Eleven years ago today, I got sick. The emotional effects didn’t hit me till weeks later, but today was the day it started – 11pm at night, suddenly awake and feeling ill. And then that feeling just never going away. It’s been a long road to the place where I am now. Last year felt [...]
Category Archives: Healing Emotional Wounds
Come on, show me your light.
November 18, 2011 – 8:37 am
(I wrote this months ago and filed it away in a random folder on my computer, titled “Manifesto”. I just found it again and knew I had to share it.) I believe that there is a light inside of you, just waiting to shine. I believe that there is something inside you, dying to thrive. [...]
Permission to fail, granted.
April 12, 2011 – 11:20 am
Five weeks ago, I began the process of healing my body and mind from past sexual abuse. Some people in the comments have assumed it happened as a child. It didn’t. It happened 5 years ago. I was incredibly naive and had no idea what was happening to me or how to explain it. I [...]
Walk it off.
April 5, 2011 – 10:43 am
Usually I’m a yoga person. I love stretching my body and feeling myself fall into happy alignment. I get an annoyingly chipper post-yoga high. It usually involves skipping. But lately, as I heal from the sexual abuse in my past, I’ve found myself less and less inclined to hit the mat. The days stretched [...]
Sometimes backwards is the right way to go
March 18, 2011 – 9:19 am
I’ve had a few people look at me cockeyed since announcing on Wednesday that I was going to back off of my self-promotion efforts because of my healing process. “So what you’re trying to tell me is, that even though you need $18,000 to get to France this summer, you’re going to stop promoting your [...]
How to promote yourself while falling apart emotionally.
March 16, 2011 – 9:52 am
So I’m just going to out and say it: Things have not been pretty here at S. M. Lacy Art headquarters the past few weeks. Quite frankly, I’m sort of falling apart. I leave for France 2 months today. Which is all kinds of fabulous and terrifying at once. Mostly fabulous. Except for the part [...]
The Sunday Hug: You’re stronger than you think
February 20, 2011 – 12:44 pm
I had a mind blowing epiphany and shift yesterday and I really wanted to share it with you, in case it might help you reframe something painful from your own life. I’ve spent the last 5 years walking around with a whole ton of guilt and shame from the abuse of a previous relationship. The [...]
I decide to paint & talk – don’t try this at home, kids.
February 18, 2011 – 5:16 pm
I’ve been super busy this week but really wanted to post something to the blog, so decided to make a video! I actually decided to paint and talk. Possibly not my best idea ever. I’m not even sure if there’s a point to this video at all. I sort of ramble. And by sort of, [...]
Unraveling Beauty
February 10, 2011 – 11:17 am
I have my modeling audition today. I’m not really nervous anymore. (What’s the worst that can happen? They say no? Big whoop. I’m more worried I’ll put my foot in my mouth, or faceplant it.) There are a lot of tangled threads here that I’m still working out. Thread #1 – The Idea that I [...]
