August 2016 – unfiltered from the heart

Rose Colored View

This past weekend delivered another powerful lesson to me about love. It was through several events that I saw I also held the unconscious belief that love was impermanent. It was as if I needed continual rejnforcement that someone loved me. I also saw this reflected in my children. While I can immediately tie this to many relationships I haveContinue reading “Rose Colored View”

Growing Love: Self-Care Begins Inside

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, FORMER FIRST LADY So somewhere in life we are taught to believe that love is limited and conditional. For some of us thisContinue reading “Growing Love: Self-Care Begins Inside”

Up for the Downstroke ~ Cultivating Happiness

Doing the same thing everyday becomes monotonous quickly and creates dissatisfaction. Creating new ways to do the routine things in life adds some spice and warms the heart. Yesterday, while I made my breakfast, I played “Up for the Downstroke” by Parliament. Though I pan-scrambled my eggs the same way I do everyday, damn, if theyContinue reading “Up for the Downstroke ~ Cultivating Happiness”

If You’re Like Me…

You see the things that others miss You hear what is said in the spaces and the silences. Life is best lived on the edges Too much of one thing leaves a desire for leaving. Many call you eclectic. Your type is “no type,” Whether it’s food, music or lovers. You’ve been called to aContinue reading “If You’re Like Me…”

Making the Time

Frequently I find myself saying that I don’t have time for something: To feel what I’m feeling. I’ll feel it later. To take an extra second or two to be sure that I did it right the first time. I’ll fix it later. To cut my kids’ pancakes. I need to get ready. To doContinue reading “Making the Time”

Being Balanced

This seems an ongoing, burgeoning quest at times. This past year has brought many changes and I’m still digesting many of them. Now my path is leading me on another uphill ascent. Work demands are increasing. 4 weeks ago I started splitting my time between two clinics. Then next week I will be taking onContinue reading “Being Balanced”

Touching the Fraility at the Core

https://youtu.be/hPC2Fp7IT7o The featured image came up Friday on FB’s “on this day” from last year. I reposted it joking I needed it tattooed on my forearm. Then later in the morning, I witnessed the fraility of a woman who is also my toughest client. She casts out barbs and talks down to me as I gentyContinue reading “Touching the Fraility at the Core”

Motivation through punishment?

Yesterday was a gym day in a week with only a few days of gym options. Repeatedly I told myself I “had” or needed to get up and get to the gym. (This version has been edited for your aesthetic reading pleasure). So guess whose hips stayed in bed even though she was wide awake? Continue reading “Motivation through punishment?”

a dreamer’s dream

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ~Khalil Gibran through the fog he could see the beauty bound within scars. there was no hiding nor cajoling. no shrugging permitted. simply naked & vulnerable. able to see straight to the truth his eyes fixated on the darkest spots on my soul,Continue reading “a dreamer’s dream”

back together again

shattered, feeling broken again. another hope broken, no need for rope to pull the shards back together again. the rabbit heart fears its truth and believes in false gods that ignore the sounds of crying babes; believing they need to learn to be okay without divine intervention or attention. seeds of shame and doubt planted Continue reading “back together again”