My Aunt Jackie went to be with Jesus and all my angels Monday afternoon after a 13-year battle with Ovarian Cancer. She’s my angel now, too. She is my aunt by love and choice not blood. She has been my Aunt Jackie as long as I can remember. Mama and she taught their daughters the
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Beautiful is self-explanatory. There is beauty everywhere in life. Just look out your window sometime if you need reminding. Crazy, on the other hand, means many things. Insanity comes to mind. We’re taught to believe insanity is bad thing. What if it’s not? What if the crazy is absolutely the best part of life we can
I want to wish all my followers in the US a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Please celebrate safely. This year I find myself even more grateful than usual. This has been a very rough year for my blood family and I. In some ways, it feels like this year went by in the blink of
Last week was a rough week both physically and mentally for me. What I want to share with you all the mental struggle I experienced last week. As a so called weird kid, confidence in myself has was hard to come by. However, moving out of my hometown, going to college, and meeting people who
In 2015, when mama was told I was suicidal, again, by a person who did not know me very well I called my brother/journey partner sobbing. What? How are we here again, brother? He talked me down and helped me assure mama that I was more than fine. I just needed to process my surgery
Last week I had a meltdown emotionally. There is no other word for it. I had been feeling really isolated from the people who know me best for a few weeks because we all got busy. The isolation also came from my family still dealing with circumstances that are hard. Thankfully, things are slowly getting
Yesterday was three years since I pushed launch on this blog. This post is a thank you to all the people who have helped make this blog possible. I hope you all will indulge me in these thank you’s and know I mean them from the bottom of my heart. The first goes to God:
I am working on being more comfortable and more vulnerable around the people who love me. My default is to say I am OK when I am not. I do not want to burden anybody with my problems because life is hard for everybody. what I am learning is that by being vulnerable with the
Together is the most important word in my life. It is how I thrive through life well. We are not meant to go through life alone. Community is essential to thriving in for everybody. Why do I think doing life together is so important? Together has gotten me through all of my tough days. Knowing
Today I want to talk about healing from trauma. In this case when I say trauma, I mean emotional trauma. I cannot speak on physical trauma healing because I have never experienced physical trauma, so I am not even going to try. Healing from emotional trauma is in some ways more complicated because it cannot