So much growth this year...I have learned I am capable of giving unconditional love.
Deconstruction – Maybe I am capable of being love
Tag: life lessons
Flipping the Questions: Opening Up to be Unapologetically Me
For weeks, okay months, I have struggled with this deep gut feeling. It sits in the pit of my stomach and reaches up to my heart, where it rests. I call it loneliness, it feels like emptiness. A hollowness in my soul that no one will ever see me; no one will ever connect with [...]
Secrets, Lies and Bossy Bossers
I tell people I am a recovering perfectionist. Quintessential oldest child, I wanted to set the example, follow the rules, make more rules to follow, and do it all with ease and perfection. People pleasing was how I thought you were supposed to live your life. Rules are easy. There are clear boundaries you have [...]
Year End Lessons for 2018
It has been awhile since I have written a lessons post. I thought a new year would be a good time to reflect on what I have re-learned or learned or remembered from this past year. I am going to use this look back as a guide to help my way forward this year. First [...]
On hostile unicorns and absolution
A few weeks ago, my oldest son was explaining how he beat the hard mode in Terraria. For me, listening to how these games are played, even though I have watched them, is complicated, to say the least. Basically, Terraria is a game where you can dig, build, and fight. You work through different biomes [...]
Mean
Fridays are usually my kids favorite days. No homework means straight up fun all afternoon. After the first full week of school I thought my kids would be stoked that Friday afternoon had finally arrived. All seemed good in the car. Of course my momdar (mom + radar) should have gone off when my daughter [...]
An intuition filled life
At 8 AM; I wiped the sleep off my face, downed the last of my chai latte, said my typical pre-reading prayer and called a new client on the other side of the United States. Even after four years and a lifetime of experience, I still get nervous. My faith is deep and wide and [...]
Living in the WILD – lessons from afourytale
School has started. Enough said. Am I right? Whether you have kids in school or not if you live in the U.S., school starting changes traffic patterns, moods and daily life all the way around. And since my brain cannot function without examining the minutiae of everything, it started spinning and I thought this was as [...]
Bear hunts, earthquakes & roller coasters
Earthquakes shake through the foundation of our lives. They just do. They aren't planned and you can't escape them. It reminds me a bit of the book Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. In the book, the family goes looking for a bear and they encounter long wavy grass, a deep cold river, thick [...]
My first reading.
This is a story that is told multiple times a week. Details are omitted to scrunch it into the allotted time. It is the story I tell before each reading; the story of how I got started doing readings for other people. I want to share it here in its entirety because I think just once it [...]
I still suck at small talk and other things I probably shouldn’t write out loud!
So I am back on the kinder party circuit. You know the parties where parents stay and mingle while the kids party. Yep; that kind of party. As I watched my kiddos bowl yesterday I struggled with small talk. I did better mind you; I actually sought a couple of people out and chatted, but [...]
What matters…
In a few short weeks I will be 39. There are always two ways to look at your life...as a success or as a work in progress. A big chunk of my life is a work in progress and I am okay with that. I went to school to become a teacher. It's what I [...]
Scared
In a weeks time I have written about bravery and grace and just being okay with the falls we experience in life and yet no matter how much I try there is an undercurrent of fear in my heart. It's okay to be scared right? Lately I am scared of everything. Okay longer than lately; [...]
Teaching them to fall
One of my kiddos is obsessed with monkey bars right now. He has to try out the monkey bars at every park, no matter the height or complexity. This triggers my panic and fear index - reflex - whatever it is; it freaks me the hell out! I am a worrier. It is a trait [...]
Do souls die?
Do souls die? Do souls and bodies die at different times? One of my sweetest clients wrote to me the other day and she included these questions in her email to me. She wrote to me about dementia and Parkinson's Disease. She has witnessed these first hand and wants to know what happens to the soul [...]