Category: Healing from Trauma

A Friendly Universe?

09/29/2024

Is the Universe friendly? I’m not so sure. As I continue to navigate loss and uncertainty like everyone else, my experience has deemed...

Teach Only Love: The Art of Truth & Learning

04/23/2023

Recently I have been working through some unresolved emotional blocks from my past. It has been one of the hardest things I have...

Riding the Waves of Resistance Towards Healing

02/05/2023

Have you ever committed to something and it looks awesome in the moment, but then when the time arrives to actually do it,...

A Hug in a Mug

12/11/2022

Besides pouring loads of self-compassion into my being, one of the best ways I have found to ground myself is by having a...

The Truth We Hold Within

11/13/2022

Whether it is cultural, familial, or some combination of both, it becomes second nature for many of us to not trust ourselves. Until...

The Healing Will Follow (UPDATED LINK!)

10/26/2022

On this path towards wholeness, which really is about revealing to ourselves that we are already whole, forward progress sometimes halts. In our...

I’m All In (This Is for You)

10/23/2022

Somehow a long time ago I believed I was broken and unlovable. Therefore I attacked my healing journey with this conviction of ‘fixing’...

Comforting

10/17/2022

   

Body & Mind: A Hurricane Story

10/02/2022

As Ian made landfall leaving destruction in its wake, we were uncertain of the impact on our little northeast island cove. When life...

Below the Surface

09/18/2022

HERE ARE 11 OTHER BELOW-THE-SURFACE TRUTHS: 1. I am a stay-at-home mom that does not like to cook or clean. I’m in no...

A Friendly Universe?

Is the Universe friendly? I’m not so sure. As I continue to navigate loss and uncertainty like...

A Hug in a Mug

Besides pouring loads of self-compassion into my being, one of the best ways I have found to...

The Truth We Hold Within

Whether it is cultural, familial, or some combination of both, it becomes second nature for many of...

Below the Surface

HERE ARE 11 OTHER BELOW-THE-SURFACE TRUTHS: 1. I am a stay-at-home mom that does not like to...

The Myth of Londolozi

This essay was written after our return from South Africa in the summer of 2019. It is...

Decorate Your Elephant

“There’s the door.” Thus began one of the most humiliating break-up stories of my college career. This...