Few speak candidly enough about how awkward, embarrassing, and messy the transition from parenting children to parenting teens and then...

I wonder... With The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) October session of General Conference coming up and the...

I don’t know how to help the people in my life understand the depth to which food is tied to trauma for me. So I'm writing about it....

When you realize you get so damn confused all the time because you hear voices others don’t. Some of us speak so quietly you have to...

This new creative process still feels clunky to me. I used to stand in front of a canvas, take a deep breath, close my eyes, and feel....

I love dictionary words. The ones I haven’t learned. The surprises. The ones I get to leave behind for safe keeping. My favorites are the...

I might have figured something out. The reason people tell me I'm "paranoid," "need to calm down," "need to trust," "have faith," or "let...

I’ve been pondering and learning a lot about what us white people refer to as empathy. Being empathic. White people seem to put empathy...

Becoming the Hero, Written Series My biological, “earthly” father left my life when I was two and hasn’t contributed much fatherly impact...

This must be a ‘mid-midlife’ crisis. From other's perspectives I went through a midlife crisis a few years ago. Nope. That was certainly...

I got a son and I want him to grow up in a world that looks very different than it looks today. ~ Justin Baldoni As a mother of boys that...

I've been thinking a lot recently about forgiveness. I'm trying to tease out what forgiveness, justice, and amends means to me....

Communication is love. Be it verbal, physical, or otherwise. "Speak to me," is akin to, "I love you." Let me learn your language, and...

"When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence." ~ Anonymous Of all the hymns this is the one that shaped my...

Oh the layers of nonsensical thinking to go through. This photo (taken by kid #3 on a recent family trip) is now my desktop photo on my...

To say the Netflix comedy special "Nanette" affected me would be an understatement. Wow. Wow. Wow. Please watch it if you haven't. If...

Piggybacking off of yesterday's post and an ongoing theme in my healing...How in touch are we with our own humanity? What do we sacrifice...

It is tough to process and come to grips with the fact that I am never going to be perfect and that is absolutely okay and expected. I am...

The attached article came across my feed today and it was the validation I needed in the midst of life's chaos. I have three sons and my...

My partner held me last night as PTSD racked my body. I awoke in the middle of the night sobbing. There were no thoughts. No remembered...