There is a frantic energy of preciousness to hovering around your life, picking at yourself as you tell yourself to stand up straight or reprimanding yourself for saying the wrong thing. The buzzing around your own shoulders as you become the helicopter mother to your own life, wiping schmutz off your face with your spit … Read more
Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? {Anita Diamant, The Red Tent} When we plant the seeds of creation, we dig holes deep enough that the tender … Read more
There are two important days in a woman’s life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. {Terry Tempest Williams} I see you. I see you wise and ready and deep. I see you in your fear and jubilation as you unload the dishwasher, wipe sweat off of your brow, close … Read more
It is our job to tell ourselves the truth about our lives. It is our job to pause and be present with ourselves. It is our job to evaluate how things went… so that we can do them in a way that is more aligned with our values and desires next time. It is our … Read more
Become the one person in the world that you aren’t too much for. That is the invitation. When she passed away, they told the children that dying was like being in a room filled with radiant sunlight. That the sun was so bright that it consumed her, turning her into a light beam. Sometimes that’s … Read more