I'm nearly 40 years old and my parents have been divorced most of my life. My relationship with each of them is unique--crafted by their human experience and mine. Just like everyone else, we are affe…
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During the accident, as my car was flying through the air, I was calculating what I would need to do to get my kids out of the car after we landed. I was aware that they might not …
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Have you ever noticed how every single time you recommit to healthy living, you get sick? (By you, of course, I mean me. And maybe it's not every single time, but it feels like that right this minu…
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Sometimes the anxiety just comes for me, the collision of my reality and the way I think it should be. It's a mental train wreck that keeps me stuck. I cling to the dreams, the sho…
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I grabbed "Kundalini Rising" and went downstairs to read while my family slept in. The morning sun poured into the back of the house for the first time in days. I tended the cats, …
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I was recently offered the writing prompt, "I smile when I...?" and (perhaps ironically) just reading it made me smile. Only moments before, I'd been deeply committed to the grumpiest of grumpy …
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In the stillness I pause To connect to the Divine Love that pulses within me In each breath I feel My fearful old ways Returning to Source In this moment I hear The truth echo in the Silen…
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It's Monday morning, just seconds before the children's alarms go off. Soon, I will be forced to admit that this week has begun. I'm not really ready for it. If I could come up with a way to delay it,…
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I used to think I sucked at goodbyes because I wept and carried on like a child. Then, I remembered that when I was a little girl, I used to pick fights with my friends before we moved away so I would…
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Throughout the years that I was trapped in the hellish lie of isolation, I simply could not cultivate anything I recognized as freedom. Coming out of the closet as a lesbian, mothering in a way that f…
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