Do you have old friends that if you met in present time you probably would not become friends? Do you stay friends with them even though you no longer have much in common other than your past? When I was in the depths of my fertility struggle and my girlfriend was...
Do you have someone in your life that needs fixing, that could really really use your help? That if they listened to you and just did what you said . . . they would feel better? As I typed that out, I knew it sounded a bit silly, but this is what I was doing with my...
I was in Arizona this past month to celebrate my niece’s baby shower. My sister did a great job getting everything organized. I would be lying if I said there wasn’t a twinge of sadness that came up for me, but I felt like I was able to acknowledge it, feel it and let...
A good friend of mine called the other day. She was feeling overwhelmed by finances and wanted to discuss her options with me. As soon as she started talking I could instantly feel how heightened her energy was. I simply listened, allowing her...
I was not a very nice wife the other day. I apologized and we talked it out, but it was still bothering me. I decided to write about it, in order to process it. It was Sunday morning and I ran to the store to pick up a couple of items we were missing to make...
I've hit another level of healing. Let me explain. Dave and I were invited to a friends house for dinner the other night. There were two other couples and their children, ages 2, 5 and 7. It was great and we had a lot of fun, but as we were driving home Dave and I had...
The other day I was cleaning out my emails, and I came across a very old email from a former best friend and it got me thinking about how my friendships have changed over time. The gist of the email was how, at the time, I was a bad friend and how my friend felt that...
Relationships - sometimes they are great and sometimes they are not so great. Are you nodding your head up and down with me? For example, they can fill us with happiness, joy, pleasure, love, excitement or sadness, grief, stress, fear, and anger - to name just a few...
“The purpose of my life is to let things go.” This has been my mantra lately. It was something that Michael Singer, author of the Untethered Soul discussed in a video I recently watched. This mantra has stuck with me. “The purpose of my life is to let things go.” I...
I was looking at past journal entries at a time when I was struggling and felt stuck in life. I noticed how at the beginning of many of those entries I would write about how I may be hiding from my emotions - from how I was really feeling, which at the time was sad,...
Have you ever been in a situation where someone in your life will not communicate with you - no matter how hard you try? I am going through this right now. There is someone in my life that I love dearly, whom I have tried to reach out to many times, but have received...