No one teaches us how to feel. Not the real way. We’re spit out into the world like emotional little androids—screaming, blinking, “Hello, world?”—and expected to function. Expected to swallow grief like vitamins and stack trauma like it’s laundry. And it is always laundry day. Emotions don’t go away. They wait. Like socks in theContinue reading “Emotional Laundry: the Truth Beneath the Grime”
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Relationships and Growth-Inspired Communication
I am trying to communicate something in these posts by speaking my truths. I believe my truth is important because it meshes with other’s truths when I get down and dirty and communicate one on one. Why doesn’t everyone communicate this way? Share ideas about important topics? Most importantly, why don’t we communicate our needs?Continue reading “Relationships and Growth-Inspired Communication”
Love: Understanding What You’re Giving and Expecting to Receive.
Let’s go back to the beginning of our lives again…to birth. The love we receive will have an influence over the love we learn to give, don’t you think? We aren’t born with an innate desire to love; we learn from what we receive in our early years. How was love modeled for us whenContinue reading “Love: Understanding What You’re Giving and Expecting to Receive.”
Hooking Up with All of Me
Why bother going deep inside to those lonely, beaten, threadbare parts? Isn’t it better to leave well-enough alone? Bury them? Ignore them? Yes, we know they’re there, but why stir up the pain? Some people seem to be afraid of becoming overwhelmed; others, men especially, speak of these parts as though they are weak andContinue reading “Hooking Up with All of Me”
Welcoming, Loving and Trusting my Inner System
Once I was able to access my Self, my true essence (the topic of my last blog, “In Relationship with My SELF”), I was able to respond to the hurt and damaged parts of my inner system. Yes, these are the parts we often try to cut off and out. We bury them, consider themContinue reading “Welcoming, Loving and Trusting my Inner System”
In Relationship With My SELF
To begin with mySelf is the only way to start. Who can I know best? Myself. I know my mind, my body and my soul. No one else knows me like I can come to know myself. And it is a journey, an exploration into all the facets of my being. It scares me, butContinue reading “In Relationship With My SELF”
Giving Life to my DREAMS
I have too much and too little to say. So much that it’s difficult to organize; so little, that I question its importance. How can so much become so little? It shrinks between my brain, my fingers and the page; weeding ideas isn’t a fluid motion; it is choppy, sloppy and sometimes, fruitless–as it hasContinue reading “Giving Life to my DREAMS”
Life's Lessons and Mental Health 