Sometimes we wear our traumas and tragedies and losses like a badge of honor. Our misery on display for all to see, as if it were some kind of twisted accomplishment. We do not mean to do this. People do not mean to “honor” us like this, for this, and yet,...
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What is self-care really, anyway? I thought I knew about self-care. I thought I knew how to “take care of myself” long before I ever even heard the term self-care. I realize now after 41 years of circling the sun that no one ever really taught me about how...
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God gives me moments of connection frequently that leave me breathless. Last night, for instance, we arrived from Honolulu to San Francisco to spend a couple days sightseeing in San Francisco before returning home to the East Coast. When I ordered our car...
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She changed. She learned to romanticize her life, accepting even the tragic events in her romance. She put herself around people that also lived from their hearts. She made peace with herself and her story. She learned how and why and when to argue. She...
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“You need to get out of your head and live in your heart.” -Kathy Humphreys “God commands you to pray but forbids you to worry.” “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace.”...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.