Photo by Porapak Apichodilok on Pexels.com We are all aware of the idea of karma, wether we choose to believe in it or not. Every belief system has a version of it such as “What comes around goes around”, “What you put into the world is what you get back” or “do unto others as... Continue Reading →
Have a New Year Without the Anxiety
Photo by Boris Pavlikovsky on Pexels.com So the New Year has just begun (Happy New Year everyone!) and already my life is filling to overflowing! Moving, trips, goals, graduations, birthdays, anniversaries and on it goes. I am a list maker and so when I sat down to create my list of goals and all the... Continue Reading →
Got to Break Free
So many voices inside our heads: mothers, fathers, preachers, teachers, etc. They are all there advising us how to live our best lives. Everyone seems to know just what we should do yet most of them aren't doing it themselves. That's probably because they are listening to the many voices in their heads too. My... Continue Reading →
The Way Out is Through
Photo by Craig Adderley on Pexels.com Every trauma we suffer has two major possible components: pain and emotional pain. It can have one or the other, and it can have both. After that traumatic events are all made up of the variable details: who, what, where, when, why and then all of the hidden sensory... Continue Reading →
Freedom Brings Happiness
Let me start by saying that this article is in no way a political statement or discussion. There are those who are far better equipped than I for that conversation. If that was what you were looking for you need read no further. Enjoy the personal freedom, which is what I will be talking about,... Continue Reading →
Lessons by the Sea
Wandering through Pinterest I came across this beautiful poem by Bernadette Noll. It really resonated with me while bringing back so many lovely memories of time spent by the ocean with people I love. I liken my sifting through Pinterest to sifting through the sand by the sea. I am always looking for those wonderful... Continue Reading →
Just do it!
It is time to tell the voices of your history to shut it! Yes, I said shut it. Somewhere in our lifetime, there was some thing we wanted to do. Some thing maybe we wanted to be. Then we started letting everyone else tell us who, what, how, why and when to be anything, everything.... Continue Reading →
“I Hate Confrontation”
According to Oxford Dictionary confrontation is: A hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties. Based on that definition, agreed, I hate confrontation. However, confrontation should not be confused with disagreement. A disagreement is when we don't see eye to eye on a subject. It becomes a confrontation when it escalates into loud voices,... Continue Reading →
Insight into an Introvert
As the saying goes, it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. We take it all in. We see and hear quite a bit. We carefully choose the conversations to involve ourselves in. If we’re comfortable with you, we’ll get into incredibly deep conversations with you. We have difficulty in crowds as there... Continue Reading →
Weathering our storms
Yesterday was not a good day if we're judging by mood. I woke up cranky. Everything was annoying. Even my walk didn't make the difference that it usually does. I was just in a dark and foul mood. I was dealing with some heavy baggage from my past. I didn't realize it until later in... Continue Reading →