“We can't save them from themselves.” The conversation carried on, but the words resounded, reverberated, and bounced off the walls of my heart for the foreseeable future. I was talking with a colleague about the work we do, about how we have a front row seat to...
Sometimes (read: oftentimes) when I am doing yoga, I lose my balance. I slide off center and lean to one side, threatening to topple over entirely. What I have discovered is that when I jerk back, out of fear of falling, I almost always over...
sometimes i wish that i could keep my "people" from making mistakes. i wish that i could open up their brains, pour in everything that life has taught me & allow us both to carry on wiser, stronger, & completely more awesome lives. obviously. but i can't. sometimes...
last weekend i was in florida with a friend. one afternoon we were frolicking on the beach--and i do mean frolicking, it was perfection--when rain clouds began rolling in. we didn't want to go in yet; we were having too much fun. but then, not out of nowhere the bottom...
photosource You know what I am really tired of? Lies and liars. We sleep with lies. We tuck them in our purses. We stick them in our back pockets, fold them into the pages of our books. We nestle them under couch cushions and bind them around our...
I'm reading Beth Moore's So Long Insecurity, right now and last week came to a section where she has literally written out a prayerful meditation asking for release from insecurity. Her words penned inspired across the page. I was reading, praying, and claiming the words when I came to six little...
Trust. Trust according to Merriam Webster is, "a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc." The other day a friend of mine posed the question: "How do you trust again? [After being hurt, damaged, bruised, beaten up, tortured, discarded, and broken by life and people...
During my time at Ridgview Institute I spent a lot of time discussing “space” with mysupervisor. One day he noticed that itʼs a term I use often, but he was unclear as to whether or not I could define what exactly I was talking about.Eventually we...
There is a line in the movie Hitch...
