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Owning Our Choices: We Are Not Entitled to the Lives We Didn’t Choose.

By “owning” my choices, I’m better able to appreciate that I chose a different path, the one that was more authentically me. Just because my life looks different than some of my friends’ right now, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have its own unique value.

you & me

The Lost Boys: Seeing Our Own Solitary Reflection.

We play imaginary games of hard-to-get, not realizing that when no one else is aware that any such thing is happening, it becomes not so much a game as a fantasy with which we've entangled our minds. Losing ourselves even deeper in the process. We end the relationship before it’s begun. We stay ...

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What If Positivity, Light & Love Don’t Cut It?

Could you truly state -- in all your authenticity, standing there in your truth, firm in your own power and with your hand upon your beautiful heart -- that positivity, love and light are enough?

you & me

Redemption: Of Course It’s Hard… All Worthwhile Journeys Are.

He is not interested in your redemption. They can do that, you know? Move on. Just like that. And it seems so wrong and unfair and it hurts. And no matter how many times you call him, no matter how many times you lay your heart at his feet and open your arms and show him your truest, most ...

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The Pavement,You, and Me.

It started as an act of defiance, hot fury and confusion, looking for a place to make sense of it, looking for an answer, for a reason. How could you say No to a heart that peeled back every layer, that stepped into the brilliant light totally exposed with flaws and honesty? How could ...

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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 ...

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Soul-Deep Woman, You Won’t Find Love in the Shallows.

For you, dear soul, only one who embraces you in your wholeness will ever do -- someone who will never half-love you or pluck you only to watch you wither.

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I Felt You the Moment I Arrived. {poetry}

It was then that I felt the flood. Warm rush pushing me out of the door and down the street, my hand cupped gently in yours. Your warrior soul, stretching out your wings to cover me in my smallest moment.

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Holy Fuck: On Vulnerable, Erotic, Soul-Centered Loving and Caring for Our Planet.

When our heart is broken wide open, there is an invitation to nearly unimaginable receptivity and fantastical courage to inhabit this sort of loving.

you & me

To the Lover Who Didn’t Know How to Be Loved.

I could be, and in all likelihood am, waiting for something that is never going to come. Then the reality sets in: I am loving someone who doesn’t want to be loved.

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