Always Starting…The Art of Never Giving Up
Journal of a journey through life, true love and lessons learned along the way.
Day 17 prompt: How has your normal changed or are you living the life you experienced as a child? Re-creation or Recreation? The prompt is a long-one this morning so I set the question above and offer the entire prompt here. Tara Westover said, "There is a way you experience life as a child, and... Continue Reading →
Day 16 prompt: What is your level-set? Why? The prompt is a long-one this morning so I set the question above and offer the entire prompt here. Admittedly I do not like the way I originally wrote the prompt so I am revising as I rewrite it below. 🙂 Everyone's normal is predicated on their... Continue Reading →
Day 11 prompt: How many variations of normal do you have in your life? For example today you may be happy or sad or ill - are they all "normal"? My answer: Interesting topic as it may be it about what is YOUR normal and my normal is obsession over diet and exercise and anxiety... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/ksw3Zc7Fh38 Day 10 prompt: Is crisis normal for you? Are you creating crisis in your own life? In the lives of others? Are others creating crisis in your life?How do you begin to change that? My answer: Crisis is not normal for me. I am someone that has anxiety without crisis so to feed into... Continue Reading →
Day 9 prompt: People talk about the "new" normal. What was the "old" normal? Did that label ever fit you? My answer: Well once again I could not have known when I wrote this prompt that I would one day be answering it in a world where the "new" normal is a daily condition. My... Continue Reading →
Day 8 prompt: Is wanting control in every single aspect of our life normal? Control over every emotion, person, stressors, etc. that are in my life... My answer: I could not have known a year ago when writing this prompt journal that it would be put to the test in a pandemic that has taken... Continue Reading →
Day 6 prompt: Contentment is a state of being but how does it relate to normal? Is "normal" having routines or is it simply being satisfied with our state of being at that moment? Is it wrong to long for contentment beyond this moment? Is this where lacking gratitude begins? My answer: This is a... Continue Reading →
Last year we published a prompt journal called "Seeking Normal" after a journal entry I had written about my journey to get back to normal after losing my Mom. It was in that journey that I began to understand that this "normal" I was searching for likely never existed. My original post can be found... Continue Reading →
This moment in our lives when everything we thought "was" "is" we are faced with many questions about life and who we are. We walk around in this world in "roles" as defined: the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation When that assumed function or part is... Continue Reading →
Today's dose is about the concept of validation. The definition revolves around; checking, proving or affirming a persons truth. In this day and age of social media there is much to be said about the public validation that we seek when we post on social media. We post to share but we also post to... Continue Reading →
Always Starting...The Art of Never Giving Up 