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I Dare You to Fall For Your Best Friend.

Money does not show up when you find you are overwhelmed with grief. Attractiveness does not comfort you when you are suffering from loss. Power gets you nowhere when you are feeling lonely or ill. A best friend is the person who makes you smile through pain, listens when you need to be heard, ...

you & me

The Magic of Loving Yourself.

The one thing we all, women and men alike, need to remember is that people will only love you as much as you love yourself. That includes taking care of yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally. You can’t expect someone to respect your vessel if you abuse it, be that with drugs, alcohol, ...

feminism

To My Sacred Sisters.

Travel to all the forgotten places. Dance naked beneath the shining starlight of your intuition. Rediscover the ancient mysteries drawn on the walls of your womb and the wisdom of the ever-changing scarlet tides of your blood. Step boldly into the long-suppressed fires of sacred anger, allowing ...

poetry

Once Upon a Tide of Tears. {poetry}

We don’t cry after years of absorbing others’ fears that we’ll never stop or we’ll go mad. But madness lies in the very lies that choke our cries so we can go with the 'Fine' status quo.

you & me

Don’t Hold Back from Deeply Falling in Love.

I don't know about you, but I fall in love all the time. I fell in love the other day with a piece of handcrafted chocolate and a cup of coffee, the praises and sounds coming from within me, and the time I took to savor and enjoy, surely was just another kind of lovemaking. It was the most ...

you & me

Being Lloyd Dobler: A Lesson on Authentic Vulnerability.

In the last two years, I have been actively working on healing a broken heart and loving myself fully, while also getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. I could have easily withered away out of embarrassment and rejection, or as a friend said about herself, "felt defeated because I ...

wisdom

30 Life-Changing Lessons Adventure Has Taught Me.

You can get all the knowledge you want from books, but there is no better way to learn than by doing. Has someone ever given you advice about love? Odds are, you didn't listen. You had to go through that experience yourself to truly learn the lesson. By adventuring, you are setting yourself on ...

you & me

I Am Made and Destroyed by the Heat of Love.

Love is nothing but an endless series of questions, a sharp set of teeth in your valves, and an undying devotion to being awake because sleep is rendered useless. Love is everything including the very slowness of minutes when you await affection, the unbearable desire of wanting to fit yourself ...

wisdom

Just Another Day.

“I did see that Full Moon,” my stepmother responded. She continued that it reminded her of a dream she had a few months ago of two lost fish, both out of water. In the dream, she wasn’t sure if the fish would survive. But the minute they found their way back into the water, they swam just fine. ...

poetry

Tombs. {poetry}

Tie my acres of veins around the globe Marking our compass path of the future The roads of the path like rough guitar strings, leading the way out into the pulsing planet

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