I haven’t found my true home yet.” When someone says “I’m homesick”, often we assume they are in some foreign land, sighing in desperation: “Oh how I miss the weather, the people, the food, the comfort of my bed…” Then when they return home, guess what? They’re still homesick. I’ve struggled to describe that feeling [...]
Sometimes, all you need is to take a break and work on yourself. If you’ve experienced emotional pain or trauma, you know that healing is a process. And just like a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, you too must undergo a period of transformation in order to emerge as a stronger, more resilient version of [...]
Cody Kinzie Everybody! Currently Infesting Ronan Montana
To my broken sense of self Hey. . . I know you’re not doing okay by any means, but I just wanted to let you know that I love you. I know that I don’t say it nearly enough, if ever, even when I know it’s what you need from me. But I just can’t give [...]
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." - Rumi. Have you ever felt like you're slowly losing yourself in the chaos of life? That your true self is slipping away as you try to meet the demands of society? It's easy to lose yourself in the [...]
I wish I could hate you; It’s funny, I never thought I’d be writing this post yet here I am, hurting, crying, and breaking and it’s entirely my own fault. Against my better judgement, I let you in, I held onto hope, onto faith and onto wishes that I wanted so desperately to come true. [...]
I hope you’re at peace, as much at peace as you can be under the circumstances. I hope you’re eating well and taking care of yourself physically. I hope you have the basic necessities — not including the one you’re more than likely substituting with a bottle of lotion and a smutty magazine — and [...]
Today, on my daughters 7th birthday, am finally going to admit something that I have never been strong enough to say out loud. I did not wish for a daughter because I never thought I would be good enough for her. Let me explain why. My Mom and I were never very close and I [...]
I know how you’re feeling. I know the exhaustion that stretches across your skin and the emptiness returning to your chest after a long year. It has been a long one. You’ve survived so much. I know you want to huddle in bed right now instead of writing this, but I also know you ache [...]
This isn't the end, only the beginning. I’ve been there. You’re feeling confused and in a slump because you have no idea when it happened. Life got busy, you got overwhelmed, and you started to lose yourself in the midst of everything else going on in your world. The moment when you started noticing that [...]
Perfectly Imperfect 