the silence. It is the last piece of our broken marriage for me to grieve.
Shed Youthful Preconceptions and Fathom the Depths That Follow.
Learn not to judge the homeless, the divorced, the childless women, the addicts, the mentally ill. We all f*** up at some point. They had dreams too, and are not weird because they defaulted from convention. Simply, through no fault of their own, their plans just did not work out. But a greater ...
An Open Letter to the Masculine Man.
I’m sorry if I turned you down because you just weren’t alpha enough for me... I’ve seen the tools in your toolshed you use to bury your unwelcome emotions...
Your cousin is killed in a car accident: the bottom of the glass of scotch.
Suck it up.
Your mom is diagnosed with Stage 4 lung ...
The Prison of Helping.
I mistook saving for partnership. I let 'I want you' be just as good as 'I love you', and I tried to fill in all the gaps with good effort.