Love, there is something so incredibly powerful about you. I can’t seem to put you into specific words, but you’re just something or someone I feel and know. Love, you are so wonderfully romantic. Not always in the traditional connotations, but in a way that connects us all. You wake us up in the middleContinue reading “Dear Love”
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Dear Someone Who Will Never Understand
It’s frustrating to think that you will perhaps never get it. But, in another, twisted kind of way, maybe that’s what liberates me. To know that you won’t ever understand how you made me feel makes it easier to forgive you. To realize that maybe things were out of control for you too. To understandContinue reading “Dear Someone Who Will Never Understand”
Dear The Right Now
Oh, how I love who I am right now. I love you, my current season of life. I love who I am. Oh, how I love being a young woman. Last week, I came home after a night of debriefing and ranting and just talking with two of my closest friends. When else am IContinue reading “Dear The Right Now”
Dear Younger Me
This is the first of a series of letters that I’ve been meaning to write. I did a similar piece a few months ago called “To the People in My Life”, but these dive more deeply and honestly. If I could go back and tell my younger self something, what would I say? What couldContinue reading “Dear Younger Me”
My Greatest Fears and Dislikes
I fear the deep ocean and abysses. I really don’t like how it’s just darkness and I don’t know what’s out there. I get so uncomfortable if I look at images of the ocean for too long. Actually, I’m pretty uncomfortable just imagining them right now. I really don’t like when there are too manyContinue reading “My Greatest Fears and Dislikes”
To the People in My Life
I’ve previously known of the healing technique where you write letters to someone with all the things you would like to say to them, but unlike the traditional purpose of letters, you never send them. They aren’t meant to be read by the recipient, but rather to be written by the sender. To the peopleContinue reading “To the People in My Life”
Do You Even Deserve Love?
Merry Christmas!! I hope every single one of you is having a wonderful holiday season and receiving many blessings, whether material or through relationships. Maybe it’s the holiday spirit that’s taken control of me, but whatever it is, I’m glad I’ve become reflective lately. Specifically, I’ve particularly become deeply appreciative of love. Looking back, IContinue reading “Do You Even Deserve Love?”
Daring, Greatly, Rewiring, and Vulnerability
Visible from the length of time it took for this final part of my series to be published, I struggled to choose a final topic to sum up my series. I actually wrote a full length article on grief, but in retrospect, it doesn’t seem to match my message although it is something I doContinue reading “Daring, Greatly, Rewiring, and Vulnerability”
The Sixteenth Second: Now What?
One, two… Oh God, oh God, oh God… nine, ten… okay, breathe, you totally deserve this, so go own it… fourteen, fifteen… wow, I did it… sixteen… huh, was that all? This post is inspired by Kyle Martin, class of 2019 valedictorian of his high school, who I came across in my dive into notableContinue reading “The Sixteenth Second: Now What?”
Just a Girl
“You’re just a girl.” Maybe you should stick to drawing or singing. It’s not very ladylike of you to sit like that. Proper little girls don’t laugh like that. You throw like a girl. You were clearly asking for it. You would be prettier if you lost just a little bit of weight. You eatContinue reading “Just a Girl”
As Written by Lois 