no shortcuts to healing

Ever hear the phrase when someone is trying to lose weight “it didn’t take over-night to gain the weight, its not…

trusting to {be}

24 hours ago I was ready to take down my blog and move on from writing.

saying goodbye to my blog (NOT SO FAST)

Check back for the newest blog writing on why my blog is NOT going down. Sometimes when…

grace in a thousand forms

I had a little frustration hit me today, and instead of reverting to my old ways of dealing with things inside, I…

five minute friday — {story}

Welcome to Five Minute Friday — Five minute Friday we bloggers write for five minutes flat on Fridays.

much like a swing

I used to spend hours on a swing when I was younger. I would build up strength and build up strength until I got so high that I couldn’t get any higher, and then enjoy it until it slowed down, and felt the breeze as the swing swung high; a feeling of complete freedom.

a moment of weakness

I had one of those moments today that emotions found me…. right in the middle of a store, and it was almost impossible to stop, and it showed up for a reason, a good reason, a needed reason.

no shortcuts to healing

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”

onward . . .

Today I woke up and shook off whatever negativity that something brought on me yesterday.

Someone stepped back into my life that I wish to forget; something that caused me a lot of pain and triggers in my healing and my life at the beginning of the year, and something that my…

five minute friday — enough

Welcome to Five Minute Friday — We bloggers write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We set a timer for 5…

a small break

I used to hate when there was a small break in therapy. You reach something big in therapy, your leading up to something so…

rise and shine to {connection}

My eyes opened quick this morning, I looked at my phone to see the time, and I saw the email icon that I…

building new muscles

I started working out again last month and I have to say I forgot what pain was like working with every muscle in the body.

You roll out of bed and feel every muscle in your body burn, your crawling up the stairs from the 100 lunges, squats and leg presses — but…

moving through it — then found connection

I woke up this morning startled into an anxiety attack at 6:20am that came out of…

tearing down walls

My therapist would always say to me when I first started therapy “lets take one brick out at a time until we see something”

the dancing path

I am chuckling while writing this because I had promised my therapist in session today that I would put the name of today’s blog…

healing {re}opened wounds

I have had a lot of old wounds open this year; old wounds that came to the surface that pretty much sent me into a triggered mess — but a mess that love, care and support of all those around me have helped me to move through in an empowered way.

breaks in the path

I am writing tonight right from the heart with no care about spelling or wording! sometimes when we don’t filter, whats in…