On Tuesday night I shared how my marriage is really messed up, how I was feeling completely hopeless, and what happened to completely change my perspective. On Wednesday night I shared how I did something different, and how for the first time in many, many, many months, my husband and I finally had a good […]
Sound Mind Sound Body
Hope, Mercy, And The Power Of Forgiveness
My marriage is really fucked up. It is unhealthy and troubled, and it has been that way for a long, long time. My husband and I go through varying levels of dysfunction, and the past few months have been at like Level 10 Fuckupedness. There hasn’t been any infidelity. There is no addiction. Just an […]
I Got In The Picture And I Liked It.
This is one of the only pictures I have of myself with the kids for about a six year time period. It’s a terrible picture of me. And when I saw it, I silently decided I would not be in any other pictures for an indefinite period of time because it was just so awful. […]
Because Mom Guilt Is Bullsh*t
One of my goals is to help women, and moms in particular, to reclaim their inner badass. I think it’s so easy to lose this once you have kids. Initially, it’s kind of required to focus solely on the kids. You need to make it all about the baby in the first few months. But […]
Because I LOVE my body, not because I hate it.
I started writing this post but it was kind of sounding like a third grader’s narrative story with a whole bunch of thoughts and details that aren’t really all that interesting or pertinent to the story really. So let me start again and be as to the point as I can be. Six years ago […]
My Simple (and perfect) Thanksgiving
When I was a kid we’d have these epic Thanksgivings with like thirty relatives and we had two or three tables strung together and I loved it. It was like the Thanksgivings you’d see in the movies. Over the years, our Thanksgiving celebrations have dwindled down to less and less people. Relatives moved away, great […]