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We interrupt our regularly scheduled program for a quick message from our sponsor: Puffy is broadcasting live from the inside of her chewy tunnel 🙃 Just kidding. As much as I would love to make her responsible for this, it’s really all me 🤦‍♀️ I’m hopping on for a second to report that I haveContinue reading “The way forward”

Full moon pic and jellyfish photo shoot from where they washed up after a storm 😮 Oh, and a quote from my book! I just finished the rough draft 🙌 “As a general rule, the human experience is meant to be witnessed, allowed, and supported, as opposed to analyzed, dissected, and pathologized. I’ve seen howContinue reading “Excerpt from the book!”

I was catching up with a friend last night over the phone, & they asked, “What was the highlight of your trip to Austin?” Of course, there were a million, as I was there for a month, but in that moment, all I could think to say was, “Galveston.” 🙃 If you’re not familiar withContinue reading “Guess who’s writing a book 🙃”

All is well in the morning light 🪷✨️ I sent this picture to a friend and was going to caption it: “All the hell this little thing has put us through.” 😅 But then I thought better and changed it to “All of our own hell she has mirrored back to us.” 🙃 See, PuffyContinue reading “Symptom bearers”

This has been one of the hardest lessons of my entire life. Over the past few years, I’ve learned to gauge potential for change by assessing how committed the person is to their protector parts and harmful behavior. If they’re still viewing the behaviors as protective and themselves as someone who needs protecting (victim consciousness),Continue reading “The likelihood of change”

. ..but leave a canoe? 🤔😉 I listened to a podcast a few night ago where a man discussed the concept of symbols and the importance of putting something into place on the physical plane to anchor your intention- or to show you mean business, basically. He was specifically talking about marriage and how, forContinue reading “Burn the ships”

One last thing: (follow-up to previous entry) The reason I said that lack of self-respect isn’t solely responsible for keeping someone in a challenging relationship is that increasing self-respect doesn’t always result in them leaving it. If something is causing something else, then fixing that thing should result in an end to the thing thatContinue reading “Me again 🙋‍♀️”

Okay I don’t know where this fits in (certainly not with anything I’m “supposed” to be doing today, lol) but I’d like to take a sec to explore something, and potentially suggest a decoupling of sorts. There’s an idea that is very prevalent in healing spaces, particularly therapeutic settings, that if someone respects themselves, theyContinue reading “Is it really about self-respect?”

A recent conversation with a friend brought to mind the overlap between organized religion & the mental health system. In both of them, you’ll find representatives or “agents of the ststem” using a chosen text to determine other peoples’ level of either virtue or mental well-being. However, I’ve noticed something: The more healed I become,Continue reading “Overlap between organized religion and the mental health system”

Im taking a break from the more serious posts to share a recent knitting project and guinea pig photo shoot 🙃 The knitting “project” was actually just an inventory of all my yarn and half-finished scarves. ..I realized I buy new yarn and needles nearly every time I travel; with the exception of the recentContinue reading “Birthing our gifts”