Always Starting…The Art of Never Giving Up
Journal of a journey through life, true love and lessons learned along the way.
I have the most overactive brain of anyone that I know. I am thinking all the time constantly going over and over every conversation, every emotion, every thought, every relationship, every bite of every food, everything!!! Nothing goes on without me overthinking the crap out of it!!! I am not certain where this comes from... Continue Reading →
What is it about chemistry that brings two people together? It is not the kind you learn about in high school that requires the memorization of the table of elements. Or maybe it is...there has to be a science to it. I spent two hours on the phone with one of my best friends today... Continue Reading →
I love to see a moment unfold before my eyes, so much so that I have the awareness to take it all in and appreciate it. As I am climbing into bed tonight, feeling fulfilled from the day, I hear the rain outside and realize how peaceful it is. Quiet rainfall, not a downpour, and... Continue Reading →
"There's no hierarchy of pain. Suffering should not be ranked, because pain is not a contest. ...by diminishing my problems, I was judging myself and everyone else whose problems I had placed lower down on the hierarchy of pain. You can't get through your pain by diminishing it."Lori Gottlieb “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone”... Continue Reading →
I watched a TED Talk featuring Nigel Marsh on “How to make work-life balance work” and thought it was worth sharing as it inspired so many of my own thoughts and opinions on the topic. Never has there been a time in our world where work and life have collided as millions of us are... Continue Reading →
And just like that it occurs to me. That I have indeed manifested this, the life I always dreamed of without realizing I was heading right for it. It just occurred to me this morning as I was finishing a 12-week program via the "The Artist's Way", that everything that I have done for the... Continue Reading →
As I write this I am 72 hours from my 49th birthday or maybe better said, 72 hours from the completion of my 48th year on this earth. I am still searching for a lot of things but most ominous is the search for contentment. There is something about the "9"s that get our attention... Continue Reading →
Silence. The word elicits a response regardless of the emotion. When said out loud in exclamation it will quiet a room. When said in a whisper it will quiet the brain. It is something we long for and in other times something we run from. It is a word, a state of being, an emotion,... Continue Reading →
Day 29 prompt: Iyanla Vinzant states, "There is no greater battle in life than the battle between the parts of your that want to be healed and the parts of you that are comfortable and content remaining broken."What emotions does this statement evoke? What feels normal to you? My answer: This is a very fair... Continue Reading →
Day 27 prompt: Brene Brown says, "Today I will choose courage over comfort."What courageous thing are you doing in your own life? My answer: This is a great prompt today because courage can be found in the things we do that take effort. Things that go against "easy", things that we have to "force", but... Continue Reading →
Always Starting...The Art of Never Giving Up 