How do you handle difficult emotions? Do you allow yourself to feel them, sit with them, move through them or do you ignore them and hope they will go away? Maybe you replace them with positive thoughts? I used to try and hide from mine, particularly when I was in my...
Release the need for perfection. Why? I thought perfection kept me safe. During my fertility struggle, I was striving for perfection, for my happily ever after – the husband, the white picket fence, the 2.5 kids. Each month I was not pregnant my internal negative...
Thanks to everyone that responded to my survey last month. I loved hearing from all of you. I thought you would be interested in a summary of the results: Question: Where are you on your fertility path? Responses: 37% - Made the decision to live childfree 18% - Trying...
Recently, I’ve noticed I feel uncomfortable after writing sections for my book. At first, I chalked it up to sometimes writing is just freaking hard to do, so of course I would feel uncomfortable. However, it started happening more and more, and I wanted to figure out...
Recently I started working with a new dog trainer. My dogs are great, but we kind of slacked with our younger dog, Willie, and needed some help. Willie came into our family during lockdown, so we didn't do a good job of socializing him. Because of this, he tends to...
I was on a video call with a group of women who identify as empaths. It was the first time we were meeting. It was a very casual, laid-back format. We started with an ice breaker, introduced ourselves, and shared experiences, books, and thoughts about being highly...
After listening to some episodes of the podcast Mortified, which features adults sharing the embarrassing things they wrote as kids. I decided to look through some of my old journals. I came across some entries from when I was in my mid-20s. It was interesting to...