The danger of living someone else’s life rarely arrives as a sudden catastrophe. More often, it arrives as a quiet, chronic numbness. A subtle friction from wearing a path never shaped for your feet. We watch what others are building, what they are loving, how they are moving through the world, and envy whispers a… Continue reading Till Your Soil
Many people, when asked about the moments that had the greatest singular impact on their lives, will talk about the most difficult situations. Those situations required us to unearth strength and stamina we hadn't tapped before. They are the junctures that swept away our settled plans, threw us off course, and compelled us to begin… Continue reading Pushed to Bloom
For the last several years I've felt like the universe has had a giant hand behind me, flicking away any potential suitors that arrive within my sphere. Those elusive people who not only like me, but pique my interest as well, have shown up in my periphery to tease me with qualities, traits, and a… Continue reading Answer the Phone
Detach. I saw this word three times in three different capacities over a period of fifteen minutes. It’s not a word I’ve come across often, especially not within such a short time frame. So, me, being me, I had to take it as a sign from the universe to… well… detach. So I thought about… Continue reading Detach
Why does the brain remember a ten-year-old workplace mortification in perfect detail, but let the sweet, quiet archives of a lifelong friendship blur at the edges? A rattling bathroom door handle sends me down the rabbit hole of how our minds catalog the moments that make us.
This is a question that occasionally wanders into the quiet corridors of my thoughts: Am I truly healed, or are my wounds just comfortably dormant? There is a certain kind of peace that comes with being alone. When no one is disappointing you, misunderstanding you, asking anything of you, or touching the places that still… Continue reading The Feeling is Real. The Story May Not Be.
When I revisit old writing, it’s like unearthing a time capsule. It has been a while since I last reflected on my gap-toothed smile and the little girl who thought she needed to fix it. My front gap was once large enough to fit a nickel and a dime pressed together. I know this because… Continue reading The Time Capsule: My Gap-Toothed Smile
Relationships can be minefields. As every one of us is a unique individual, it can be difficult to truly understand the people around us. Their views can be so drastically different from our own as to be incomprehensible. This isn’t necessarily wrong or bad. It’s just that we’re standing and looking a different way, seeing… Continue reading Relationship Minefields
Our mind is a powerful tool. We can sit and ponder the intricacies of the universe, the inner workings of the human heart, and the deeper meaning of life itself. We can imagine. Create. Solve. Understand. We can use our minds to make meaning of this strange and beautiful experience of being human. More often,… Continue reading Getting Out of My Head
Some lessons return to us again and again. Boundaries. Self worth. How to love without losing ourselves. How to receive. Maybe growth isn’t leaving these lessons behind, but meeting them differently each time.
