Another’s view

  • What are others hearing you say?

    I feel more inspired by "The Stitch" than I did with the book "Hush".   I ordered 5 Kits  - Speak your silence "Speak Your Silence is a nonprofit on a mission to conquer the stigma of child sexual abuse via #The… Continue reading

  • Fueled By Our Truth

    Elizabeth Gilbert asked to share a photograph of when you felt the most powerful.  It is odd, it isn't the one where your hair was perfect, you body size at its best and the right outfit.   "Generally speaking, the… Continue reading

  • Mosaic Work of Art

    "Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise" Zig Ziglar Today I will find a plate to write my fears. (For Lung Leavin Day ) First I have to seek within to find them. What do I fear? I have thought briefly… Continue reading

  • Fulfilled and Happy

    "In acceptance, we are free to be in the present. Once we have accepted our own true nature and the ways of the universes they are reflected in our world, there is no longer regret about our past, nor is there fear… Continue reading

  • Write Your Fears!

    Today a cancer survivor emailed me asking me if I would be interested in  http://www.mesothelioma.com/heather/lungleavinday"   Her names is Heather Von St. James.  You can read more about her story at http://www.mesothelioma.com/heather/#.VMfJgGR4qFI What she has done annually on the First Saturday… Continue reading

  • Cover Up the Predator.

    A very insightful article about family when it comes to one of their own being accused of sexual abuse.  In my experience what she writes is not uncommon.   http://www.alternet.org/gender/i-understand-why-people-believe-sexual-predators-rather-victims-i-did Not only is not uncommon, but it makes it extremely… Continue reading

  • Worlds Apart.

    The two worlds existing side by each is so remarkable. And the inhabitants of each world speak two different languages and see things completely different. Not like a similar variation or just a bit down the spectrum…but completely different. Where… Continue reading

  • The two lives of you.

    I was listening to a fictional book, "All Fall Down" by Jennifer Weiner and she was writing about a woman who discovered her mother had been an alcoholic for the first time when she was in rehab. She had a… Continue reading

  • Separate Being

    "Codependents go numb by obsessing, controlling and denying."  Melody Beattie "Codependency is subtle, insidious. To recover from chemical dependency, we admit that we're powerless over alcohol. We realize we aren't controlling alcohol; it's controlling us.  Now alcohol was controlling me… Continue reading

  • Relationships will die.

    More about Boundaries….from Melody Beattie.  "It's not a boundary if we can't enforce it."  (Love this line!) AFTER SETTING BOUNDARIES PLAN ON: .being tested to see if we're serious, especially if previous boundaries were empty threats. .feeling "after burn" (guilty)… Continue reading