Examples of an Imperfect woman

  • What gives you life?

    "What gives you life?" asked Barbara Brown Taylor. What a great question!   Or, what makes you feel lifeless? What does your soul need? What are you thirsty or hungry for? On Sunday morning I was down sewing and I… Continue reading

  • Don’t Turn Her Away.

    I think there is a part of us, who thinks we can distance ourself from our self; our past and our experiences AND that we can do this and do that to 'be healed'…which is another word 'to separate from… Continue reading

  • Invalid

    It seems to me we are lacking the venacular for those of us who are estranged from families due to abuse.  We lack new words that carry the correct meanings.  We are left with old words that no longer match… Continue reading

  • Cover of denial.

    Family and society's image and belief in its purity or innocence, is the biggest wall a victim faces.   We have all bought into the belief that ALL families are safe harbors, all families are love energies…all families have our… Continue reading

  • I Am Me Forever

    I discovered something very intriguing today, about myself…and I am not sure I will be able to unravel it or recreate it with writing my experience of me, and how I am able to fool a part of me and… Continue reading

  • Honors my truth.

    "Do what you feel in your heart is right, you will be criticized anyway."  Eleanor Roosevelt I wonder if the reason most of us don't make changes IS the fear of being criticized? I had to look up the word… Continue reading

  • Want to Hear.

    A line in a movie said, "We don't talk about War because it is too painful, we don't talk about it, because no one wants to hear about it" That concept struck me.  I believe it is exactly the same… Continue reading

  • God

    This sign hung by this mailbox, I see each day. And each day it is asking me IF I am ready to Meet God?   Is He hiding and does a church or religion own him and are they the… Continue reading

  • By Being Me.

    I really enjoyed listening to Melody Beattie's book "The New Codependency" she wrote this many years after her best seller, "Codependency No More".   Codependency is much more pervasive than one might think and it has very little to do with… Continue reading

  • Through your feelings!

    I have been listening to Melody Beattie's book, "The New Codependency"  and I am finding many things that I agree with or that I am surprised in hearing. Like "The opposite of Repression is Expression"…she is talking about feelings. When… Continue reading