alive Archives | Page 2 of 3

Alive Day: A Reclamation of Life.

I decided if my prognosis was to be believed, I felt I needed to try and pack as much life into those 18 months as possible. My calendar filled with dinners, parties, concerts and Sunday brunches. When weeks turned to months, my body became stronger and I became bolder. I added traveling to the ...

wisdom

Authenticity: Inhabiting Wildly Tender Revolution.

Congruent authenticity happens in the guts and bowels of your life. Being authentic is the grunt-work of the soul, of any deeply human, spiritual path. Being half here, half there, halfhearted, faking it to look good, strategizing to make things easier for your self — that’s the common way of ...

wisdom

Bob Mathias on how to Master the Art of Self-Confidence.

Here’s the thing: we often think that the empty space is just a stage to pass through. We think it’s a transition state, a moment of uncertainty on the way to something else. But it can be much more than that. The empty space is where we grow. The empty space is where we develop ...

wisdom

Things I Know Today: I Am Scared And I’m Alive.

I've spent long hours trying to untangle unknown grief, the world's and mine, without ever really understanding that it is not meant to be untangled but explored and experienced. Studied and seen. My heart will be both soothed and scalded, each emotion has a place.

you & me

Celebrate Life: Being Alive, In Itself, Is A Holiday.

For the sake of my kids, and for the sake of my sanity, I brushed a lot of emotion under the table, but it's catching up with me now. I know I still have a long way to go. I know I have a lot of work to do to really start to feel 'normal' again.

poetry

Welcome Home. {poetry}

Home… breaks our hearts into small pieces, so they can reassemble every night And break again and again every morning, while our bodies, astonished, just watch in peace.

happiness

Glow: Finding My Soft Place To Land.

At first, I was too scared to do more than look, then something inside me said, Go for it. Intuitively I knew that if I took this leap of faith, it would get me on the road to forgiveness of all that had gone wrong in my marriage and move me forward in my healing.

smile

12 Ways To Feel Fully Alive In 2016.

Here is a list of 12 ways for this New Year, with which you can bring excitement and passion into your everyday life with the everyday people in it. It’s fun, easy, and I hope it will get your creative juices flowing.

you & me

The Extraordinary Fire Of Being Alive.

There are women who eat stars for breakfast. They stay awake, or don’t sleep at all, simply because there is no use when life is consistently panoramic and kaleidoscopic, and it’s like Fellini’s in the other room never yelling Cut, and maybe John Waters pulled the wool over your eyes because ...

art

Put The Pen Down: Bad Advice From Good Friends.

While I’m becoming more aware of advice's bitter taste, I still find myself chewing some up -- hoping to glean a nugget of wisdom from well-meaning insights people have about me. I mean, God forbid I became one of those guarded girls with her walls up. I want to be oyster-open, to the world, to ...

alive

Instagram