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I speak my truth to heal. I no longer run from my shadows.

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Awareness & Awakening, Shadow Stories

Behind the Smiles

Social media posts are bastard liars. They show a fraction of the roller coaster of life. I am not always smiling. I am not always confident. I struggle—often. Continue reading Behind the Smiles

SkyeDecember 20, 20222 Comments
Awareness & Awakening, Poetry

Your destination is on the left

I have reached an age where my heroes have become human.
There is a softer kind of magic to believe in now—
That a body can bend
That a heart can turn sour but ripen again
That friendships are meandering, and loyalty sometimes means dormancy and patience. Continue reading Your destination is on the left

SkyeDecember 5, 2022Leave a comment
empowerment

Why is Self-Care So Hard?

We know we’re supposed to make time for it. Heck, most of us say we want to make MORE time for it. Why then does “self care” get pushed to the bottom of our to-do list over and over again? Continue reading Why is Self-Care So Hard?

SkyeSeptember 1, 2022Leave a comment
Awareness & Awakening, Poetry

Another Year? (Birthdays After Forty!)

I see this number in front of me that seems incongruous with my experience. I’m too young to be in my mid-forties already, but I’ve surely lived a dozen lives since I was born. Continue reading Another Year? (Birthdays After Forty!)

SkyeAugust 24, 20221 Comment
Awareness & Awakening, Parenthood, Personal Essay

Bullies at the Pool [Life’s teachers are everywhere]

While at the public pool playing with my 6-year-old daughter, I was splashed full-on in the face by some obnoxious young boys. I yelled out in surprise, “Hey! Careful!” The biggest one turned towards me. “What, it’s just water,” he replied with a sneer. Continue reading Bullies at the Pool [Life’s teachers are everywhere]

SkyeJune 30, 20221 Comment
Awareness & Awakening, Poetry

Cat Black Coffee

I have always been a thinker, an analyzer, a dreamer, a ruminator. Perhaps you can relate! Continue reading Cat Black Coffee

SkyeJune 9, 2022Leave a comment
Awareness & Awakening, Poetry

How to be a Butterfly – A Step by Step Guide

There are those who fly and those who crawl. There are those who imagine futures beyond the curvature of a horizon and those who don’t. Continue reading How to be a Butterfly – A Step by Step Guide

SkyeMay 12, 2022May 12, 2022Leave a comment
empowerment

Interrupting Patterns

Wake up, think anxious thoughts, feel stressed, reach for numbing ‘tool’ (such as wine or food), thoughts quieted, fall asleep…wake up, think more anxious thoughts (+ shame for numbing again), feel stressed…and so on.
Sound familiar? Continue reading Interrupting Patterns

SkyeMay 4, 20222 Comments
Awareness & Awakening, empowerment

Sense of Urgency! [Living your best life]

Far too often we approach our days with drudgery – a series of mundane tasks that need to be slogged through in order to reach the sweet spot of pajamas and slumber (often prefaced by a glass or two of wine). Continue reading Sense of Urgency! [Living your best life]

SkyeApril 19, 20222 Comments
Awareness & Awakening, Poetry

Feet & Frontal Lobe: We are Capable of More than We Think

As I sink into my couch, inert and irritable once again, I read, over and over, this poem I wrote a few days ago. I know the words are trying to tell me something, but whatever-it-is keeps swirling out of reach. Continue reading Feet & Frontal Lobe: We are Capable of More than We Think

SkyeApril 10, 20222 Comments

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Reading poems with my dear friend (and book illustrator) @cheryllizalive last night at The Workshop
I’m feeling this lately.
When you are uncertain, when things seem impossible, when life appears stalled—invite LOVE to take over.
There are days when staying in comfy clothes and drinking tea by the fire is about as productive as you want to get.
Please remember—here in America—this is not just a day off of school.
I have gratitude for the words, the way they move through me with their healing hands and rub soft my spiky self-criticism.

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