Examples of an Imperfect woman

  • A Caring Ear.

    “Healing the Wounded Child Within” by Charles L. Whitfield MD.  Story Telling as part of the healing process, he writes.   “Telling our story is a powerful act in discovering and healing our Child Within.  It is a foundation of… Continue reading

  • Caught

    One last section from ‘Sickened’…by Julie Gregory.   Spring thaws the farmhouse, and in front of the mirrors, my breasts begin to form. They get white, tigerlike stretch marks on their sides from a burst of growth.  My hipbones expand… Continue reading

  • Keeper of their Illusions.

    One more part that really stayed with me from Sickened by Julie Gregory.   “I now feel ready to try and talk to a therapist again.  Most times I do not feel like a client, but an educator who pays… Continue reading

  • Sickened

    Here is another few lines from “Sickened” by Julie Gregory.   “I lived my life in a bubble. First it was her bubble. Then it was of my own making.  And now, freshly stripped of the delusion that had protectively… Continue reading

  • Perfections of Me.

    I think trying to define love is like trying to define our unique personalities; we all have a love definition, which we formed through our experiences in life.   Love for me is on the inside and is more about… Continue reading

  • Steps towards mine.

    My online conversations with family are so enlightening and disturbing, confusing and clear, and they show me who they are, and how they see me.   What continues to surprise me is that they hold me up to an unattainable… Continue reading

  • Looking at her…

    I went online and did some reading on the statistics and reseach on pedophiles, for some reason I hadn’t done this before.   Pedophile. The word comes from the Greek: παιδοφιλία (paidophilia): παῖς (pais), "child" and φιλία (philia), "friendship".  … Continue reading

  • My Mother’s eyes.

    Misperception of our environment is the key that turns your body into dis-ease.    A misperception of the world is the cause and the spread dis-ease.   Again going back to the two different perceptions of our world between my… Continue reading

  • Being imperfect has set me free….

      “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”               Martin Luther King   ‘…the silence of our friends’… it’s the silence that keeps gnawing at me. … Continue reading

  • The Silent Aunt who disappeared….

    “He couldn’t not know what he knew; he couldn’t not see once he saw.”   Patti Digh   It hit me today in yoga, that what I am witnessing in my great niece is Me.   Me as a newborn baby… Continue reading