Sometimes when my partner comes home And has to let himself in He’ll ask, “Why was the door locked?” And I don’t know what to say. Because I’m woman? Because I was home alone, and that’s what you do; You walk with your keys unsheathed And you never leave your drink, or visit the bathroom,…
If you’re like me, you want to do big things that get big results. The reality is that improving your life is not black and white, and you can take small steps right now to incrementally make yourself feel better, one breath at a time. Add up enough little things and they start to make…
I am a raven sat on a streetlight The Watcher As feet trudge by and shadows lengthen into night Time passes; I see all.
I like to play around with words. Forgiveness, in its original and primary sense, refers to the cancellation of a debt. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word comes from for–, (probably meaning in this case “completely,”) and giefan, meaning “to give”. So when you forgive a debt, you basically just change whatever the…
You know better now. It came to me the other night, as all the best thoughts do, while I was drifting between waking and sleep. I am so afraid of the feelings of unworthiness, of being unloved and unwanted, that I often hide in my shell, refusing to take chances. But the truth is that…
Consider this your permission to do the thing.
The trigger isn’t the trauma. For example, a veteran with PTSD might be triggered by loud noises. We understand that the loud noises are associated with the trauma of experiencing a battle or surviving an attack. But the loud noises are not what actually caused the damage; they are just something the brain has associated…
If you’ve never experienced labor, then you have not had the singular experience of going through transition. But transition is the best metaphor for what I am feeling right now, so let me try to explain. Maybe some of you can relate. Transition is the period of labor starting when the woman’s cervix approaches maximum dilation…
So many years I toed the line…
I had a dream one night.
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