Struggles, challenges, wells of pain, and really, really messy times happen — for all of us. One of the things I’ve found helpful in climbing out of worry, stress, overwhelm, and depression: ditching the fight and reminding myself life is…
Make Me Happy: On Happiness and Other People
A tough (though useful) life lesson I’m starting to get (after years of trying to please every coach, teacher, boss, and other “authority figure,” even into adulthood, and seeing that I, too, had begun to rely on others in order…
Like I’d Thought — And Nothing Like I’d Thought
What if life is contradictions and beauty and pain? Pain is information. You can run from it if you choose. It’s okay. Eventually — the way through is through. It’s to take one step after another. It’s to show up.…
Empty and Numbing
There aren’t enough medications to take, nice dinners and vacations to go on, glasses of wine or coffee to drink, or new shoes to wear that will make us feel better in the long run, if we’re feeling empty underneath.…
Falling in Sicily
A story for today’s food for thought. Recently an old gymnastics memory came to mind, probably because I’d found a reference to this specific meet when I was looking through a photo album the previous week. I was around 15…
Pain, Forever, Seasons, Bonehead Mistakes
Considerations for a hard day, when life feels painful for you and/or your teen: Pain. It’s hard to witness, to feel, to experience. Pain is real. Real in its suckiness and messiness, tiredness, depression, and despairing. Real in the physical…
What If…
Today’s food for thought is a selection of recent ponderings: -Danielle LaPorte’s Truthbomb: “So much is a cry for love.” -Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk: My stroke of insight -What if: What if so much IS a cry for love?…
On Our Pain
Thought for today for us as adults, as well as our teens (they learn a lot by what we do or don’t do!): On a place to begin dealing with pain (and everyone experiences pain sometimes), start with feeling…