The Power of a Healing Cocoon

My lavender eye bag atop my weighted blanket (author photo) I have slowly exited a personal hell… no other way to put it. Two weeks ago, when I sought a loving in-person conversation after asking for a couple months of the most serious and honest reflection of...

My Words for 2026: Intentional. Love. Release.

It’s the beginning of a brand new year! For me, the start of a new year is like opening a new journal or notebook with clean, fresh pages, and a beckoning of those pages to be filled with what’s calling to us: More rest. More travel. More love…...

The Warmth Came Back…

  Sometimes–many times–life gets complicated. Things happen outside our control, and we choose how we respond. Other times we just complicate our lives. And many times, we complicate our lives in response to something that happens outside of our...

This Is Us…Or Should Be

Confession: I have never watched the popular TV series “This Is Us,” which ran for nearly six years. Many of my friends never missed an episode, but me? Nope. Never watched it. I was thinking about that phrase yesterday–this is us–as my...