self

  • Birthing the New Me.

    “How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.” ~Robert Brault This paragraph sums up how it is that I began my journey to find myself, in… Continue reading

  • Thank you.

    As I sit here on Thanksgiving morning, I look back at this year and find so many moments of gratitude, it seems I had a year full. My moments of gratitude are interrupted with moments of sheer pain, frustration, sorrow,… Continue reading

  • Window in Self Love

    Sitting here this morning with a visual of a scorecard and its shocking totals are prompting me to shut a door, close a window, and separate myself from those racking up the score. It wouldn’t be so bad if the… Continue reading

  • Reposting….Naked and Imperfect.

    Who puts Perfect in us? What makes us Perfect? Who are the Perfect maker people, where do we find them and how does it work? And how do we know we need Perfect, how do we know we are missing… Continue reading

  • Letting go of Perfection

    Courage lies within us in a very deep place, buried behind the walls of fear of imperfection, coated in false ideals and fantasies that are impossible to attain, courage waits for us to uncover it. Peeling back the layers and… Continue reading

  • Behave my way into love.

    What I didn’t know about self love is that it wasn’t a word in the head, a thought in the mind or even a feeling, but rather Actions. The actions you have towards yourself, not how you appear in public,… Continue reading

  • Love of Self

    A good friend responded to my post on Sprouting Self Hatred, with a great visual, a thought that I could picture. “That picture is: yoga being poured as if out of a fancy vessel and killing the sprouting self hatred–over… Continue reading

  • Sprouting Self Hatred

    As I headed to my room to do yoga with my belly unsettled, images of the laughing sisters, my demeanor glum, I wondered how yoga would be. The standing poses went by without a hitch, but as I lay on… Continue reading

  • Peace with My Self.

    “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Johannes Tillich I love that there are two ways to look at… Continue reading

  • The Lady and Her Jeep

    I was shocked to learn that I had joined a new group, a group of which I knew nothing about, and still don’t, but feel I will learn as I go. As I drove my Jeep across the Bridge in… Continue reading