What is it like to be alive, feel alive? Sometimes feeling alive is just plain painful. The moments and experiences are a constant reminder of your life and its unpleasantness. Kinda like a splinter in your foot that you cannot remove, each step is a sharp or dull sensation that reminds you of its presence. … Continue reading Living a Painfully Beautiful Life
Month: October 2017
On Being a Broken Woman: Me Too
I never copy and paste on Facebook but this week I had to. ME TOO It struck a deep deep cord within me and I knew I had to speak. I had to speak for women and girls everywhere who have been harmed by men that assume a place of power over their body. I … Continue reading On Being a Broken Woman: Me Too
To Live with Passion
I have been doing a lot of thinking these past days...well weeks/months. Lately a single phrase has come to mind over and over. Passion. I want to have passion. I want to have a passion. To experience passion....to be passionate. To be full of passion. 1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love … Continue reading To Live with Passion
Reference Points and the Gift of Loneliness
Loneliness. If there is one word to describe widowhood and life for me right now, that would be it. I know I am not alone in this, so many who have lost loved ones struggle with the aloneness. If you look up synonyms for loneliness these are a few of the words you will find: … Continue reading Reference Points and the Gift of Loneliness
Life in the Here and Now
Work, work, work, work, work....I know you are humming that tune in your head now. If it gets stuck there well..... I have changed jobs and am working the most regular hours I have worked in years, even if the are not really regular by comparison to the non-medical world. I also was working both … Continue reading Life in the Here and Now