(Letting Go Can Bite Me.) This is How We Forgive.
I’m sitting here realizing something: that I will never, ever be able to let go. Ever. Letting go can bite me. For real. But I need to forgive. I just sat down to talk with my best...
Category: How to Love & Be Loved.
15 Songs: Music to Hold a Tired Heart. {Videos}
My shoulders ache. My neck is tight. They’re sore from holding up my tired and aching heart. The world isn’t always an easy place to inhabit. It can rub a sensitive soul the wrong...
Life (& Happiness) Happen When We Make Other Plans (& Stop Aiming for Perfection).
Well, today didn’t exactly go as planned. My not-feeling-so-hot daughter stayed home from school this morning, nixing my own plans. This isn’t the biggest deal. Rather, it’s more of a stringing series of happenings...
5 Tips: How to Become the Heroes of Our Own Stories.
I can be an extremely “heady” person. I often get stuck in my thoughts and inside of my mind and, I swear, it almost feels at times like I’ve forgotten that I even have...
8 Ways to Say ‘I Love You’ Without Words.
I began dating my husband even before I began high school. We had celebrated our tenth anniversary and made our first cross-country move before we said “I do.” With our seventh wedding anniversary recently...
10 Things You Should Do Every Day.
Daily Mini-Resolutions I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. Why? Because I think we should be working on self-improvement and overall life satisfaction on a regular basis, rather than on some arbitrary date. Having said that—in...
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before.
I used to occasionally hold hands with my best friend in high school in the hallways, walking from class to class. I remember one time another student asking if we were lesbians, and, quite...
How to Heal a Broken Heart.
How to fall apart, and then pick the pieces back up—and love. This is part two in a new elephant journal series about love. To be fair, we never truly heal from broken hearts. Like...
How to Fly (in Love).
Learning how to receive love—and the myth of the giver. Okay, here we go. Why, oh, why do we need to learn how to receive love? For starters, this step is just as important as—if...
How to Rise & Greet the New Year With the Past Locked Firmly Inside Our Hearts.
I was stopped momentarily in my little Silver Jetta the other day at the corner of a quiet road and a busy one. My daughter was in the back in her carseat. It was New...
