Me Against Them

I recently came to realize that I have a, 'it's me/us against them' mentality. I'm not exactly sure what brought me to this realization, but it happened and I've sat on the thought for a while before wrapping my head around sharing it. I know where it comes from, now I just have to do …

Frustrated

My recovery from my L5-S1 spinal fusion is hitting three months post-op tomorrow. It feels momentous. It feels depressing. It is frustrating. I read so many accounts of slow recoveries after surgery and kept thinking to myself that I wouldn't sit in the season, I would work to recover better and faster. I have. I …

Hiding

Social media is a fickle thing depending on what your goal is with using it. You may have one account for this and another account for that. You might have this one private and that one public. You may even have different followers. You may have one that you only have family on. Social media …

Shame

Yesterday I posted this blurb on Instagram. And now I want to expand on it even further. You see, shame is something that we each deal with differently. We might see some of our shame journey in other people, but it is still different. No matter how different our shame is, we are not in …

Mind Wandering

If I am doing something with my hands and there isn't a book I'm listening to or a TV show that I'm watching, I'm most likely lost in my mind, off somewhere in another time. Even if music is on. I have a wandering mind. Most of the time, I'm trying to prepare myself for …