Trying to navigate spaces as your fully authentic self with people who are reserved and calculated with their interactions leads to some form of malfunction. For me, my malfunction revolved around processing the deep emotional hurts that didn’t seem to derive from real interactions or full conversations.
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Learning to Trust Myself Again
These last several years of my life have been about relearning, revisiting, rewriting and starting over. I spent well over a decade prior to this phase letting go of people, hopes, dreams and ideas. All of life is a process and I’ve generally stopped fighting against my cycles years ago. The New Gig The dayContinueContinue reading “Learning to Trust Myself Again”
A Note About Personal Agency
We all have responsibility for our own lives. People assume we give up that agency when we enter certain agreements and relationships – employment, romantic, parental, friend, etc.
Give Yourself Permission to Be Uncertain
This is about fragility, vulnerability, uncertainty, poor decisions and giving yourself permission to do things over when you’re in a better mental state.
People who hide themselves are impossible to know.
She can’t trust me to know what she likes because she has never really shared any of her true self with me. At least not in recent memory. She has hidden away in anger and hatefulness for so long, no one can see anything else.
People who hide themselves are impossible to know.
She can’t trust me to know what she likes because she has never really shared any of her true self with me. At least not in recent memory. She has hidden away in anger and hatefulness for so long, no one can see anything else.
Starting off fresh.
Reflection, self-evaluation and goal-setting have long been part of my year-end process. What’s new is showing myself some TLC while allowing myself time and space to process my life.
Wonder
In all the ways life comes at us, in the countless ways we analyze our lives, we rarely give ourselves the benefit of wonder.
When was the last time you felt surprise and wonder at the beautiful creation you are? When was the last time you embraced the unfamiliar and inexplicable in your life?
“I Am Enough” II Spoken Word
“He had 99 problems, but death wasn’t one. And it wasn’t any strangers, He sent His only Son.”
Desert of Solitude: Elevator Pitch
Desert of Solitude is for the dreamers and strivers. The people who may have achieved nothing, something or a great deal, but that “one thing” continues to elude them. What is it that you want from life, in life or through your life? What do you think you’re missing? What do you believe will complete your existence?
It doesn’t matter. Whatever “it” is, you are enough for your life as you are now.
Harvest Life 