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You don't need to earn rest. You don't need to justify joy. You don't need anyone's permission to choose yourself. But if you've been waiting for someone to tell you it's okay, consider this your sign. I want to ask you something, and I'd love for you to sit with it for a moment before you answer. When was the last time you did something just for you? Not because you thought you should. Not because it made you more productive. Not because it helped someone else. Not because y

Me at my local swimming beach Hello Beautiful Soul, As I sit here today in reflection of the last few years, I certainly have been on a very big journey. When I think about sharing that journey, I hope of helping even just one person feel a little less alone and feel a little more seen. And, maybe eventually a little more themselves, know they are enough and they are beautiful just as they are. Maybe that one person is you… I wonder where to start, then I remember I already h

As a 45 year old queer woman, who really only "came out" as they say just over 2 years ago, I am still finding my feet and my place in the world. Learning how to show up without wearing a mask and hiding behind it. I was brought up in the world where to be "normal" was to be heterosexual, the only way to become a mother was to find a man to marry him and have his babies ... I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I was brought up by a single mother and every other weekend with

I am a woman in my mid-life and I am engaged to marry a beautiful woman also in her mid-life. Falling in love with Toni, I also found myself. I feel more myself than ever, I feel unconditionally loved and accepted completely as myself. I am a mother of two teenage girls and I was married to their father for 17-years. I was raised by a single-mother, and I never wanted to be a single-mother, some would say I stayed longer than I should have, others might say I didn’t fight har