For years I’ve driven my kids, but at some point they become the driver. The transition is a little jarring. You remind yourself constantly that you’ve prepped them the best you can. But at some point you have to let them take the wheel and become the passenger. Then with a little more time they …
Category Archives: strength
Baggage
Perspective and the cages we build or escape from. The uneasy alliance of pain and empathy building is the high wire for emotional trauma or growth. No life is without the negative, or the positive its just seeing the positive and acknowledging the negative. When I head into choppy water I know to bring my …
Love
Love is a funny word, its definition is completely personal. Love can describe a new passion, and love can define a relationship that’s stood the test of time. My understanding of this phenomenon has changed through the years. It seems the more you give the more you deepen this meaning to yourself. When you find …
Move
I believe everyone has a way they move, like a dance. A rhythm built in you find in a mundane task or something fantastic. Art, music, and creation of any kind. It grabs you where you are and can happily simplify your internal compass. We all have wants, needs, and somehow this slides in tight …
When Weakness Becomes Strength
Water is not stronger than steel but it doesn’t hold onto a collision of conscience like steel. Flexibility and adaptability are paramount in perception. Trauma doesn’t usually have a happy ending, its strength at bending us like putty can be devastating. Perspective can be seriously impacted. Unlike water which ebbs and flows through life. Steel …
