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The Women Who Said Yes To Themselves.

There is a field that lies between the lands of these mixed messages. Within that field lives your truth. It is that soil which you must tend to and care for, because that is the soil which will support and nourish your soul.

wellness

Reducing Stress: What Scientists Learned From Children Who Survived Dutch Hunger Winter.

Not only do the effects of stress and malnutrition impact us at the time they occur, they can have lingering effects on ourselves and our children for decades to come.

wisdom

When It Hurts: Surviving People, Life And Madness.

These people won’t tell you the truth no way, no how because they don’t trust you (and that’s because they know you can’t trust them) or because they have too much invested in the opposing perspective. They don’t want to understand you or make allowances or hear explanations.

you & me

Thank You For Surviving The Wreck And Choosing Life.

The healing that sometimes happens is exquisite, shattering every idea I once had about how much a human heart can hold. Against all odds, it is possible that sometimes our grief gives us our humanity, restores us to relationship. But it does not return us to what once was.

fiction

Womb World: A Bedtime Fable For Adults. {fiction}

Somehow, some-when, the world had been reversed, and here she was, alone with the recognition that she, and the rest of civilization, was fastened to the ceiling. If only they could recognize this, together, as a whole, as a human collective, every man, woman, child, forming a thing with fins ...

poetry

The Darkness Within You, Unacknowledged… {poetry}

Lack of acknowledgement does not make it less real, does not make it less powerful, less painful.

you & me

Surviving With A Broken Heart.

Take the opportunity to face some unpleasant truths that will ultimately help you heal. Maybe, like me, you notice that your devotion to the love for this person was covering up some of your own unresolved issues? You notice that in spite of having 500 Facebook friends and radiating smiles ...

poetry

Wanderlusting. {poetry}

but I want so desperately to believe that love is the answer that I’m willing to jump headfirst without looking and crawl back up with scraped palms and bloody knees when no one but the ground is there to catch me just to jump again without remembering what the question was in ...

wisdom

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 ...

wisdom

Thriving, Surviving, And The Art Of Being Human.

And so we have no choice but to take it and proceed, interpreting what lies before and all around us as things of danger: things to be avoided, things to fight, things to keep out of our inner world. This is how we survive. This is when we drop the veil to all things -- both the good and the ...

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