Hey Siri…

I was gifted my first phone in the 4th grade. It was a pink Motorola RAZR (see below). Receiving this cell phone was a safety measure from my mom. My mom was raising me alone at the time, so she had to keep track of her curious child somehow! This looked like making...

Why Are We So Busy?

On Friday night, I took our dogs to the dog park at our apartment complex. Due to the energy levels of the dogs currently residing in our home, the dog park is our 2nd home! We love meeting and spending time with new and old friends (human and canine) and we enjoy...

May the Course Be With You!

Golf looks like a beautiful sport. You are outside . . . not a ton of people around you, quiet and serene, beautiful landscape, trees, water, even sand. Plus, you typically play when the weather is nice. I have ALWAYS wanted to play golf. One time a gracious member of...

The Tapes We All Have in Our Heads

Brené Brown, Ph.D., describes shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” So if that’s how we feel, the last thing we want to do is let others know, right? I mean, how many of us want...

Ever see the “Enjoli” commercial?

A wise psychologist once said, “Everyone leaves childhood with wounds. It is inevitable because we are all imperfect people. Even when we do our best, we will make mistakes.” Society certainly doesn’t help us not live as people of shame. Over a decade ago, when...

Do you live from places of shame?

According to Merriam-webster.com, Cancel Culture is “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure.” We, as a culture/society, are in process of canceling things that hurt people! Racism,...