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100 Things: A List To Live By For My Daughter, My Inner Child, And Yours.

I can’t dry my mother’s infinite tears or stop her from swallowing those pills, any more than I can protect my daughter from all the cruelties of this world… but, I honor them both by living.

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.

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Write to Discover Your Authentic Life Path.

Write as if you are conducting a spiritual shamanic ritual using your fingers as the fire instead. Write as if you are praying.

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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A Love Affair With Autumn.

As the nights grow crisp and the air is a splash of freshness, something inside of me wants to savor the art of folding inwards. The intrigue of this alluring state is incredibly stirring. To check my reality, I blink to make sure I can find a way to match the pause and rhapsody.

happiness

More Than Happiness, We Need Kindness.

Life is not about the pursuit of happiness; life is about giving and growing from within. Happiness is the effect of that journey.

you & me

12 Things A Woman Told Me That Changed My Life.

This was one of my first lessons in romance. We were at a nice restaurant, the kind where the waiters smell clean, and I filled her wine glass before it was empty. That’s what they did in the movies I’d seen, so it seemed like the right thing to do. Her response dropped my jaw.

you & me

When Love Is Real And When It’s Not.

I am strong. I am wise. I am intelligent. I am free. No one can take that away from me.

happiness

Behind The Velvet Rope: Fear Vs. Spirituality.

We have societal rules based on perfectionism and obedience to an invisible presence of higher control. Calculating decisions based in self-hatred, ridicule, and even well-intended love begins to set fear-based consequences in motion. We have learned to self-medicate with dangerous emotions, ...

happiness

Shatter The Facade: 5 Brave Acts To Rekindle Vulnerability.

This will hurt. You have been taught the wrong message for so long that a lie has become the truth. You were told that vulnerability is distasteful. You have been warned to hold it together, pull up your bootstraps, suck it up, and grow up. You have become ashamed by your acculturated ...

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