Choose Joy

Choose Joy

Ya know what’s fun? Being happy. Choosing joy. Even when darkness creeps in, choosing not to let it stay. Honoring it, looking at it, but letting it go and doing whatever it takes to choose happy again. Happiness truly is a choice. One you get to make every...
I Don’t Know About You

I Don’t Know About You

I don’t know about you, but I am no longer in the business of talking people into loving me. I quit that a long time ago. I am also no longer in the business of expecting people to love the way I love, respect the way I respect, and honor their word the way I...
Grateful

Grateful

“I am grateful for the courage to fully feel my feelings and to keep being vulnerable through it all.” I was writing this morning and that came up. For most of my life I never let myself be vulnerable. I never truly felt my feelings. I hid them in a busy...
What Do You Do For Fun?

What Do You Do For Fun?

“What do you do for fun?” To be honest, that question always throws me. I know it’s one of the go-to’s when people are trying to get to know someone or reconnecting with a lost friend or acquaintance but it’s a question that I tend to normally cringe at. Maybe it’s...
Celebration List

Celebration List

Lately I spend more time writing about the facts than anything else. In my journal, that is. I’m writing a “celebration” list of all I’ve accomplished for the day. Documenting facts in order to combat the voice in my head that has always done a...