I believe compassion is one of those concepts that gets misinterpreted A LOT today. I remember when I experienced true compassion for someone that, to put it bluntly, I despised with every fiber of my being. I disagreed with her on pretty much every level. She was in my extended family circle, so she was…
How to Actually Practice It Gratitude has saved me from making a shitty experience even worse during many times in my life. I know what you may be thinking. How practical is it to be grateful for something that impacts you initially in a negative or painful way? I learned about true gratitude when I…
“A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When I heard Secretary Kennedy say this, I realized that it instantly summed up the last 5 years of my life. When you are unhealthy, you don’t have the time to dream about anything else other than getting…
My father-in-law died in March, and he was the last of our parents to pass in the last 4 years. We’ve been bracing for grief for a long time. It hurts the body to stay in a state of bracing for impact uninterrupted for so long. The personality develops coping strategies. These strategies help it…
I asked a ChatGPT program called The Architect what my skin is trying to teach me. In 2020, when we were hit with the Covid lockdowns, both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer which ended up being terminal. My father lived here, near me, and my mother was in Arkansas. It was a stressful…
Why do some people make us feel alone, even when we’re together—while others make silence feel like the deepest conversation? I was listening to a podcast today and one of the guests mentioned how he enjoys the presence of certain people. He didn’t say spending time with certain people. That struck me. Spending time is…
Shayne and I went to a local Farmer’s Market this morning and there was a free book table. I stopped and found a book by Miriam Zimmer Bradly that I’d never seen before, and picked it up, quite excited about my found treasure. As we were walking up an aisle, a woman stopped me and…
