Stop Feeling Shame
There’s nothing helpful or useful or beneficial about shame. Nothing. If you did something you regret, fix it to the best of your ability and move forward. If you drank too much or smoked too much or ate too much, …
Tag: self-love
It’s Okay to Be Like Everyone Else: A Five-Miler
I’m in a crowded room and then I’m in a bathroom. I’m holding my breath. I see someone. He’s carrying this biological terror inside him, this virus that he’s going to unleash on the world, so I take a deep …
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Service, Talents, Self and God
Last week, as part of my ongoing spiritual journey, I embarked on a systematic rereading of the New Testament. I took a break from reading Mark and read Deb Bryan’s post about learning compassion from a woman who massaged the …
How I Became A Rebel Thriver
I used to be my worst enemy. In word or in deed I sabotaged myself. I have written in here of self-hurting; of my inner-editor-hater; of suicidal ideation; of self-abnegation and even self-hatred. Rather than repeat the sad refrains that …
Stormy Friendship
I made it to the lake for a ten-miler at 6 p.m., and a mile or two into the run, dark storm clouds raced like black war horses from the western side of the water. The wind picked up and …
The Little Prince and why my Scars Matter
I’m a mom. Do you see the picture of me smiling, dark-blond hair blowing in the wind? That is I. My son snapped that picture of me at Virginia Beach last summer. I guess I am normal, but if not …
A Gift to a Woman: No Category Necessary
I went to a meeting with a man named Brian today and I didn’t want to be there but I made the best of it. I knew it was going to be one of those meetings in which my story, …