My journey on the Path less traveled. Introverted survivor of childhood abuse using writing to “Bring on the thriving!” A little lopsided sometimes, stubborn, but smart enough to know it’s time to truly heal! 🙏🏻❤️
Digging through 30 years worth of dirt, looking for that gem! 👑 ⛏ Memories mostly all lost because that’s what it took to survive. Not a recommended coping mechanism, but one that was needed. 🐛 🦋 #surviving #thriving
Good morning my blogging community! ❤️ I’m figuring my way out on here step by step, trying new apps, different themes, etc. What a dream come true for my writing spirit!
And in that spirit, my prayer for you and for myself is that the spirit of fear has no place in our lives. I’m praying that the peace that we’re meant to have, through God’s help, settles in our soul. There’s no room for fear here! We do have second and third chances,….it’s never too late to be what God meant for us to be.
Love and peace my friends. ❤️ Have a great Tuesday!
There are so many amazing things going on in the world right now, but for today I’m going to pick the one that gave me the goosebumps,…the good kind! Watching Ms. Kathleen Bertrand sing, “If I can help Somebody” at John Lewis’s Remembrance.
Today I’m choosing to educate myself more about Reverend C.T. Vivian and John Lewis’s lives, their journey, their true story as they lived it. I know I’m walking along with a lot of my friends and family making sure we know, we acknowledge, and we prove that they both did make a difference; and that both of their legacy goals of peace and equality through love and education will happen in our lifetime!
#path #recovery #goodtrouble
“Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” #goodtrouble
Words of John Lewis, as reported on 11alive, author, Talia Chiariello.
Forgetting to watch the daily news has become a blessing, a gift to myself,…a true way to allow myself to keep working towards unlearning the negative, the hate that my culture and history has taught me. My mom, the most peaceful, loving, and genuinely caring person I’ve ever known would approve of this list I’m putting together here. That’s my foundation, and she’s going to be my guide when I’m considering any “favorites” to list here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sunday-morning/
A big cup of coffee, my favorite chair, and the 9am Sunday Morning show! It’s become a weekly favorite. ❤️ All of the individual stories aim for truth and platforms based on Love and Education. Every time I watch it I feel like I need to pass specific stories on to everyone I can. It’s the only weekly show that has this positive feeling effect on me right now. Definitely an easy 1st all time favorite for me to list.
Self proclaimed Book loving Nerd! ? Not much time reading the past 20 years related to kids, but trying to make up for it now. We didn’t have a tv until I was about 12,..long story, strict religion,….more on that another time. Top life changing #books I’ve read and can’t say enough amazing things about them: #goodreads
It’s these mornings when you know you didn’t get enough sleep, but you have a full day of work ahead of you. Ok, so there’s a choice, pull yourself up, do what you need to, or stay in bed.
I know myself well enough to know that I have to get up! All or nothing, can’t just stay in bed. Of course, I’m pretty tired while I’m writing this, but my learned childhood survival mentality says “all systems go!”
Not to dwell, but to heal, I’ll try to explain my life puzzle so far in a few words. It took 2 years of weekly therapy, going to meetings, yoga, texts to aunts and close friends, and really slowing down before these words even came to me:
I’m not writing this to pull any sympathy. I’m writing this because I’m just now seeing that my structural foundation, my childhood rock of stability, was smashed and I switched gears to survive.
30 years of fast mode, one foot in front of the other, never looking back,….achieve, achieve, achieve!
My puzzle is starting to finally fill in, the foundational part, the edges that hold it all together. We don’t get to choose most of our childhood path but as healthy adults we do. I’ve never seen myself as healthy. Thankfully the optional path is showing up.
It’s amazing that friends, and even family (because most of my family is pretty distant), would be surprised to hear this. I look healthy, can even sound healthy, as long as I don’t say too much, but that’s coming to an end now.
As long as I can actually get a good nights sleep, get out and physically move once in a while, spend time in devotions, and stay in verbal contact with friends and family,…as long as I make sure to do these things, my mind and body do want to heal.
The missing pieces might never be found, and I’ll need to be ok with that. I can be resourceful, aim to thrive instead of just surviving. There’s definitely no going back for a re-do.
God has always had his hand on me, I just forgot to look up and see it. I’m starting to look again, and it’s amazing what’s there,….what you don’t see if you don’t look. ❤️
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