Still Beautiful

“BECAUSE TRUE BELONGING ONLY HAPPENS WHEN WE PRESENT OUR AUTHENTIC, IMPERFECT SELVES TO THE WORLD, OUR SENSE OF BELONGING CAN NEVER BE GREATER THAN OUR LEVEL OF SELF-ACCEPTANCE.” Brene Brown, The gifts of Imperfection    ...

Dear Friends,    I’ve been thinking of you… and I do hope you’re managing this new way of being in the world.  Possibly you don’t think you are… and if that’s the case, I’m sending a big bouquet, to offer support and hope for better days ahead.  In the meantime, if I...

Many of us are cut off from our pain.  Shown for years that it had no place, no value, so why bother. We were taught to button-up and dim it down because those emotions/actions made others uncomfortable.  We suppressed, disconnected and shamed a part of ourselves to...

Parent Better Than You Were Parented… And Then Some

By no means am I here to lecture or teach the art of parenting. I am, after all, not an expert. I’m a mother in training. I have had many lows as a mom, too many to count and many highs, which I’ve also lost count of. All have taught me greatly. The best...

Tree

Meet Tree, named and painted by my 18 year daughter.  I’m celebrating this painting on so many levels. Let me tell you why. It’s 15 days into Covid 19 and my daughter (who’s quite the socializer) is starting to climb the walls, desperately looking...