Self Awareness

A Poem For Every Woman Who’s Been Told “You're Too Much”

Reclaiming balance

Negative beliefs about ourselves are the culprits for undesired feelings

I was always there for others, until I wasn’t needed.

It colors my heart, but it’s not all bad

Despite The Turmoil

What enrages you may be pointing to what still needs healing within

I will carry the pain with me until I see you again!

A childhood garden revisited

When the things that once comforted you become the source of your ache.

They have the brains — but not the peace. These 8 hidden struggles reveal the emotional cost of high intelligence.

Reflections on the Pond

A soft and slower life calls me

It’s not what I expected to happen

A muse.

Still, We Go On…

Until curiosity led me somewhere deeper

To hurt or to heal

Even though she seems so very unthreatening…

Poems that aren’t as they seem

Thanking my father on Father’s Day

We cannot become men without cutting the apron strings

A Journal on Letting Go, Five Years In

From back pain to getting excited about kitchen appliances, the signs of aging sneak up on you in the most unexpected ways.

Let the End Find You Living — My heart has been heavy since I read the news about the plane crash

What it means to survive — and grow — without ever feeling loved by the people who gave you life.

I Am That and so are you

And that’s enough.

The power of choice, and the lightness of life