Oh How I Remember That Phrase Our minds never seem to clock out. Thoughts stream through all day long. Some inspire us. Others criticize us, predict disaster, or replay conversations we'd rather forget. The surprising part is that not every thought deserves to be believed. For years, I treated every thought as if it were... Continue Reading →

Codependency: The Legacy Nobody Asked For

In my twenties, I got diagnosed with codependency. I thought, “Perfect. Now I’m fixed.” Spoiler: forty years later, still working on it. Apparently, healing doesn’t come with an instruction manual—or a return policy. Fast-forward to today. I’ve got three grown kids. I wanted to leave them a legacy, but codependency? Yeah, not exactly the family... Continue Reading →

Scammed

Just When You Thought It couldn’t get worse—or so I thought. But then it did. It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop, and just when you think you’ve steadied yourself, there it is, thudding to the floor. Every day since, the reality has sunk in a little deeper, and with it, the weight... Continue Reading →

The Tip Of The Iceberg

Do You Ever Get So Angry You Want to Cry? I do. And I hate it. Because when I’m angry, the last thing I want to do is cry like a baby—or at least that’s how it feels. But it happened to me this past week, over something so small it sounds ridiculous just to... Continue Reading →

It’s All In Your Head

In 1999, my life changed with a single phone call. It was a day in September when the doctor called to deliver the diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. I remember holding the phone, the room suddenly feeling colder, the words echoing in my mind. How cold and impersonal it felt, to hear such life-altering news over the... Continue Reading →

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