For a long time, I felt deeply inadequate as a person. I was missing something important. As a grown adult, I was incapable of tying my shoes, or riding a bike, or jumping rope. What twenty-nine year-old can't tie her own shoes? See, I had...
There's this one scene in the movie Pretty Woman where Vivian is lying in bed with Edward. The dialogue goes like this: Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it. Edward: I think you are a very bright, very special woman. Vivian: The bad stuff...
The other day, my daughters and I were out for an afternoon stroll. I almost always take my camera on walks and on this day, at the last minute, decided to put on my macro lens {for really close up shots}. I never intended to...
I am enough. I am struggling with those words. I have struggled with those words for a long time and never realized it. But now, today, it seems to be particularly nagging at me. My head – that logical side – screams, “Of course, you’re enough! Don’t...
I can’t point to any time in my life when I actually, really felt like I was enough of anything. I was always the oddball in my family, and although they laughed about it and didn’t seem really bothered, I always knew I wasn’t normal...
Am I Enough? I Am Enough! This flag banner hangs above my bed as a testament to that idea. I see it when I get up, when I get dressed, when I go to bed. It reminds me to keep believing even when my self-talk...
As a young girl and adolescent I was tall, skinny, and flat-chested. On top of that I was very shy. Scared- of- my- own- shadow shy. As a preacher’s kid I thought everyone was watching me, holding me up to some unclear standard, and then judging...
For thirty years I thought it was my accomplishments, my resume, my brass rings that made me enough. My father said a thousand times that my greatest skill was “doing just well enough to get to the next thing,” and I took that to heart. ...
When I was young, I was told many truths about myself: "Your hair is so thick and curly -- it's not good hair. In fact, I've never seen such unmanageable hair!""Your lips are really huge. You need to keep that in mind when you start wearing...
photo of Kelly Rae courtesy of Andrea Scher I’m not sure why it never occurred to me before, but the biggest thing I’ve learned about myself this year is this: I am a perfectionista. And it sort of sucks. I’m realizing that I go WAY above and...