Back in October I stumbled across a blog post that changed my life. It was The French Girl’s Guide to Self Care and I can’t tell what made me want to click on the link. I was on Pinterest and the pin for the article was there but something made me click. Once I did…
Self Confessions
Embracing Your Mess Part 2
For those of you coming into this post it is best to start with the first part prior to reading this one. Although this could be read by itself, it does start in the middle of the story and you will feel like you are missing something important.
Embracing Your Mess Part 1
This year I am embracing who I am and not who everyone thinks I need to be. My life is a mess and, it is mine. In all, it’s uncertainty, confusion, beauty, and struggle. Life is hard in the best of times. Add in years of being who others expect you to be and, you…
Run the Year Challenge
This year I did a thing or rather I am doing a thing. No it is not actually running even though that is what the challenge is called. It is the Run the Year Challenge and I was excited when I found this back in October of last year. I had watched a piece on…
Better Off Without Me
I will freely admit that there have been moments in my life when I thought that very thing. that my family and those around me would be better off if I was no longer here. They didn’t need me to keep messing up their lives. Of course, from the outside looking in you would have…
30 Days of Me: Day 7
Finally one last post in the 30 Days of Me from 2013 that I thought I would repost for day 21 of the 25 Days of Me . The prompt for this was What does your name mean? Why were you named what you were named? I had to look up what my name actually means because…
Food, Glorious Food | 25 Days of Me
On day 20 of the 25 Days of Me I wanted to say, if you didn’t already know, that I love food. I’m talking food is one of the things I will straight up attend a gathering for and I hate going to those. It is also one of hte things I love about the holidays the…
Something No One Knows: 25 Days of Me
This was another 30 Days of Me from 2013 that I thought I would repost for day 19 of the 25 Days of Me . The prompt for this was simply Something about yourself no one knows about you. I shared something that was a bit TMI maybe but it got a good response. I thought I…
When No One is Looking: 25 Days of Me
Welcome to day 17 of the 25 Days of Me and I thought I would share this post again that I originally wrote in 2012. I did a little updating to it as well and I will say this is something that I still do. Do you have something that you do when no one is watching? …
Childhood Plans: 25 Days of Me
It’s day 16 of the 25 Days of Me and today I wanted to reshare this post from 2012. I wrote this as I was looking back on my childhood dreams and plans. That I learned was that life took me in a different direction altogether. What did you want to be when you grew up? I…










