Photo by Aleksandr Barsukov on Unsplash It’s important to share our stories. No matter where we are at, or whatever it is we’re experiencing or going through, we are never alone. Our stories create bridges, showing others in the midst of chaos a way out. Words have the ability to link and unite. So often, though, people bite… Continue reading Shared Stories
Life changes. Sometimes you rail against these changes, denying them and fighting them. Trying to bargain and trade to get back whatever it is you’ve lost. I have found myself in this space. Begging for second chances, swearing I’ll change myself to fit a mold and ideal of someone else. Just so they’ll want me.… Continue reading The Space Left Behind
Peace comes when my mind, body, heart, and willpower are all in alignment - whole and undivided. Only when this happens will I act from a place of sovereign discernment, clarity, and connection to my innermost self. This is what it means for me to flow with integrity.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/COIXqPPH5Lj/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Emotional exposure is terrifying. I can't be the only one that does everything in my power to attempt to control it? To refine, diminish, and play small in order to avoid potential pain In order to regulate vulnerability? Something wonderful comes into my life and I shrug my shoulders at it in mock 'mehness',… Continue reading Emotional Exposure
True meaningful connection, I believe - friend - can only happen when people are able to show up as authentic versions of themselves, ready to let go of any sort of need of other to fulfill or satisfy any inner shortcoming or longing.
There is a wonderful feeling in calling people and things into your life which encourage you to bloom. But, what happens when you feel yourself starting to wither and the signs arrive telling you that it's time to let something go?
We hold ourselves hostage in so many areas of our lives. Locking ourselves away in mental prisons. Prisons erected within our own minds, carefully built stone by stone from the wreckage of the failures of our past, the heavy stones of overwhelming anxiety that comes from the things we cannot change, and mortar of debilitation caused by the unknown.
