I Need A New Year

2020 has been one hell of a year. Thankfully we only have a little over three months left. 2021 will bring so much that is better than this year. Life can finally get back to normal and we can put this shit show of a year behind us. Um, no. That is not how it …

Silent Battles

We all have silent battles. Some are things that we will never tell anyone. Some we need to work through and then they go away. Some eat away at us every single day and we don't even know what battle we are fighting. Silent battles are the unspoken silent connection we have with other people. …

Why Don’t We Keep Dating?

Dating is such a wonderful thing. We are energized and excited to get to know another person. We are exploring places we might have already been, but with a new person so it feels new. We hold hands. We hug on each other. We kiss often. So much laughing and giggling and love. Then as …

I Embrace Me

As I've talked about many, many times, I've always struggled with being true to who I am. I've never truly embraced me for me. Until recently. I am really starting to get the hang of just being me. Me as a happy person, me as a grumpy person, me as a friend and a wife, …

I Quit Quitting

So remember a few months ago I talked about quitting alcohol? Maybe it was more than just a few months, but it feels like it was just yesterday. Well, I quit quitting. What does that even mean? Well, it means I am drinking again. But, I'm not drinking like I had been. In fact, my …

The Power of Fear

Fear has power over each and every one of us, even if we don't want to admit it. Fear is a natural basic instinct that can easily control so much of what we do. I, from personal experience, know how debilitating life can be to live through the power that fear has over me. It …

Give Yourself Some Credit

When you stop to look at your life and where you've come since some date, say high school, do you ever give yourself credit? Or do you tell yourself that you haven't done enough? To be honest, until I heard this in some video I was watching, I hadn't really thought about it. I am …

Free

I've always wanted to be like that girl who is free from judgement or care about judgement and is just herself. You know that girl who dances like nobody is watching, laughs as loud as her laugh comes out, is silly, can pick up and randomly do whatever, says what is on her mind, and …

I Don’t Qualify

Have you ever muttered these words to yourself? Did you just have movie reel roll through displaying all of the times you have, or did you say no? If you said no, I would like to meet you because everybody I know has disqualified themselves at one point or another. How do I know that? …