I’ve been addicted to social media since 2009 when I first started blogging and became obsessed with posting EVERY SINGLE THING I did and EVERY THOUGHT I ever had. I knew it was bad when I couldn’t take a hike, spend time with my family, or cook a simple meal without thinking I had to […]
I recently started running again after taking a very long (years long) hiatus. I was never a great runner but since I played soccer and rugby, I had to stay in shape. After having my son, I decided that walking and the occasional yoga class would suffice. But recently I had the urge to get […]
One of my writing practices is to ask my spirit guides a question and then immediately write whatever comes to me. This is how I write many of the blog posts you’ll find here. The answers I get help me whenever I’m feeling down and need a push to keep moving forward. So today’s post […]
I get nutrition assistance (a.k.a. food stamps). It’s not a comfortable thing to do. Personally, it’s something I believe in, but I know what a lot of people think about “people who take handouts.” I’ve had more than one friend make disparaging comments about people on food stamps before I stopped them by telling them […]
Last week I shared with you how I’m taking 40 days off from social media, podcasts, celebrity gossip, and TV. First of all, I’ll admit that I have done a horrible job at this. I’ve totally been checking Facebook, with a little smattering of Instagram and even one late night celebrity googling bingeathon (Oh Miley, […]
Lately I’ve been feeling unmoored. Untethered. Buffeted about by my life, my emotions, social media, and politics. My social anxiety – always a presence, sometimes more, sometimes less – seems to have taken ahold of me. And my self-care tactics to ward off depression haven’t been working. A part of me seems to be lost, […]
I thought my life would be different. Not better. Just different. When I was a kid, I thought I would go to college, meet the love of my life, get married, have my first child by 24, work part-time while my well-to-do husband worked full-time, have one or two more kids…and that was it. That […]
I am an introvert, so the pull to go inside, to be quiet and still has always been present for me. I have bursts of outward energy, but for the most part I am called deeper into the forest of my own mind. Deeper into the quiet. I am also someone who is always doing despite that […]
I have days, sometimes even weeks, where I am completely inspired. As a writer, I’ll find myself stopping throughout the day to scribble down the words that are coming to me. It’s energizing. I feel in love with writing because it comes so naturally and I barely have to do any work. It is like […]
Success, when it comes, can come so quickly that to the outside world it looks like magic or just plain luck. You might look like an overnight success at whatever it is you have finally begun to achieve. And even to yourself it might feel miraculous how easily your desires now come to you. Yet […]