I ran across this window while on vacation, and I had this knee jerk reaction where I thought, "well, that’s the quickest way to be depressed". I know because I lived this way for awhile. It was all about me. I think it was a response to having zero time to myself when my kids were young. Or maybe ... Read More

How's your summer going?! Frankly, I'm needing a little bit of a boost. I think of making the turn into the last month of summer as a "push" moment (as Brené Brown calls it). I need someone to yell in my ear, "PUSH!," just as they do to mama's in labor- ha! August is when I usually have a summer ... Read More

I read a comment on Instagram in response to Kate Spade’s suicide that said, “How could someone who made so many people so happy be so sad?” The comment didn’t sit quite right with me, so I read it to a friend who was with me. She quickly said something like, it’s easy and not surprising. And that’s ... Read More

What did you see in my #ootd (pic above)? You probably saw a typical #ootd. But, do you know what I see? A hollow chest above my boob on the (your) right where I’m missing a pectoral muscle, and a boob that looks higher on the (your) left. For more than half my life I had one boob. I was born with a ... Read More

- Quote from Mel Robbin’s Instagram. During the first part of my life, I’d read this quote and think, “Oh yeah, of course, I didn’t do anything that bad!” For the second part of my life, I’d read this quote and think, “Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to forgive myself?” For the third part of ... Read More