“As I was walking to the mall, I felt this palpable sense of delight and satisfaction slowly, surprisingly blooming. I was so pleased with myself, so happy at the thought of indulging with a few minutes and a few dollars just for myself. No maximizing of time and effort, no stacking of household errands and must-dos to justify the twenty-minute trip. Just letting loose for a little bit.” #permission #selflove #stayathomemom #motherhood
Author: lea
Perimenopause can happen in your early forties or younger, and it can show as anxiety or brain fog. It’s more than hot flashes, and it can show up earlier than you thought it would.
She showed everyone how an aspin or any native or mongrel dog is as beautiful and as worthy of care and respect as any purebred.
Old me would have been complaining about how exhausted I am mentally and emotionally. But strangely, I have been able to stay calmer and gentler with myself, better able to slow down, to say no, to simply be.
There is something so special, so powerful about how a novel or a storybook transports you to a magical place, a different time, an imagined reality as you’re in the comforts of your home or sitting in the train for an hour-long commute. There’s something fair, just, and good about being able to visit places and meet faces with just the cost of a bus ride and a library card.
I left the funeral with a heart filled with grief and a head filled with the enormous, urgent task of calling on all of us – parents, guardians, adults, humans of the world – to take care of the children…
How I wish no one else would become a survivor of suicide loss. One suicide is one too many, and the pain it leaves behind ripples deep and wide and stays for years and years.
How do we celebrate Christmas now during this unusual and unrehearsed time of our lives? How do we go about this holiday season that’s traditionally filled with happy, colorful places and lovely, familiar faces, with exchanges of hugs and kisses as well as food and gifts but is now expected to be tempered by pandemic health and safety protocols, by sadness and grief over personal and practical losses?
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To my dear blog readers, followers, subscribers: First of all, thank you for reading my blog, whether it be one post, a few random posts […] Read More