Real Deal Vulnerability and Shame Resilience
My friend and I have been reading a book (which I have mentioned before) called Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. The latest chapter we are reading is one of really unpacking shame (because it turns out being vulnerable can negate shame) and what that looks like for men and women and how it is different. It’s so interesting because everything that she talks about I can relate to. The way I grew up, we weren’t supposed to talk about our feelings or anything else we had going on a
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Adulting
Remember when we were kids and all we wanted to do was grow up, be adults and be able to do whatever we wanted? And then when I did grow up and became said adult all I wanted was a husband, kids, a family, a couple of dogs, a house to take care of. And now that I have all that and I am definitely, without a doubt a very 37-year-old adult, then I ask myself “what next?”, “is this real life?”, and “I don’t think I actually want to adult anymore”. Anyone else relate or is that j
Apr 294 min read
How authentic are you really?
Authenticity…a subject that has been talked about in several of the books I have been reading and a topic of conversation as of late. We all want to be authentic, the real you and the real me and we want to be around the same people. The real deal, show me all of your flaws, people. When I was younger, I didn’t know who I was. I was always searching for who I should be or who I needed to be for someone else. I would constantly change myself to fit in to whatever group I was h
Apr 175 min read
How tired is too tired?
I remember writing a blog several years ago (before kids) trying to defend myself on being just that tired. How tired was I really? Tired, or so I thought. In today’s world we are tired… with or without kids, this job or that job, because we always have to be going and doing. That is how we prove ourselves. How much we can get done in the little time that we actually have. Now, what I do know now, that I am telling my younger self, is that I was NOT in fact tired then. Not th
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