5 Things About Healing You Don’t Know
I have always loved the idea of the hero’s journey. I love the idea of the adventurer going off on a quest, overcoming a series of challenges, and coming home completely transformed. If you’re a literature nerd like me, you’ll know Odysseus didn’t become a hero overnight. Rather, it required him to overcome many obstacles […]
How to Begin Healing from Old Emotional Wounds
We live in a society that is much more focused on mental health and wellness. When I was in school, we didn’t talk about mental health. If you were diagnosed with anything, you kept it quiet. We did not even discuss it with friends. We were raised by a generation that decided you just didn’t […]
No One is Worth Ruining Your Peace
My 12 year old’s favorite advice I’ve ever given her is “no one is worth ruining your peace.” It resonated so deeply with her that I’ve heard her relay the same information to several of her friends over the last few months. The best part is that it can be applied to any situation, no […]
The Best Dog to Ever Live
As an animal lover, you can never love someone as much as you love your pet. The love you feel for that pet cannot compare to the love you have for a friend or even a family member. We let friends into our lives to enjoy our company. We may invite them over to our […]
Anything You Enjoy Doing is Not Time Wasted
I have a friend who plays video games almost every day. She plays them maybe an hour each day from what I know, and longer if she’s under stress because playing them helps her to relax. I can relate because I, too, play video games. Instead of trying to see where she’s coming from or […]
Let Them: How to Successfully Get Your Power Back
Whenever my family and I go somewhere, we get a lot of stares. We are not a “traditional-looking” family. My husband has tattoos, I have tattoos and a septum ring, Tegan has a mohawk and Lilly wears a wolf tail and wolf ears. Pair all of this with the fact that Jay and I swear […]
Shadow Work: How to Use it to Make Yourself Whole
I am sitting at a red light a few weeks ago, on my way back from Walmart. My kids are in the backseat playing. The sun is shining, and I’m calm, which is a feeling that I don’t get to experience often. The second the light turns green, the guy behind me lays down on […]
Go Love Yourself
“You can’t love someone until you love yourself.” Take a second to check in with yourself and assess how that quote made you feel. For a lot of people, it offends them, and with the way everyone tends to interpret it, for a good reason. I spoke recently to a friend who told me that […]
Being Borderline: Between the Lines
I will go ahead and give ya’ll a warning: this post may be triggering to some people, and not just people with Borderline Personality Disorder. If you have any mental illness or disorder, it could be triggering. I’ve wanted to do a post on being Borderline for a while now, but I never really knew […]
Make Yourself Uncomfortable for Growth
Good evening, readers! I hope everybody’s week has been great. I have some food for thought tonight. I say to be kind a lot, especially to my kids. They can usually say it before I even get the words out of my mouth because if they get angry at someone or frustrated with something and […]