Holidays

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” ~Brené Brown A few years ago, when I began recovering from childhood trauma, the first thing I learned was that I needed to master the skill of self-awareness. However, becoming aware came with […]

“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.” ~Eckhart Tolle When my mother told me, “Honey, you don’t understand; you can’t,” initially I felt like she was being condescending. It was Mother’s Day and, unbeknownst to me, the last time I’d see her before her final hospital visit. We’d

“Grief is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ~Jamie Anderson I knew my son

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” ~Roberto Assagioli When I was a little girl, I used to wonder what my father was like. Was he a nice man? What did he look like? Did he think about me? Did he love me? But, above all I wondered why

“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.” ~Danielle Orner I was slumped against a wall at Oxford Circus Station early one Sunday evening when an irritated male voice suddenly barked, “MOVE!” Moments beforehand, I had lost my vision. Without conscious

“Your body does not need to be fixed, because your body is not a problem. Your body is a person.” ~Jamie Lee Finch I was thirty years old when I realized that I was completely dissociated from my body. I grew up in the height of the purity culture movement in American Evangelicalism. Purity culture

“Slow, soulful living is all about coming back to your truth, the only guidance you’ll ever need. When you rush, you have the tendency to follow others. When you bring in mindfulness, you have the power to align with yourself.” ~Kris Franken Codependency previously created a lot of pain and agony in my life. One of

“It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world.” ~Eckhart Tolle Life is hard. Impenetrable at times. How can we use our spirituality to navigate through the density of life? That question inspired this piece of writing. And my navigation tool is almost effortless; I feel compelled to share it. When my mind