Discovering Hope in Despair
I began my living list on April 30th, 2018 and I left it as a draft. I started it shortly after having emergency gallbladder removal surgery. You know...the surgery where I almost died. And I have periodically added to this list since. I consciously chose not to post it because I knew there would be …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #9 – My Living List
I do not know how to start this post. So let me just get straight to the point. I have always known what has been holding me back from experiencing life. But I have always been in denial. Or maybe ignorant? I have always known what lays at the center of my pain. What is …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #8 – A Little Step to the Summit
I am a daughter, wife, and a mother. I am a scout leader. I am a full time employee. I am a graduate with her MBA. I have a lot of surface layer labels. But who am I? Underneath the surface? Am I a lover of music? Reader of pages? Writer of words? Am I …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #7 – Who Am I?
It has taken me 2 weeks to finish this post. And I edited the first attempt so many times that a goldfish wouldn't even be able to follow along. So I decided I needed to start fresh. And maybe this time, examine why this topic is so important to me, yet so hard to write …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #6 – Define Let It Go. Attempt #2
Hi. I have missed you all. It's been a long 2 1/2 months. Woah. Has it really been 11 weeks since I last wrote anything? Wow. It has been a long 11 weeks. I feel like I hopped on an out of control roller coaster ride that finally spit me out last week. But not …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #5 – The Tornado That Saved Me
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have seen, or felt, or somehow experienced some sort of intense emotion related to the current political environment. Not only in America. But around the world. Social media gives us the ability to be bombarded with tragic events and news stories 24.7.365. Some days it is …
Continue reading The Loving Myself Journey: Gate #3 – Common Ground
If you do not know who I am, or haven't ran across my post about what 808 means to me, then let me give you the cliff notes version. I see 808 constantly. Everywhere. Sometimes I do not see it for a few days, or even a week or more. But it never ceases to …
I dont know what happened this evening. But somehow, some way, my brain just relaxed. It loosened. It shed its white knuckle grip on my soul? My guard? My wall? No... my brain freed it from itself. And I figured out what I needed to do in order for me to complete my mission critical …
