You Are Everything You Need to Remember.
It is strange how we persist in holding on so tightly to the hearts that harm us. Fear convinces us that an intolerable reality is a better friend than unknown possibility.
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Don’t Ignore Me: The Importance of Being Seen in a Relationship.
Really, the burden falls on both parties in these moments. As women, we often believe that our lovers should just know. They should put together all the physical and emotional signals. They should energetically notice that something is off. Men are often shocked when their women blow up on them ...
Let Us Appreciate the Women in Our Lives, Including Ourselves.
As we now move in between International Women’s Day on March 8th which began in 1909 focused on women’s labor issues and suffrage, and Mother’s Day, a national holiday started in 1914 honoring mothers on the second Sunday in May, let’s focus on appreciating the women in our lives, and the ...
The Lost Boys: Seeing Our Own Solitary Reflection.
We play imaginary games of hard-to-get, not realizing that when no one else is aware that any such thing is happening, it becomes not so much a game as a fantasy with which we've entangled our minds. Losing ourselves even deeper in the process. We end the relationship before it’s begun. We stay ...
Six Keys for Growth That I Learned from Living on an Island.
Doing things on the fly that are risky is okay. Some of them may end up being the best things you have ever done.
We Create Our Lives from a Place of Emptiness.
We can access, in our emptiness, our deep inner knowing underneath the dramas of the mind and the traumas of the past. Then we can find a space to truly create our lives from.
Redemption: Of Course It’s Hard… All Worthwhile Journeys Are.
He is not interested in your redemption. They can do that, you know? Move on. Just like that. And it seems so wrong and unfair and it hurts. And no matter how many times you call him, no matter how many times you lay your heart at his feet and open your arms and show him your truest, most ...
The Pavement,You, and Me.
It started as an act of defiance, hot fury and confusion, looking for a place to make sense of it, looking for an answer, for a reason. How could you say No to a heart that peeled back every layer, that stepped into the brilliant light totally exposed with flaws and honesty? How could ...
Safety or Sanity? I Choose the Latter.
I can fend off my power, push it away, swallow it down for some time, but I know it will rise up of its own accord, and if I don’t let it out, it will collapse me.
Carriers of Life: A Personal Letter to Mourning Mothers.
Recognition of mothers aborting beyond their will establishes a link between women who have experienced carrying life across time and space. The history of the collective female body becomes clear, and its well of empathy, loyalty, connectedness and emotional resonance becomes available.