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Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?

This. This question has had my brain churning for months now. I’ve had this rolling around in the back of my head for what must be millennia. Something this basic shouldn’t be so hard- we should just know, right? We’re SUPPOSED to know what makes us tick, what brings us true, deep, everlasting joy.  And then we’re supposed to do it. Or maybe it needs to be hard. Maybe when we get lost, it takes the act of SEEKING to instill the courage and confidence to find ourselves. Because that’s what it is- an ACTION. A doing of a thing, or many things, or a letting go of things. And doing them again. And refining the process, and getting closer to our true self. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” -e.e. cummings What is that thing that keeps pulling and tugging at the back of your brain? That thing you’ve fought because it wasn’t practical, you can’t see how you could pay the bills, didn’t want to lose th...

Love Offering

Write as a gift to yourself and others. Everyone has a story to tell. Writing is not about creating tidy paragraphs that sound lovely or choosing the “right” words. It’s about noticing who you are and noticing life and sharing what you notice. When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone. -Glennon Doyle Melton So here it is: my love offering to the world. My trips and falls, and pick-me-ups, and forward steps all on this journey towards something better- toward my best life. Better physical health, better mental health, better process each day. It’s hard when you don’t know what you don’t know. You screw some things up, and you figure them out and things get better for a while. You can go on that way, thinking, “Hooray, I’m fixed, I’m free! And I never have to worry about that again.” Wrong. And it’s taken me a while to start putting the pieces together. But here’s what I know, righ...