When I chose my WORD for 2019, I didn’t anticipate the tender layers that would have to be stripped from me to reveal my most “natural” self. I wanted to live truthfully, but as it turned out, my “truth” involved a lot of loss, unresolved grief, and generational trauma.
Read MoreA few years ago, I sat down with a psychic and he told me that in a past life I was a...
Read MoreOn an early morning in December, I lit a candle and spoke a promise out into the ether:
“I will not keep you out of my life.”
I repeated it like a mantra, over and over, to my father,
wherever he was.
As it turns out, he was right there with me, and he has been the whole time.
Read MoreSometimes the body will feel like an empty shell, or...
Read MoreI finished this book yesterday. Reading it made me feel like I was gaining some ground to stand on, during a time when I felt as if I was free-falling through the space between me and my lost father.
Read MoreI’ve been in hibernation since the last full moon, after visiting my father’s grave.
I’ve been...
Read MoreOn January 19th, 1982, I lost my father.
He was 19.
I was six months old.
I wasn’t of an age to grieve.
I wasn’t of an age to mourn.
But I’ve carried the sadness with me all this time.
Read MoreThis writing prompt asks you to let go of any pressure you may feel about what you think you should be writing, and instead write from exactly, literally, where you are. It’s a practical and effective way to get the pen moving, even when you don’t know where to begin.
Read MoreI began 2018 with a lot of question marks. I felt restless, and wanted a change. The problem was, I didn't know what to change. I started a page in my journal titled "How I Want 2018 to Feel," and left it blank. I didn't know the answer.
I was antsy though, so I just started changing things, because they say that unless you change…
A year or returning.
That’s how this feels, as I inhale and exhale in a prolonged Downward Facing Dog, wondering why I spent 2018 resisting…
Read MoreWhether or not you’re a resolution maker, it’s hard not to be moved by the “fresh start'“ feeling the new year brings. If you’re sensing that impulse to start the year in a new and meaningful way…
Read MoreI've tried it all, but none of it has really mattered as much as when I started forgiving.
Read MoreThis grapefruit and lemon green tea is a great way to jumpstart your morning (and your metabolism) on an otherwise gloomy or sluggish day. Or, you can make it rain or shine every day, like…
Read MoreThe first time I heard Dolores O’Riordan was on a mixtape a friend had given me. I was in 7th grade. I was lonely and awkward. I was a novel-reading, grunge-listening, ballet-dancing smarty pants, laying on the floor of my bedroom, headphones on, listening to the…
Read MoreI started to realize how much I really liked him the day he convinced me to skip class to go to the beach with him…
Read MoreI found Tom Robbins at a moment in my life when I was lonely and broke; a very green, yet very disillusioned young dreamer, sharing a too-small apartment with a furniture hoarder and a…
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