Category: love
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Wrapped in Love
If we’re friends on Facebook or Instagram, you will know that I have recently begun a journey into the world of headscarves and head wraps. There is one main reason I began: trichotillomania. It’s an impulse control disorder that causes me to pull out my hair…it’s a terrible thing and it has wreaked havoc on…
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Student In Waiting
For the past few years, I’ve gone in fits and starts with my education. I like to learn, in fact, I love it…sometimes. It hasn’t always been this way, as my parents and brothers can attest to: I wasn’t keen on waking early for the bus, I wasn’t keen on going to class as I…
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The Love Month
February has come to be a special month for me. I’m not a big believer in a specific day to celebrate love, like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day or Father’s day. Why just celebrate one day a year, it’s something to be celebrated every day. Especially when Steve and I have the love and relationship…
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Learning Who I Am
I am a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. I have lived so long with my depression and unacknowledged PTSD symptoms, that I grew accustomed to this shell of a person. I’ve wrapped myself in layers to protect myself from others and in the process, I’ve also isolated to the point of being unrecognizable to myself. I…
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My journey to Hope.
Beauty in chaos. That has been the general theme of my life, one that I cling to in even the darkest of times. If you’ve read my blog before, you know that I have depression and with periods of deeper depression. On June 15, 2015 I lost sight of my theme, my mantra. The darkness…
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Stress Management
I’ve been waiting for today for a very long time; I’m not sure if this day would be a good thing or a bad thing though. This morning I cried, actually no that is an understatement, I wailed and sobbed, I was a total mess. I haven’t been managing my stress very well these days.…
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Love Everlasting
Psalm 139 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me…
Ramblings of a Mother 