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10/13/2026

I don’t know about you, but I grow oh so weary of people feeling they can behave badly towards others without consequences and with other people protecting them.

Protecting the abuser runs rampant, especially in family systems. In psychology this is called abuse enabling; I’ll be sharing more about this soon.

You have a choice around this type of behavior. If they’re family members you can love them from afar.

You can understand someone’s wounds without accepting their mistreatment.

You can walk away from an unhealthy interaction without needing to convince the other person that you’re right.

That’s a profound change in how you exercise your own power.

If you need guidance with stepping into your own power and setting healthy boundaries, I offer IFS therapy as an inward journey that can have a a profound effect on your outer life.

When you compromise, you abandon yourself. letting go of people, groups, organizations that you’re not aligned with anym...
10/08/2026

When you compromise, you abandon yourself.

letting go of people, groups, organizations that you’re not aligned with anymore can feel lonely at first.

After the loneliness settles, there’s a deeper connection to yourself and you begin to open up to people who can see, here, and connect with you.

You don’t have to fully let go of others, you can simply spend less energy moving towards them. Move yourself up higher on the list and get grounded in yourself and open the door to magical people that will appear.🤩

Sometimes you recognize it as a feeling in your body before you have words for it.The little jab, the criticism disguise...
10/07/2026

Sometimes you recognize it as a feeling in your body before you have words for it.

The little jab, the criticism disguised as humor, the judgement tone, or the comment made in front of other people.

Inside you might brace or your shoulders start to creep up slowly towards your ears.

Subtle bullying and intimidation can be difficult to identify because each interaction may seem small enough to explain away. But over time, you may realize you are spending more energy managing someone else than simply being yourself around them.

And speaking up is not always easy. Sometimes we stay quiet because experience has taught us that the other person will deny, escalate, retaliate, or turn the problem back on us. We protect with silence.

I need you to know: there are other choices.

You don’t have to win the argumentor convince someone their behavior was inappropriate.

However, you get to decide what you will participate in and when you will step away.

This subject is personal to me, too. I have experienced bullying at different points throughout my life, and I’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t , and how we can protect ourselves without becoming like the person trying to intimidate us.

I think there may be a longer Substack coming about that.🤔

For now, I’m curious:

Have you ever felt something in your body before you fully understood what was happening? Or, do you have that person in your life that speaks their mind freely, covers it up with “that’s just how I am.”

I’ll be posting more on the subject here and how to care for yourself and all the parts of you that might’ve been bullied in the past.

It’s not ok.

What does it feel like to not be considered?To be around people who may care about you, but somehow your feelings, your ...
09/29/2026

What does it feel like to not be considered?

To be around people who may care about you, but somehow your feelings, your needs, your experience, or even your presence doesn’t seem to enter their awareness.

It can leave you with an odd feeling that is hard to name. You’re there, but you’re not really being seen. You speak, but you’re not really being heard.

When you’re not being heard and seen,you might:

☀️explain more
☀️become more helpful
☀️lean into being understanding
☀️be available and responsive

All the while hoping to hoping to feel considered.

And when it doesn’t happen, you try even harder or sink into hopelessness that can feel very lonely.

There is another way.

The question to leave you with is: Am I considering myself in relationships where I am not being considered?

09/27/2026

The trees don’t rush, they gradually bloom and withdraw. .

Healing can be quiet and gradual.

We often look for the big moment the breakthrough, the release, the day we finally feel different.

Inner healing rarely happens all at once.

Sometimes it happens so gradually you might not even notice it. A reaction softens, an old story doesn’t have quite the same hold. You speak where you once stayed silent. You rest instead of pushing. You’re choosing differently without even realizing that once, you couldn’t.

Like a tree changing with the season, part of you may still be holding the old while another part has already begun to turn. It can be both.

Notice what’s shifting inside of you.

You may be further along than you think🍁

Zeke died at home with me on September 11, 2015. His death came quickly and was quite a shock. I still have tears when I...
09/10/2026

Zeke died at home with me on September 11, 2015. His death came quickly and was quite a shock. I still have tears when I remember that day.

Earlier that afternoon, he was lying in a stream of sunshine on the carpet in my great room, sound asleep. I watched his legs begin to move as he dreamed that he was running.

By then, arthritis in his hips had made running difficult for him. But there he was, running somewhere in his dreams.

I’ve never forgotten that.

Zeke was the captain of the house and all my other pets. He was kind to every animal he met, and at home. He even kept the cats in line.

Most of all, he was my friend. He walked beside me through some very difficult years of my life, asking for very little and giving so much simply by being there.

And then, that evening, he slipped away so quickly.

Nearly eleven years later, I can look at these photographs and feel both things at once: the enormous love I had for him and the ache of losing him, a best friend.

I’ve been slowly writing a book about pet loss, sometimes the grief keeps me from returning to it lately, I’ve started it right now. 

Perhaps Zeke is one of the reasons why. I want to write about this particular kind of grief: the depth of the bond, the shock of the absence, the things people sometimes don’t understand, and how we carry our pets with us long after they are gone.

I’m returning to the pages.

And today, I’m remembering my beautiful boy running in the sunshine somewhere ❤️

09/09/2026

…follow.

This morning, I felt to draw to walk up the hill and path in my wooded backyard when I got home from the gym. I didn’t know why, I just knew I had to walk the land.

When I got to the top, I looked over the fence and I saw this beautiful boy looking back at me.

I introduced myself as I have learned from Sandra Ingerman , asking this beautiful being “may I step into your field of energy?” When I felt it was OK with him, I let him know that I come in peace no intention to harm I asked for his protection throughout his life and continued to watch him munch on falling acorns.

I then spotted two more young bucks nearby. With a little research learned that in the summer/spring, male deer travel in bachelor groups.

If I wasn’t listening, I would’ve missed out on this encounter.

Intuition doesn’t yell or screaming at you, it’s in those subtle moments when you give yourself time to simply be.

What is your intuition nudging you about lately? Take note and follow your own timing.

You’re in relationship with so much more than you realize.

One of the things I love about these quotes is that they show Dolly as fully human.So much has been said about her kindn...
08/28/2026

One of the things I love about these quotes is that they show Dolly as fully human.

So much has been said about her kindness, generosity, and warmth and rightly so. And, kindness can sometimes get confused with being agreeable, staying quiet, turning the other cheek, or letting things slide when something doesn’t feel right.

Dolly seemed to understand the difference.

She could be kind and still get angry. She could care deeply about people and still speak up for herself and others. She could be gracious without becoming a pushover.

I think that’s an important reminder for all of us: anger isn’t always something to get rid of. It can
tells us a boundary has been crossed, something matters, or it’s time to use our voice.

Kindness and strength can live in the same person because as human beings we have a wide range of emotions in our inner world.

Suppressing them or slathering over all over others is unhealthy for body, mind and spirit.

Embrace your humanness. You are a coat of many colors!

💅🏻I’m painting my nails pink in honor of Dolly, and I will continue to honor my emotions, speak up for myself and others when needed.


08/27/2026

Self abandonment doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like overwriting, what you know, pushing past your fatigue, staying too long, or continuing to play a role that is more about someone else’s expectations and not your own.

I’ve had many people around me retiring, and it inspired me to ask myself: what am I ready to retire from?

I write more about it on a recent Substack, link in bio.

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