What will people think? Four little words that have probably influenced more decisions than we'd ever care to admit. We ask them before making big changes. Before walking away from something that no longer feels right. Before pursuing something that makes absolutely no sense to anyone but us. Sometimes we don't even have to ask. … Continue reading The Art of Disappointing Ourselves →

We live. We die. And somewhere between those two things, we try to make sense of what it means to have been here. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Not dying, necessarily. Living. And how much of it slips through our fingers while we're busy trying to figure everything out. It's strange, isn't … Continue reading The In Between →

I almost talked myself out of being kind today. Not because I didn't mean it. Not because someone didn't deserve it. But because somewhere along the way, I started believing that showing people I care might make me too much. And I sat there wondering when the hell that happened to me. When did telling … Continue reading I Don’t Want to Become Less →

For most of my life, I thought the problem was that I kept choosing the wrong people. And I did. I loved hard. Too hard sometimes. Too fast. I could make someone important before they had done anything to earn that kind of place in my life. I changed plans. Made room. Ignored things I … Continue reading Somewhere Along the Way, I Lost My Own Voice →

For a long time, I thought becoming stronger meant learning how to carry more. More disappointment.More responsibility.More hurt.More of the things I didn’t know how to ask anyone else to hold. So I got good at it. I became the woman who could handle things.The one who figured it out.The one everyone came to when … Continue reading The Things I Get to Put Down →