Worthy with failure

Worthy with failure

The biggest F word of my life has been Failure. Up until recently, I treated that word the way some people treat the other F word. When it came to myself, I NEVER said it. In the first part of my adult life, I didn’t say it because it just wasn’t an option for me....
Five Signs Your Past is Affecting Your Happiness Today

Five Signs Your Past is Affecting Your Happiness Today

We all want to feel like survivors of the bad stuff that’s happened to us. Since we’re here, I guess we are survivors. However, surviving and thriving are pretty different. Even though you might want to put your head in the air, straight arm the past, and never...
Dropping the Weight

Dropping the Weight

We all keep secrets. I’ve never in my life met someone who hasn’t kept a secret from someone. Maybe it’s a huge one like being a victim of sexual abuse or having a drug problem. But maybe it’s just a smaller one like how you really feel about something. Why do we do...
If Casseroles Can’t Fix This, What Can?

If Casseroles Can’t Fix This, What Can?

I heard terrible news a few weeks ago. Awful, devastating, heart-breaking… the worst kind of news. But someone else’s news. My pain was my heart breaking for a friend. It was the projection of how profoundly this will affect people. And it was a realization of how my...
My Secret Shame

My Secret Shame

Let’s talk about bad habits. You know, those unhealthy things we do over and over and over and over. They come in all shapes and forms and I’ve certainly had my share of them. One of those was smoking. I know, okay, totally disgusting. But there it is. When I was in...