My Growing Concepts of Life and God

I just finished reading The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz. This book was the right book for me right now. It seemed to bring together so many thoughts and little nuggets of inner knowing that I’ve had in my head for the past while and wrapped them up […]

Lessons of an Ignorant White Girl

After one of the weirdest years in history, after riots and injustice, after personal pain and loss, after a ridiculous election year that continues to tear people apart, and in the middle of a contested election… I have a lot of thoughts running through my head. It’s so easy to jump in the middle of […]

Grief and Guilt

It has been a big emotion type of day. My husband and I are now in our new home after being nomads for 5-6 weeks. We still have a lot to do. We don’t have about 90% of our belongings yet, so those will need to be moved in and unpacked as well. That doesn’t […]

Step One: Accept the Thoughts

It’s hard to accept help. I’m not sure why. And it’s not all the time. Sometimes I’m completely opposite and I ask for help when I don’t need it. But my husband and I just had a situation where we spent a lot of money and a lot of time and effort on a futile […]

Hug Your Inner Child

I’m starting to realize how much my inner child needs healing. I clearly have negative and painful memories when it comes to my father. When my dad would wake up in the morning and wander out of his room, I would stay silent until I could scrutinize the way he walked and the expression on […]

You Might Be the Asshole

Ok. Maybe you’re not the asshole. You’re probably actually very lovely and I’m just projecting my own experience onto every else’s life. This morning found me grinning to myself as I reflected on a recent interaction with my husband. Our relationship is by far stronger now than it ever has been in the past. After […]

Comparing Negative Traits

I found this writing prompt on a blog and looked at it for a long time: “If I’m honest, I have the same negative traits as my father. For example: ________________.” Oof. Ok. Let’s do this. If I’m honest, I have the same negative traits as my father. For example: I get irrationally irritable and […]

We Don’t Deserve Dogs

When I was in middle school, the family dog probably saved our lives. We lived in a very rural area on about 1.25 acres in the middle of a “National Forest”. My sisters and I were home alone in the middle of the day during the summer when there was a knock on the door […]

Shadow Work Part 2

This was an interesting exercise. It took a minute to get started, but then everything started to flow. It’s interesting to look at these lists and make connections between them. Now I’m going to go hug my inner child and let her know that she is love. She didn’t need love from anyone else. 🖤🤍🖤 […]

Dig Deeper Into the Hurt

If there is one thing that has angered me the most in the past few months, it would definitely be my dad’s Facebook posts. He probably has the same mindset and posts as a lot of conservatives from his generation, but why do his posts in particular make the heat rise on my face and […]