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....

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...

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...

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...

Becoming the Hero, Written Series I remember my doodles from childhood and wish beyond almost anything that I still had some of them. My...

My friend says my paintings scare her. My response: "How do you think they make me feel? I live with this." *TRIGGER WARNING. Sexual...

There's a line from the movie Shrek that has stuck with me from my first viewing. Probably because everyone quoted it over and over....

"If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle with others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean...

"You need to grow thicker skin." Oh, the amount of times I've heard that. It's just about the most insensitive, yet necessary, advice out...