It can't be forced to stay, when it wants to go. We can only do our best, while it visits, to let Love... feel the love! "This being human is a guest house"... Let the guest room of your life be a place worth staying, for Love. Let it be sunny, breezy, playful, expansive, and …
Category: Emotional & Relational Life
To be instead of to seem
The way of moving forward that comes only from the head is two-dimensional, and will no longer work. It used to work better than it works now. For some people, it is still working. For others, it is being shown to be problematic. We are waking up into a new way of being. It is …
Longing to blossom into more of myself
What a journey, life. What a year so far! It started with the breakup! I mean, really, wow! I didn't see it coming, I wasn't ready for it... and yet, it is now done, and life is moving on, and slowly I am reimagining this life and my place in it. There are moments of …
Musing on the breakup from the beach
Breakups are hard. Part of me is here, and happy to be here; part of me reaches toward the reality I just left, aches for the comfortable and the familiar. There was a stability in that structure; I built myself on top of it for four years; now I must rebuild from the ground, of …
I don’t know what comes next, I only know what comes now
It is January 4, 2019. I'm sitting at home on the couch. I've been reading, journaling, petting the house cats, thinking, feeling. So many feelings the past few days. So much processing. I broke a 55-hour dry fast with water this morning. I'm holding a water fast for now, maybe through the weekend, maybe longer. …
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Make Friends with Fear
Fear is an opportunity to change your mind. At the first moment you feel fear, envisioning an upcoming challenge, or something that would be out of your comfort zone, for instance... your mind wants to turn and look at the possibilities for what could go wrong. In that moment, you have another option, and it …
Voting Like a Real Adult
November 2nd, 2018. Day 2 of my month-long personal writing challenge. Today I stepped my adult game up and voted in the midterm elections for my first time. I took time away from other things to look into what would be on the ballot. I read some things, made some decisions, and showed up to …
A rambling story about an IUD, feelings, womanhood, fertility, fear, and vulnerability
*** content warning: explicit description of female anatomy, allusions to sexuality, and honest emotional expression included in this piece *** This is a story of something small that happened, something truly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, something that could have just fallen into my past to be forgotten by all but me… but …
Creation, impulse, writing, eating, moving [free write / poetry]
I spend too much time in my head. Every time I am "thinking" I should just write. I think I used to do that, and the habit has been lost from me somehow. Maybe my demons tried to take it from me. ... Time flies by and in some moments I am a swirling mess, …
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What are you doing with your life? … a response. For parents, grandparents, friends, strangers, whoever.
My soul is on a healing and experiential journey. My priority is to follow that and enjoy the ride along the way. I am not currently concerning myself too much with my "success" by society's standards. That is a black hole of negative self-talk for me and takes me away from feeling my way forward. …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 