Some days, this body doesn’t feel like it’s mine. Some days my face looks wrong. Some days my hair feels wrong. It’s an almost daily shift, certainly weekly. It always comes down to focusing too hard on what my body is not, instead of appreciating what it is. I have never been the type of… Continue reading Building a Body that Feels Like Me
I want to share my writing. Desperately. I want other people to read my fiction to have the fun that I have when stories develop and scenes soar across my eyelids. But, it’s a lot of pressure to put on myself for a group of people that, honestly, doesn’t exist yet. (Shout out to the… Continue reading Blinders On – Tuning it all out for a while
There was an exercise during The Artist’s Way that asked to write down the lives you wished you could live. I loved this exercise, so I’m doing it again. All the things I still want to be when I grow up: Author Painter Professor Swimmer Yoga Instructor Singer/Songwriter Pianist Illustrator Hiker Photographer Pastry Chef/Baker Bookstore/Cafe… Continue reading All the things I still want to be when I grow up
I was doing so well. I’m 3 months into the year, and only just last week did I slip back into the infinite scroll of Instagram. I don’t even know what caused it. It might have been trying to check in on a flash tattoo sale I wanted to attend, and I was only able… Continue reading Attention Span Healing – The backwards slide and how I’m dealing with it
As another friend announces their having a baby, I’m left in a swirl of thoughts. Like so many other women of my age, I think about what it would mean to have kids. The good, the bad, the weird…and for the most part I can usually see the appeal (and also the off-putting concept of… Continue reading How do people decide to have kids when the future feels so uncertain?
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