Photo by Sora Shimazaki on Pexels.com Because my husband is very much a creature of habit and routine, I cannot get him to switch off the morning news. He just wants to check in at the very start of the day and spend about 30 minutes or so just catching up on what’s happening locally …
Your Beliefs Don’t Make You A Better Person
Photo by Dimitry Zub on Pexels.com I want to share with a few observations around our beliefs and how we seem to be wielding them around quite a bit. We’re all doing it on some level. Let’s take a step back and inspect them from a place of neutrality and hopefully, a solid dose of …
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When People Show You Who They Really Are
Photo by JESSICA TICOZZELLI on Pexels.com I am having a lot of thoughts after last week’s TX freeze that resulted in massive power outages and a water crisis for millions of humans, untold damage from burst pipes, and most tragic of all, loss of life. At this time, we don’t really know the entire scope …
Dancing With Depression: A Perspective
Photo by Jackson David on Pexels.com I want to dive into depression today. In fact, I’d like to try a different approach with it because it’s a topic that we all tend to dance around. I have had a close and toxic relationship with depression over my lifetime and I now have a new perspective. …
What Do You Think They’ll Think? People Pleasing 101
I've noticed my son saying, "No, I'll look stupid," in response to so many simple requests lately. It has been a bit of an awakening to realize that he cares so much about how other people see him. There are times I'm fascinated in my observation of the lengths we humans will go to in …
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The Power of Belief and Binary Mindset
I want to explore the power of belief because it really does drive so much of our daily behaviors. In so many areas, really. Also, through a lot of the conversations I’ve been having lately, I’ve noticed this binary mindset. I consulted the all-knowing Google to fetch a definition so we can hold that in …
Find Love in Your Shadows
Sometimes we find it so much easier to give love and compassion to others that we can’t even see the darkness inside of ourselves. As long as we are projecting outward, we don’t have to take a look inside. I’ve also learned that there is a strange comfort in the shadows…because we know them well. …
Pandemic Anxiety
As our nation begins to slowly reopen state by state, I’m noticing a new flavor of heightened anxiety within our society. I find it fascinating. There appear to be two distinct camps with varying shades in between. There’s the Return to Normal camp that holds the belief that we should be able to go anywhere …
The Guilt That Drags You Down
For the month of May, it has been my goal to tackle the topics of some of the most difficult emotions that we face. I thought it would be easier than it has been. Quite honestly, I've had to dig for the "best of the worst", so to speak. It's true that I could just …
Why This Feels Like Survival Mode
During this pandemic, there is no shortage of opinion or meme to convey what we should be doing with our time away from our daily grinds – for those of us who have the momentary pause, that is. Certainly, there are different impacts across the board. I saw a writing earlier by an unknown author …
Sunny and Raw 