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Thank You For Helping Me Learn What Is Right Through All The Wrong.

As difficult as it is for me to admit, I also owe myself a debt of gratitude. Because I survived. I made my way out. I am still here. With my words and my voice and my truth. And those are things that can never be taken from me. I was forced to dig deep to find the resilience and perseverance I ...

world

4 Things That I Learnt When My Mother, Father And Brother Died In My Twenties.

People are more concerned with how their life looks than how their life feels. I’m conscious of how much time I spend texting, emailing or checking social media. I have regular internet breaks and detoxes. Social media is a time vacuum. I don’t know about you, but I want to appreciate life and ...

poetry

The Art Of Poetry Is No Longer Lost. {poetry}

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happiness

A Love Letter Of Gratitude To My Eyes.

I am incredibly grateful that I have the privilege and honor of witnessing my beautiful daughters evolve and explore their lives. I am able to play with them and watch them learn, delight in their smiles, laughter and all their forms of expression. I look into their eyes and experience the ...

you & me

What I Saw Unlocked And Rocked My Heart.

Throughout the years of working with children and families, I feel fortunate for all they have taught me. Learning is a reciprocal process, and gifts can be found in each shade of light and dark. I am a teacher and a counselor and a leader, but more often a follower of the needs of others.

you & me

My Teenage Daughter, the Merciless Mirror.

Perhaps she is something unimaginable; something timeless. Born of love so pure she will be my merciless mirror so I can see what needs cleaning, what needs washing.

you & me

5 Ways To Break The Addiction To Sadness.

Admittedly, I’d had some stressful and shitty things happen over the past few months. However, I realized within minutes of waking up that morning that I had been making a habit of being sad. I hadn’t just been reminding others that I was going to be sad that month, I had actually been ...

wisdom

Old Soul Recognition and Why We Need Them.

An old soul has integrity and a spirit so deep that it incites emotions we thought we never possessed, yet it rises up and out of us when they are near.

happiness

Dealing With Guilt & Shame: A Body Doesn’t Lie.

In her internal onslaught, she needed to meet face to face with her antagonists. She opened an ancient double-hinged door. The heaviness was tremendous. The circular iron rings pressed cruelly into her palms. She remained focused on a vision branded into her being and tattooed on her soul.

wisdom

How 1,001 Dragonflies & Tangerine Sunsets Serenaded My Soul.

As much as my soul is quenched by learning and exploring, it equally treasures a silent abyss where I can read for the joy of reading. I devour the smell and feel the delicate moth-like pages turn. I become the words and images. I am the book.

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