It is a path to your true heart. It is an intentional expression of your soul. It is a way to find solace. It is looking for hope. It is a way of doing something when you don’t know what else to do.In 1889, Vincent Van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital....
I just spent some time alone with myself and Covid, so I have a renewed sense of how isolation can aggravate mental health. It’s hard to struggle with your mental health and even harder to actually talk about it. When you notice there are changes in the way you are...
Mine taught me how not to throw like a girl. He taught me how to jab, jab, jab with my left, then hook with my right. He taught me how to drive a stick and stand up for myself. I learned how to cuss, drink beer and enjoy the opera from him. And I learned how to be...
I watched my first child born through the lens of the midwife's glasses. Theodorah asked me if I wanted a mirror to see the birth but it was so beautiful watching it through her eyes. Somehow we expect or hope or imagine that a mother sees us in all of our goodness...
But will it? Do things really work out? Will every manner of thing be made well, dear Julian of Norwich? Are you sure? Because I was banking on it. I built my life around it. When things crumble, deep diving into a faith that says all is unfolding just as it is...
March is a season of birth day and death day anniversaries for me. This is the month a precious daughter came into our life and the same month my mom left this life. The process of giving birth and dying are eerily similar. There are stages of labor and stages of...
“It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love”. (Kate DiCamillo, “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane”). Edward Tulane is a porcelain bunny who is on a journey to love. His story of finding himself...
On August 1, 1966, a sniper started shooting from the tower on the UT campus in Austin, Texas. As innocent victims went down, bystanders hid behind trees or statues, too terrified to move. One poor victim remembers thinking that Viet Nam had come to Texas. During the...
LOOK FOR THE LIGHT IN YOU. IT GETS DARK EARLY AND EASILY AND OFTEN THESE DAYS. LOVE AND LIFE ARE ALL THAT MATTER.TRUST YOUR LIGHT.
Facebook, Instagram, Norman Rockwell paintings, Christmas letters …. Such happy, shiny, idyllic, perfect images. The crisis in Gaza, mass murders, racism, my own family of origin …. Such devastating, tragic, brutal, sad realities. How do we hold the realities of how...
Becoming a Conscious Parenting Certified Coach has me thinking a lot about what it means to be conscious in my life. When not conscious, my default is to be numb or inattentive. I miss important details. I say careless things. My mind is elsewhere. Though it is...
Years ago I was laying next to our youngest daughter while we did our bedtime routine. In between stories and lullabies, my mind was spinning. Irrational fears were spiraling and before I knew it, I had gone down a rabbit trail in my mind where our family had become...
