1 day left: HOPE

1 day left: HOPE

Hope is one of those things you take for granted until it doesn’t exist for you anymore.    I find that hope is tied to several things. When someone says they don’t have hope or the situation is hopeless, what they are really saying is they have lost the...
Day 2: BEING PRESENT

Day 2: BEING PRESENT

Even just a couple of years ago I would have spent my birthday drinking to a stupor. Mostly because I would have spent the days leading up to it studying for finals of some sort. It was a vicious cycle of a stressful event and then convincing myself that this was the...
Day 3: HAPPINESS

Day 3: HAPPINESS

What have I learned about happiness in 30 years? That it is not fixed, but that it is something that you should be constantly striving for. I don’t negate the times in my life when I have struggled and they have taught me something, because it makes the good times...
Day 4: LOVE

Day 4: LOVE

Have I ever been “in love”? No (Oh geez, I swear I’m not Josie Geller from Never Been Kissed)    See my post on vulnerability for more. But for me for a very long time I feared that opening myself up to someone, sharing my life, letting someone in was just an...
Day 5: JUDGMENT

Day 5: JUDGMENT

“I have probably judged you. You read that right.    If you’re honest, you’ve likely judged me too. It’s human nature to take all the information we are sensing and receiving and form an instant opinion based on where it fits in with our worldview.   ...
Day 6: GUILT AND SHAME

Day 6: GUILT AND SHAME

This is something I struggle with a lot. Something I am consistently working on.   I feel guilty for everything…lots of things I cannot control. Guilty for things others do. I carry the burden of guilt and it is so incredibly destructive. This is probably...

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