This past week, was a week filled with sadness, fear, pride and one I’m not so proud of ego. My daughter turned 16 and her dad surprised us both with a car for her. Although I’m super grateful, I’m also feeling a little lost with this new independence for her. I won’t call it empty…
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A Little Grace
”People make time for what they want” or “People treat you the way they feel about you”. Here I am with an unpopular stance… I don’t agree with either of these sentiments. People make TIME for what they want. After working our job, taking care of our kid(s), family obligations, is it possible there is…
34 Months
34 months, that’s how long it’s been since I wrote. Who am I? I’ll tell you who I’m not, and that’s myself, Jeannette. The one I love who lived authentically. She wrote to process. She wrote to feel. She wrote to grow. She wrote to heal. I haven’t let my feelings, my thoughts rock out…
Half An Empath
What is an empath? I best describe it as the entering another’s person’s feeling and emotions intuitively at times. My therapist said it’s a horrible trait but one that you can’t help and takes a lot of work to manage (I hate work). Think of a sponge – you absorb other’s emotion and…
Tired
I’m tired, tired to the point where my knees get weak and I feel as if they will just fold under me without warning. My public façade is good, Oscar-worthy even but I’m not “fake”, I’m surviving. I know what you’re thinking, am I reading about her being tired. Yes – you are. But this…
This Writing Thing.
I get a lot of emails, texts, calls asking if what I write about are my own experiences. Short answer, yes.I don’t have the best memory so there are times when I’m talking to my family or friends, reading a book, or watching a movie that triggers some thing in my memory that relates to…
Value, it’s important.
A noun: the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. A verb: consider (someone or something) to be important or beneficial; have a high opinion of. Whichever way you define it….it is necessary for our esteem. No not just women, all. Why did this come to my mind?I…
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