Dear Women, Please Do Whatever It Takes to Stay Open.
I have done ridiculous and radical things to stay open. Thrown food. Pushed. Slapped. Sobbed. Stuffed Twinkies in my mouth with a stranger at midnight.
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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.
I Surrender: Moving Towards Wholeness After Heartbreak.
I surrender. I don’t have the sparkle in my eye that says, it’ll be okay in the end. Tonight, it’s not okay. I’m not okay.
I Breathe In, Until I Breathe You Out.
I wonder if the death of 'us' will kill me. But I breathe in, and I put myself together as best as I can to show the world that your words don’t faze me.
The Man and the Monster.
My love could never relinquish the monster. Unless the man was ready to permanently remove the beast from himself, I could never have one without the other.
Blackness Moves over My Heart in Ways I’ve Never Experienced.
Writing words that are never beautiful enough, never truthful enough, never loving enough... But these words hold a desperate hope that you will read them.
4 Flavors of Fearless Generosity.
Don’t wait until you’re fearless to be generous because often fearlessness comes through giving. In the act of generosity, we become more fearless.
We Women Just Can’t Take a Joke, Can We?
This joke was not the product of haplessly old-fashioned, harmlessly sexist men. It was purposeful, deeply misogynistic violence, passed off as joking.
An Open Letter to the Boy Who Broke Me.
I don’t want to wonder 'what if' every time I look at you. I’m writing this letter to tell you everything I wish I would’ve said.
Toying with Tinder: Is ‘out There’ Really Where I’ll Find My Flame?
Are such men spending their time scrolling through Tinder? Or do these men have faith, like me, that they’ll stumble upon love when the timing’s right?