collections of stories
This is a common theme. It's come up in counseling, in spiritual direction, and in multiple conversations recently making me sit with the discomfort longer than I would like to. It's become my greatest insecurity, my most frustrating flaw, and me getting in my own way. I think part of it stems from not fully [...]
I turned to Brandon tonight when we got in the car and I said, “sometimes I like my mom”. But at the same time, this isn’t how I envisioned it. When I was growing up I didn’t know there was anything different except the way that I experienced holidays…which usually was through the lens of [...]
When we become adults, often we lose the things that make us feel joy for the sake of being responsible, being good at it, or for having time. I would argue that we need to make time, that we don't have to be good at it, and that we are being responsible by taking care of our souls in the ways that nurture that little voice inside of us that says "I wish I could do that", you can.
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We will hear it a lot in the next few days…2020 was a hard year. And it was. 2020 will be forever marked with some terrible statistics which (tragically) are a neighbor’s personal story and some of us are gone too soon. If we fail to acknowledge that to us what might be a twisted [...]
I care deeply about what other people think of me. According to my life coach (also- bless her) I care more about the voices of those who hold a high seat in my inner counsel. I am a 6 on the enneagram, and I am convinced 6’s have a REALLY hard time hearing the voice [...]
The other day Brandon and I went to a coffee shop and just left space to be able to dream. It was absolute perfection to me. It's what I did all the time when I was single. We ventured out on a rainy day, to our favorite local coffee shop on the river, and I [...]
May is Mental Health Awareness month and I’ve been super encouraged by people who have raised awareness about the reality of mental health. So many more people struggle with this reality than we think...from anxiety to postpartum depression to anxiety disorders some of us have never heard of. Mental health issues span wider than we [...]
The last post I wrote was Fringing Fear...talking about how fear and anxiety always seem to be licking at my heels. During our engagement season, my fear was probably the worst it had been in a long time. Since that time I couldn't get on a plane. I've also written often that I have been [...]
Where: Good Neighbors What: Cold Brew w/ Almond Milk Listening To: Hipster Pandora Radio I've dreamed of this season for what feels like so long. Ever since I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to be married. But while other girls were dreaming up their wedding, I was dreaming of having a partner [...]
The Celeste Elizabeth 