[Note: For those that read my blog regularly, this isn’t quite the departure from the subject matter you are used to that it appears to be…keep reading for the usual fare you have come to expect from me.] If you ARE a regular flosser… ***fist bump!*** If you are NOT a regular flosser, don’t tune me out just yet. You… Read More

God bless the teachers, one and all, today and everyday. I definitely went to school to soak up love and acceptance from my teachers. I always worked extra hard to please them and was crushed if I felt their least disapproval. I loved every single one of my teachers, but I absolutely adored my third grade teacher. I distinctly remember… Read More

It seems ironic that God would use some physical pain I was experiencing to teach me about WALKING IN FREEDOM, but that is exactly what He did yesterday. Here is what I wrote in my personal journal: “Body, soul, and spirit are designed to experience pain as a signal that gets me to act differently in response to the pain that I… Read More

It happened again. “The Overwhelm” “The Paralyses” “Frozen in Fear” “A Hot Mess” (This is another blog all by itself….coming soon) Whatever you call it, it is a real thing. It’s what happens to me when life comes at me fast, like a tornado that leaves a path of destruction in it’s wake and leaves me hiding in the storm shelter… Read More

I feel like a time waster deluxe. This feeling causes me to feel a lot of inner stress, which causes me to do things that allow Denial to start running the show in my head so that I can relive the inner stress, which as you know wastes even more time. Steven Pressfield in his book The War of Art… Read More

The barriers we put up to “protect” our heart are there for reasons that make sense at the beginning. Over time the need for the barriers usually diminishes, but by then we have learned patterns of behavior that are hard to overcome without help. I unconsciously learned at a very young age that being my own source of comfort was… Read More