Turning 40 I distinctly remember the year leading up to my 30th birthday being filled with trepidation about the upcoming new decade. 30, ugh. That was like being a real, real adult. Our parents had been in their thirties when we were kids. Teachers, doctors, business people, you know, mature adults, were in their 30s. […]
The Love U Project | Girls Night
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” -Hubert H. Humphrey | Week 7 | Friendships are essential to our happiness. We learn and discover in them. They become the fabric of our lives. They lift us when we are down and show pride for us in our accomplishments. We do the same for them. […]
Love U Project | Momma Needs A Time Out
“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir” ― Khaled Hosseini | Week 6 | When we take care of ourselves we can do anything. When we don’t take care of ourselves we are unable to […]
The Best Room
“My “best” room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. Thither in summer days, when distinguished guests came, I took them, and a priceless domestic swept the floor and dusted the furniture and kept the things in order.” -Henry David […]
Top 5 Things Never to Say to a Person with a Mental Illness
1. Bipolar can be cured. Rub this oil on you. Don’t eat gluten. Pray. I have yet to have a doctor to tell me it can be cured and yet to read anything legitimate that gives me hope that it can be cured. I’ve accepted I will live with it but how I treat it […]
The Love U Project | Self Care
| Week 6 | Self care is very important in loving yourself. I’m so guilty of not taking care of my own self at times. As moms we are all busy juggling and shuffling through it all. Who has time for a pedi/mani? Who has time for a massage? Who has time to have a […]
The Love U Project | Gratitude
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson | Week 5 | Showing gratitude grows joy and happiness. By counting your blessings you increases your capacity for love, forgiveness, joy, purpose and all the other positives we want in our lives. This weeks project is to count your blessings […]
Finding Purpose
I asked myself many times over: Why did my dad die so young when his greatest loves were only babies? He never got to know them. That’s not fair. It took me three years to begin to somewhat grasp and understand the reasons behind my father’s early departure. Although now he is not with me […]
The Love U Project | Gratitude
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward | Week 4 | Buy a box of thank you cards. Divide the box in half. In one half you will write cards to friends and show gratitude to them. Thank them for a kind […]