Category: Human Experience
A human experience is why we have come to this world. We came here to deal with the messy emotions and to experience the struggle. We did not come here to be perfect.
Human beings, unlike other species, have a conscious awareness of their own mortality. Our human experience covers the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life.
Humans are aware of the irony that they are both brilliant and aberrant, sensitive and savage, exquisitely caring and painfully indifferent, remarkably creative and incredibly destructive to self and others.
National Previvor Day
Today is National Previvor Day, right in the middle of Nation Hereditary Cancer week. On September 15, 2010, history was made with the unanimous passage of H. Res. 1522. The Congressional resolution declaring the first-ever National Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) Week and National Previvor Day. Last year, FORCE renamed the week to recognize […]
Do You Need the Approval of Others?
Free Yourself from Needing the Approval of Others Since we were children, most of us learned that it could be advantageous to make others happy. Most children want the approval of their parents, teachers, and peers. We tend to carry that same tendency into adulthood. While it’s natural to seek the approval of others, sometimes […]
Let’s Talk About Your Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual Wellness Can Create Balance in Your Life Spiritual wellness is not something we speak a lot about. So I ask you this question. Are you searching for deeper spiritual meaning in your life? You’re not alone; the hectic demands of life in the 21st-century has made many people feel disconnected. Perhaps what you need […]
The fear of losing love…
Fear of losing love is one of the things us human’s struggle with. Let go and trust that something else is coming to fill our purpose.
Don’t call me BRAVE…
Originally I wrote this on March 23, 2019. Today I understand how brave I was to make these decisions about my life. It was a very difficult two years of my life. Since then I have learned bravery is pushing through the fear and doing what is necessary. Even if you are terrified. In the […]
The Benefits of Failure and Imagination
This post was originally posted on September 20, 2016. I think it means even more today than then. Let yourself decide what is failure is and not what others define. Failure strips away the unnecessary in your life. It makes you focus on what really matters to you. It sets you free. You may not […]
Bravery sometimes is not giant moves…
Bravery is not always easy. I can tell you that I am not always brave. Today I put it out there for you. Over time I have learned that it is fear that often stops us from being brave. To be brave is scary and overwhelming. Your body makes you want to run and hide […]
Stephen Colbert on Grief and Loss
I have been enjoying Stephen Colbert a lot on late night. George and I often watch his monologues (albeit a day or two later) before bed. He is a well known comedian, his discussion about grief and loss with Anderson Cooper is particularly enlightening. What I hadn’t known is that when he was ten he […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy to Women
The only way we can honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to carry forth her legacy of equality, empathy, and justice.
Post Surgery Struggles
I see other women who go through it and it appears so easy for them. Then I see the difference, they are in their 30’s and I am in my 50’s.