Passage To Finding Me: My Journey Home.
Join me as a fellow traveler on this journey
Some women collect shoes. Some collect handbags. Apparently, I collect medical equipment. At last count, I had four leg braces and four walkers. Eight pieces of equipment—all designed to help one pair of legs cooperate. You might wonder why anyone needs four walkers. Believe me, so do I. There is the everyday walker, the backup... Continue Reading →
There comes a point when you get tired of trying. Not tired of living.Not tired of hoping.Just tired of trying so hard to make everything work. Trying to make people understand you.Trying to keep everyone happy.Trying to fix relationships you didn’t break.Trying to be strong when you’re exhausted.Trying to become the person you think everyone else... Continue Reading →
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 →
Some of the fires we walk through or get close to weren’t ever made to burn us. We judge each spark by our past experiences. Hindsight is always 20/20, we can see where we made the wrong or right decision. If we allow the fire to purify us from the inside out, we grow. If... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
