I’m safe.Body, please hear me.We are safe. I appreciate how youcarried me all those years.Protecting me in ways I didn’t realizeuntil I didn’t need you to anymore.Survival mode was necessary.I appreciate you. Though the threats have loweredAnd the stakes are not so high,You still tense up, nerves on edge,mind on high alert.Triggered. Body, please hear […]
Love & Grace
As I’ve walked this journey of growth and healing, I have come to understand the importance of loving myself in all stages. Not just who I have become or who I hope to be but looking back at who I was and loving her too. In order to love who I have become, I […]
The |soul| Purge
Invite Him in, and allow Him to purge the old, and accept the new things
Can We Skip This Part?
This year God has taken me on a journey to dig deep within, which seems contradictory to the word Rise he placed on my heart back in January. I don’t think I misheard Him though; I believe this is a “both/and” situation. He is calling me to both dig deep and rise up. Each year […]
I See You
Emotional, verbal, mental, and financial abuse are all forms of abuse that are often more difficult to detect, are easier for abusers to hide, and difficult for victims to expose.
If you’ve experienced these, this if for you. . .
30 Lessons I learned in 30 Years
I’ve been working on this post since Sept 2018, when I turned 30. I had every intention of posting it back then, but…. I didn’t. I’m still in my 30th year though, so I’ll consider myself fashionably late to the party. 🙂 Was anyone else super excited to turn 30? or are you looking forward […]
Blog Post Worthy
Someone asked me the other day “where are your blog posts girl?!” and as I listed off several excuses, I said “I mean, I’ve still been writing, just not anything blog post worthy” – cue self talk- “Seriously, what on earth does that even mean Christine?? “blog post worthy” That’s not why you started writing. […]
She is Loved. . .
“You’re so Brave” It’s a phrase that often follows someone reading or listening to my story, yet I feel undeserving. Not because I think I’m a coward or anything, but more because I feel like an ordinary person who has received such an abundance of something so extraordinary that it overflows from my heart. They […]
Do You See What I See?
What do you see in this photo? Sheer beauty. Though this photo is likely not an all-encompassing portrayal of the true beauty you might experience first-hand. God created this. He molded every portion of it long ago and orchestrated all that has changed and shifted it since then.
Full Disclosure
Today I slept in without guilt. I cleaned my house in my pajamas, hair a mess, while simultaneously dancing and singing at the top of my lungs. I took a 2 hour nap with my cat. I ate dinner outside and people watched. And now I write.