I get you. I know more about you than you think. I know about some of your relationships. I know about your stories. Your excuses. Your “never agains” Your “what ifs” and your “maybe just one more times.” I know what it is like to wonder “Is it me?” or “Why do I keep making [...]
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This is for those of you who think you are not brave. You know what? You are the bravest there is. Yes, YOU. You who are… …doing it all yourself …terrified whether you will pay all the bills this month …ready to walk away from “so so” to find your “fucking awesome” …questioning whether you [...]
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The answer is always simpler than you thought it would be. That in and of itself may seem a bit complicated, as our maneuvering, our questioning, our ruminating, our never-ending mental ping pong always tells us it must be really, really complicated. But it isn’t. It is simple. And, yet, our egos and their henchmen [...]
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Are you happy? Do you think about what happy means for you? About whether you are happy? If not, do you think about what needs to change for you to feel happy? If yes, is that your way? Are you a happy person? I wonder what happy means. Whether there is a threshold – above [...]
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Today, I am wearing a green dress. It is bright green and loud. It feels so lovely against my skin and flows so beautifully with every step I take. I loved this dress the moment I saw it on the rack in the store. I couldn’t decide between sizes, but when I saw that it [...]
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To give oneself up, submit or yield. Surrender. It is to say goodbye to all of the expectations you had. To acknowledge you are not in control of everything. To abandon the quest for what “should” be or is “supposed” to be. It is to be at peace with what is and with what will [...]
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I looked up the word “enough” in my tattered Webster’s online and here is what I found: “adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire. Synonyms: amply, adequately, reasonably.” Being the word nerd that I am, I was particularly intrigued by the synonyms. The same word can have similar [...]
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It isn’t easy to believe. In the face of disappointment or rejection or uncertainty. In the belly of a dry period or even at the height of the lowest low. It isn’t easy to believe. That it will get better, that this isn’t forever. That the bad things aren’t signs of more bad things to [...]
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I was 9-years-old and sitting, for what seemed forever, in the backseat of my mom’s maroon Cadillac as we drove from our home in Maryland to Canada for a two-week summer vacation. Apparently, my parents had one source of music. I think it was an 8-track tape. (You may know what that is; if you [...]
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There is The Day Of, and then there is, inevitably, The Day After. Sometimes, yesterday was something hard — too long, too much, to stressful, too all over the place. But there is always The Day After. A chance to fix what didn’t work. To move on from what you can’t change. To let go [...]
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