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.
Dealing With Stray Thoughts
Dealing With Stray Thoughts & Worries At Nighttime Do you ever have one of those nights when you can’t turn your mind off? Where you keep tossing and turning over stray thoughts. We all have days and nights when our busy minds and worries keep us up. Thankfully there are some simple strategies you can […]
Ways to Talk to Strangers Comfortably
Ways to Talk to Strangers Comfortably We spend our childhoods being told to never speak to strangers but then discover as we grow up, we need to do just that, repeatedly. Some strangers are more comfortable to talk to, such as shop clerks or servers in restaurants. Others though, are often more complicated, such as […]
How Independence Helps You Grow
Independence is not about living a lonely life. In fact, it is quite the opposite. When you are independent, you have more freedom to decode and achieve what you want in life. Remember what it was like in your childhood, when you had to depend on the adults in your life for and about everything […]
The Struggle Continues for Women
The struggle continues for women. Today is a tough day. The official ruling of the Roe v. Wade came down, even though we knew it was coming from the leaked draft. Yet here we are spinning from the news. It is heartbreaking. So this is a mixture of my thoughts as I try and figure […]
Leave things better than you find them, people too!
Leave things better than you find them. This is something that my mother and her mother, my grandmother said over and over again as I was growing up. At home it was walk into any room in the house and do one thing to leave it better than you found it. Do it all day […]
Mother’s Day Memories
Mother’s Day is a tough one for me. It brings up all sorts of emotions and memories that were not always happy. I stumbled across a photo earlier this week and it has brought me back to my deepest wounds. The forsythia is just about done blooming behind us. What struck me was that my […]
Be Rebellious!
Why would I say be rebellious? I had years of people feeding into my insecurities and it took a very long time to stop believing others and trusting myself. I walked through life full of fear and apologizing for everything that I do. Even now they come up. It is the recognition that they (my […]
Why is There so Much Focus on the Power of Gratitude?
The Real Power of Gratitude You have probably heard by now the power that gratitude has over your life, but you may not fully understand it yet. What does it really mean to be grateful? What is the power behind it? Before you try to grasp the absolute power of gratitude and what it is, […]
How to Create More Productivity and Focus
The First Hour of Your Day Who doesn’t want more productivity out of their day? What’s the first thing you do when you get started each morning? For many of us, it’s a rush to the PC to check email, which leads to immediately getting bogged down in routine and “have to do” tasks. The […]
Covid-19 Finally Hit Our Home
A little over two weeks ago, Covid-19 hit our home. The last few days we have been stumbling around the house. Covid-19 has proved that even being the most careful, you still can get it. My husband, step-son and myself all have been suffering with it. Fortunately we were fully vaccinated and boosted. Yet we […]