There are so many things that we all do or feel but never talk about. So let’s talk…
I am an expert at pretending to rest. I can fool myself into thinking that I’m taking the appropriate amount of time to be still, to stop checking items off of my to-do list, and to enjoy that art of slow living. But the truth is that I’ve never stopped striving at all, every time [...]
I’ve written about this topic before (click here to read my other posts) but it’s something that I don’t think can be talked about enough, so I’m going to write about it again. What issue am I talking about? Comparison. This is a word that has bombarded our media and has addressed about so many [...]
Confession time: I get really mad sometimes. Now I’m not talking about getting a little peeved now and then, or occasionally yelling into a pillow. I’m talking about those moments when you get so mad that you want to punch a wall, and where you can feel the steam coming out of your ears. This [...]
Can I be real for a moment? Sometimes it’s really hard to find motivation. There are times when I don’t want to write, or there are times when I do want to write, but I have no motivation to put words on the page. And then there are times when all that I want to [...]
We all want to be loved. We all want to be accepted by the people around us. We all want to find our greater purpose in this life. We all want to have meaning. We all want to matter, and we all want to matter to someone. But one of the great flaws of this [...]
I love food. I love the way that it smells. I love the way that it tastes. I love the feeling of getting your hands sticky with dough, too sticky to answer the phone or text or scroll. I love the feeling of seeing people gathered around the table eating and communing. I love food…but [...]
I am a deeply relational person. This means that not only do I have a desire to create and foster meaningful relationships with the people around me, I also have the desire to see other’s relationships grow and flourish. This being said, public enemy number one to people like me (and for most people these [...]
