It’s so easy to not feel like enough. It’s so easy to focus on our shortcomings, our faults, the cracks in our being. The things that people might see. The things that might make someone love us a little less. Why is that so easy?...
Rhythm of enough. Chanting gently lulls. A mantra sweetly moves into a rhythm and groove. A little girl perched along the sideline, under the glow of the Friday night lights. A little blonde chickadee, cheering her beloved pops and his boys on. Enough.You are Enough. The chant hums melting into...
Enough Not Enough Not enough is old news and a scar. Words flew out of unkind mouths, blew through my ears, and took root in my heart -- the strongest kinds of weeds with seeds strong enough for decades of growth through bone and concrete. Not enough’s...
For Today, I Am Enough I wonder, at times, just what I had expected of the journey to my “enough”-ness. Perhaps that it would arrive as a single “Aha!” moment or a tingling, shimmering awareness. I’m almost certain that I expected it to stay once...
Although I have hundreds of images from this summer, this (taken at our campsite) is the one that stops me in my tracks. Together, telling, timeless. This month at Shutter Sisters we're celebrating and sharing a number of ways in which we all Elevate the...
I AM ENOUGH I am. I breathe. In more shallowly than out. I am more than what you see, I am more than what I say, I am more than what they spit. I am skin and flesh and spark and thought. I am soft. I am here. I am fear sometimes, bundled up...
I have been musing on this post for quite some time, highly anticipating my leg of the Shot@Life Blogust Blog Relay for Good since it was announced with a video that gave me chills. What would I share? What one story could I possibly tell that...
There. Will be a time. In your. Life. When you will be. Stripped bare. In ways you cannot. Imagine. There will be a time when the fire comes. For you. This is a story. About. Me. When my fire came. Calling. But it is. About....
Things have changed over here lately as you may have noticed. Wheeeee! I'm excited with all of this forward motion. From the launch of Elevate the Everyday, to the companion series at Paper Coterie, to my new website, and a number of exciting projects on...
At an adorable tiny brick building oak tree college on the far eastern edge, women feel inadequate. I felt inadequate, while I called it home. Who can tell the moment that it begins? Swarming around me were overachievers. They over-exercised, over-analyzed, over-worked, over-stressed. And under-ate. In their...