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 [...]
Now that I’ve finished the application to study in France, there’s suddenly a lot of empty space in my head. And since nature abhors a vacuum, it’s being filled with the clamoring of things that wish to be healed. You’ll recall that I took September off on retreat and that was good. It helped me [...]
When the world comes crashing down on your head, the absolute first thing we always want to do is make it go away. And can you blame us? It sucks – why on earth would we want to keep it around? Particularly any reminders of it. Get rid of those too. Get rid of everything [...]
So it’s probably about time that we talked about the gigantic pink elephant in the room. You know, that one. That one where we talk about the fact that I’ve almost completely stopped painting? Yeah, that one. I keep starting again and then stopping. If I do paint, it’s only ever for an hour, maybe [...]
The name “Happy Hour Fridays” is starting to get morbidly ironic now. It’s almost ridiculous. Alright, let’s get a rundown of this week. Another big realization Because it seems like I can’t go a day without having one. My big thing, my big trigger, is shame. I mean, I kind of knew that, part of [...]
I’m not going to have a list of awesome things today. I had a huge, gigantic, crazy-but-probably-totally-obvious-to-anyone-who-knows-me revelation about myself this morning, and I kind of need to talk about it right now, because I’m still trying to make sense of it. I give myself away. I spoke the other day about how I often [...]
Warning: This is me being incredibly vulnerable. Go easy on me. I’m crying right now. I don’t really know how that happened, but I seem to be crumbling again, for the third time in 4 days. I feel like I’m running in circles. I try, and I try, and I try and I seem to [...]
