Empowerment
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Healing from Relational Trauma
I was lying in a pool of sweat when it happened. Flat on my back, at the end of a Hot Yoga session that had just showed my muscles they could do hard things. As I lay still, eyes closed,… Continue reading
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Choosing Better
The darkness of life is a wonderful teacher. I’ve been there a time or two, and now I say, ‘no’. Lovingly, with fire and ice, I say no. No, thank you. No. Thank you, no more. Such a lovely relief,… Continue reading
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Only And Always
The wind cannot be caught. It cannot be moulded to perfection, scraped and gutted and made to be something other than what it is. The wind is only, and always, the wind. And you are only and always you. Flow… Continue reading
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Control
Control. Lack of it. Need for it. Flight from it. Control. There will always be hunger for freedom. Continue reading
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Isn’t It Funny
Isn’t it funny that for a moment you forgot how wonderful you are. Sweet, dancing sunshine. Isn’t it funny. Continue reading
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Tomorrow’s Sweet Sun
How sweet it is, dear life. To choose better, without handing a cup of pain to another. To know my worth and to ask equal to its value without hesitation: a true gift from the whirling, twirling invisible world of… Continue reading
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Just The Way You Are
For the ones who think they are broken. You are beautiful. Just the way you are. Continue reading
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A Sweet Dream
I am the beautiful breeze in the body of a woman. I am not contained in stories of suffering. I have always been an unrestricted choice in the making. A sweet dream singing high in the sky, over the black… Continue reading
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Just Watch Me
Fear? she said, feeling the fire of a soul ready to be heard. I dare you. Just watch me. Continue reading
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Then Is Gone. This Is Now.
Her words lumped in my gut like a blob of warm resentment. I was late. By six-minutes. I would be charged a full half an hour extra— her colleague had been unable to go to lunch until my arrival. The… Continue reading
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