Finding Purpose When Holidays Bring Pain

Finding Purpose When Holidays Bring Pain

Facing Loss and Finding Purpose During the Holidays A friend who is facing the uphill battle of going through the holidays after losing her 17 year old a few months texted me and gave me the advice that I am using to light up my holidays and my life (finding her...
Calm the Chaos

Calm the Chaos

I was afraid of chaos. The chaos of a difficult conversation or confrontations or any situation where I didn’t have control. As I got good at avoiding the chaos I did have the appearance of having it together, but with time what was unsaid, unfelt, and avoided kept...
You hurt me, you better heal me

You hurt me, you better heal me

I`m not sure where the misunderstanding began but somehow, we got duped into giving our power and ability to heal what hurts us to those that hurt us.  It’s like: when I get hurt by someone/something, I feel the solution to not feeling that hurt anymore is that...
My Trust Is Shattered

My Trust Is Shattered

The pain of betrayal hits hard. It violates a deeply sacred place within you. The only thing worse than being betrayed is getting trapped in the trauma for years, recycling the painful experience over and over again. Letting ‘what happened to you’, become you. After...
Why would I need to forgive myself?

Why would I need to forgive myself?

In my personal quest to create freedom and peace of heart and mind I kept coming across the idea of self-forgiveness; this baffled me. It was one thing to recognize and pardon the misgivings of others with forgiveness. Self-forgiveness, on the other hand, felt...