Almost ten years ago, I began seeing a therapist. I knew I had a problem with alcohol, but I didn’t know a thing about being codependent.
He asked me a simple question. A question that
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Archives for July 2020
How the caregiver impacts the child
So many of you write to me sharing your✨ aha ✨ moment after looking through inner child inspired posts like this one. 6 years ago I began reflecting on my childhood. Not
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Overstimulation in adults
I am highly sensitive, and when I had children I found myself irritated often, but I didn’t quite understand why. What I’ve learned through being conscious of THEIR
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The way you treat your child…
When I first became a mama, I carried a ton of shame + insecurity and I took that out on her. I wanted her to perform and fill the spaces that ached inside of me. I
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No toxic people, only toxic patterns
I’ve realized that I was never toxic. Instead, I carried toxic patterns. Patterns like gossiping, ghosting, using drugs, promiscuity, lying, gas lighting, etc to protect
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Honoring parents
A little extension of what I shared in my stories yesterday. The top question I receive on IG is “but how do I honor/respect/love my parents and still live my truth?” The
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Just let go
-Mark Nepo. His brilliance + poetic craft get me every time. He has a way of explaining very complex feelings, in simple, tangible, digestible ways. Thankful. “When
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A healing parent’s cheat sheet
My first born broke me wide open. 💔 She disrupted all I knew to be true about myself, my beliefs, my reality. She challenged the depths of my willingness to surrender, to
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Just because they didn’t know how to love you…
Every relationship teaches us something. My hope is that that “something,” isn’t that you are unworthy of love. Relationships end for a variety of reasons, usually having
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Anxiety
I’ve been very open about my struggle with addiction in the past. However the further I’ve gotten away from numbing, the more I’ve realized that my problem was actually
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