Category: Personal Growth

  • You Don’t Have to Look Like What You’ve Been Through

    You Don’t Have to Look Like What You’ve Been Through

    I don’t look like what I’ve been through. That’s the thought that keeps coming to mind after several discussions with someone I’ve recently met. At one point they said something like, “Look at you. You look like you’ve had the best life.” I gave them a rundown of a couple things I’ve dealt with in…

  • Ginger Ale

    Ginger Ale

    Recently, I was sick with a stomach bug. I woke up with a weird sensation in my stomach that I misinterpreted for hunger. About a week earlier, my son woke up saying his stomach felt funny and that he needed to eat something. He was looking in the fridge for food when he became close…

  • Anxiety

    Anxiety

    Anxiety, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear, often marked by physical signs and self-doubt about one’s capacity to cope. This topic seems to be all around me. It feels huge when it shows up in real life. I’ve had my own run-ins with anxiety. Somewhere along…

  • Your Enemies Can’t Betray You

    Your Enemies Can’t Betray You

    I often see people post online how they thought it would have been their enemies who would betray them, not their closest friends. I groan each time I see that. Why? Because your enemies can’t betray you. Betrayal, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “the act of betraying someone or something or the fact of being…