Tag: family
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“You Can’t Have it All”
Discover how honoring your season of life as a woman can empower you to pursue your goals, find balance, and embrace your future with confidence.
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Blueberry Pie
A heartfelt reflection on emotional giving, this poetic piece uses the metaphor of baking pies to explore themes of love, self-worth, and the quiet exhaustion of one-sided relationships. Perfect for readers seeking comfort, introspection, and emotional validation.
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Dear Future Kids
Excerpt: We’ve all admired the couple who has been together since their teenage years—sharing inside jokes, reading each other’s minds, and humbly bragging about their decades of love. But for most of us, that fairy tale isn’t our story. And that’s okay. Our journey is filled with heartbreaks, solo milestones, and hard-earned lessons, making the…
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The Mashed Potatoes That Transcended Generational Curses
Generational curses might be real, but so are generational blessings. My family’s history is marked by divisions among the women, but one thing made it through unbroken: Grandma’s potatoes. As I peeled, shredded, and baked, I reflected on the invisible threads connecting generations past. If these potatoes could make it through, maybe there’s hope for…
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When Your All Doesn’t Feel Like Enough
Feeling like your best effort isn’t enough? Here’s a reflection on hustle culture, the Thanksgiving mindset shift, and the power of gratitude for personal growth. “When your all doesn’t feel like enough, the answer is not to give more. The answer is to be still.” “As we progress through life, there will always be those…
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A Silver Lining of “Imperfect” Parents
Family dynamics are pretty complex things in today’s day and age. One of the joys—I say that with sarcasm—of being a twenty something is experiencing a drastic change in our relationship with our parents. For some of us, this change can be attributed to growing pains and for others it is something much more significant.…
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“I Love Jesus and I Say Fuck”
I’ve been wanting to write this article for some time now but never really got around to it. Yes, the title is a little abrupt but that was exactly my goal. At some point when we shift from teenager life to young adulthood we move out from home and start gaining some form of independence.…
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The Quarter Life Crisis
We have all heard of the mid-life crisis most of our dads have gone through or are soon going to go through. Somewhere in their mid-forties, they decide to put back on their skinny jeans from 2002, sign up for a half marathon, and shop around for sports cars. The mid-life crisis is not about…
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Head to Toe
I decided to make a mix it up a little to share a little bit more about myself. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my “true self” and what in my life truly has meaning to me and this popped in my head! I thought it would be fun to share the meaning behind…
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Everyone has a Dysfunctional Family, right?
When we were younger and we complained about our family dynamic we were told that “no one’s family was perfect, that every family had their share of baggage”. The older we got the more we realized that while everyone has dysfunction, some families were more screwy than others. Looking around at what others were going…
Now What? 