This article was originally written with the intent of helping those of us encountering family and friends around the holidays whose discomfort with conversing about our divorce or separation was painful to be around. However, after re-reading it, I believe what I...
Sure, sure, sure it makes absolute sense that a recent study has correlated that women who are confident about their bodies are more likely to have happy, healthy relationships. That no brainer is tricky for the majority of us when we are exposed excessively to...
People always look at you after you have gone through a divorce, and they really want to know and see within you that you are, indeed, happy. My dad asks me all the time, "You're happy, right?" Hell yeah I'm happy! Whew! Quite the journey, but happy, joyous, in...
I get it. I do. I understand that my ideas for parenting seem “different” than what other people think. Ultimately, I truly don’t care what anyone else “thinks”. At the end of the day, they are my kids during my custodial time, and I am graced to be the one who...
It's been two years now since I sat in my apartment when it was new to me and my custody of the children was a whopping 30% even though the children were living only 10 minutes away the other 70% of the time with their Dad. As one can imagine, it was a pretty...
I had been sleeping for months on an inflatable mattress on the floor of a small room that had once been the office of my ex-grandfather in law. I had carved it out as my office in a desperate struggle to find something in the house that was mine. The room appeared...
It was covered in yellow vinyl siding suffocating the life and breath of it’s inner beauty. We rescued this 1940’s small two bedroom one bath family home both from the vinyl in the front and the ivy trying to crawl over it from the back in 1999 when it became ours....
