After a long and stressful week of working, or even after the day’s events, sometimes I just want to sit in silence. There are days when I will sit in my meditation space, and instead of journaling or doing a guided meditation, I will just sit there and watch the candles as they flicker into…
Tag: self
A Journey Through Self.
I’m thinking of doing a series of blog posts dedicated to a series of things that I am wanting to rediscover about myself: Self-Acceptance Self-love Self-Acknowledgement Self-Esteem All of these things obviously have a common denominator; self. Ive realized throughout the year, my posts have somewhat dealt with a lot of what I’m going through…
How to Forgive Myself
A few days ago, I listened to a guided meditation that provided a lot of perspective on what I have been going through these past couple of weeks. It was in reference to forgiving yourself, and how often we forget that the most important person that needs forgiveness, is you. How many of us on…
A Look Beyond the Titles
Mother. Wife. Supervisor. Employee. Provider. There are so many times when women who fall into these categories are defined by these words. We are characterized, classified and described with these words and at times, our identity and worth is sometimes only valued based on these things. For five years, I have had the pleausre of…
Self-Care Sunday: Reading
This weeks highlight is one of my favorite hobbies in the entire world: reading! Nothing helps calm my nerves more than retreating into the world of someone else for hours and hours on end; which is why I love reading so much! I’ve been reading for as long as I can remember, but I know…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: May 2017, A Review.
May. Was. Shit. I apologize in advance for my foul language in this post, but it is what it is. Sometimes we have bad months, and May was mine. Let’s talk about it, shall we?
8-5 Whit Vs. After 5 Whit: A Lesson in My Duality
As you can see in the picture, my attempt is to show that I have two different sides of myself. I believe a lot of us in this world live in this same reality. First, we have the professional side. This is the side that puts on a bright smiling face, shows up to work…
Loving Yourself Gets Hard, and That’s Ok.
Today, I was faced with an emotion that I haven’t felt in a long time; I wasn’t happy with myself. I was having a pretty bad day and beating myself up about it. I hadn’t felt this way in a long time; in fact, I had been in surprisingly great spirits lately about a number…
Why Don’t Superwomen get an Off Day?
As we go through life and its many stages (adulthood, dating, marriage, children) it’s so easy to wish that we were back to the “good old days” when we are hit with rough times or life just becomes too “adult” for us to handle. I know I have experienced this several times (I mean, who…
