Fear is a red flag, but it’s not a decision maker. It’s a moment to take stock and see what we are afraid of, why, and offers us a change to mitigate risk see if we take a detour or change direction.
Perhaps I should have listened to you when I lost my father. When childhood was stolen from me. When my innocence was taken without my permission. When my marriage fell apart. These were my secrets I wanted to keep.
{Photo via Pinterest} I’ve recently moved house, and aside from the endless cardboard boxes to unpack, not knowing where anything is, and desperately wanting to take a two-week holiday while someone comes and makes it liveable for me, I’ve found that I’ve been questioning myself — as a woman, ...
It is because of our mistakes that we grow and travel away from the pigeonholed demise of what we’ve been told. We acknowledge our sad and painful stories then step aside from defending, clinging and holding onto an endless swirl of reconciliation.
{Photo: Mel Clark} I have spent the last week or more properly chasing down my dream. I’m taking this thing seriously now, all of me. More than a passing fancy, well beyond an idea that became what? A hobby? Something I love to do all the time anyway? It has grown legs. I have been ...
Are the joys of your life as simple as they should be? The joys of my life are simple: Reading and finishing a book in a day, writing poetry because I believe life and all its pains can be written with metaphors into something more beautiful than it was before, music because a pounding bass and ...
Don’t lie to yourself. There’s an entire world of people waiting to lie to you. Don’t do their job for them. Be your own voice of reason. Be your own truth. Listen to your truth. It’s there, waiting. It won’t go away, but it will get frustrated.
{source} By Yentl T. De Luna Often we go through life so fast, from one scene to the next, just taking it all in, letting it all go, without really taking time to evaluate or process what we’re doing. We’re just dealing, being Superwoman, until some force of nature — a memory, a word, hell, ...