“Being a mother is learning about strengths you did’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” –Linda Wooten, from Mom’s the Word, by Allen Klein I’m thinking a lot about my role as a mother. Trying to figure out my place in all of it. Sometimes, it seems as though [...]
I no longer strive to keep it all in balance. What I’m going for is groundedness. A way to stay connected to myself and my inner source even when day around me ebbs and flows with errands and stresses and opportunities and unexpected demands. Even when things are out of balance, you can find peace [...]
Life feels a little out of balance — and that’s fine by me. It’s often like this. I’m busy. Engaged. Got lots of interesting things going on. Right now, I’m running in different directions, trying to finish last minute deadlines, and pay the bills and get the groceries, and make it to my kid’s school [...]
This week as so many conversations turn to our freedoms and rights and the courageous people who fought — and continue to fight — to make sure we get to keep them, it occurs to me that so many are still imprisoned. Stuck in their own limiting beliefs. In thought patterns that sabotage their own [...]
I’m not a rainbow and hearts kinda girl – except for when I was about eight and dotted every ‘ i ‘ with a mini heart. I’m not frilly or lovey dovey. And while I feel deeply and love deeply I’ve never spent a ton of time thinking about what love is and how it [...]
Let’s get a couple of things straight: I love junk food and I would prefer not to exercise (though I do). But, I also like breathing, walking to the mailbox without getting winded, and wearing the same jeans week after week. When it became harder to meet those last goals, I decided to get to [...]
Last night, I lashed out when I could have been loving. I reacted impatiently, when one of the people I love made a mistake and a mess, and then walked through it. (Seriously, did you and your Barbie really need to wade through the spilled milk?) In that moment, I had a choice. And, I [...]
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. –Mahatma Gandhi For awhile, when I first started dating Mr. J, the man who is now my husband, I spent time commenting even ruminating on his flaws. There weren’t any big bad ones, nothing worrisome, but, I was afraid of getting [...]
Scars track my left leg where doctors cut melanoma from the skin. I’ve gained a little weight since college and, well O.K., even since that football tailgate last month. I’ve added some wrinkles. Some gray hair. And this body can be stiff and sore with arthritis after sitting too long. Perhaps, I’m not the hottie [...]
Part II Interview with author Rosie Molinary: When we change our minds and focus on who we are inside — at a soul level — we can change our body image and see our true beauty, says Rosie Molinary, author of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance. Molinary believes that a poor body [...]
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