Holidays

“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” ~Unknown It’s hard and uncomfortable to sit with pain, our own or someone else’s. We don’t like to see people hurting, especially people we love, because we instinctively want to make them feel better, and we feel powerless if […]

“Staying sober really was the most important thing in my life now and had given me direction when I thought I had none.” ~Bradley Cooper I remember that exact feeling of shame that washed over me when I was filling Yeti water bottles with 100 proof vodka instead of water. Then I chugged it, all

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” ~Najwa Zebian During a personal development course, one of my first assignments was to reach out to three friends and ask them to list my top three qualities. It was to help me see myself the way others saw me. At the time,

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.” ~Martha Graham It seems like only yesterday that I was at home with a newborn, a kindergartener, two dogs, and a husband who, just like me, was working from home, when we were thrown into the unthinkable COVID19 pandemic. It didn’t take long for the stress and tension to

We are all blessed with two birth parents, and if we are lucky one or two of those are positive role models and on board for at least some portion of our lives. If we are really lucky, we may have the good fortune to score another mom or dad figure, someone who appears virtually

“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.” ~Steve Maraboli I used to hate my fear because it scared me. It terrified me that when fear arose, it often felt like it was driving me at full speed toward the edge of a cliff. And if I were driven