This is so true and cripples so many who never share their work with the world. Thank you for this simple explanation.
Examining Our Own Toxicity
Toxic relationships — stopping the sick cycle of blaming others for our own shortcomings
Disclaimer:
I have been guilty of all the offenses I outline in this article and then some. My intent here is not to sit in the seat of judgment and point the finger of blame down at people. I also realize that those people with extreme cases are likely not going…
Darkness is light
Lightness is dark
The blackest of ash
Begins with a spark
Pain is joy
Joy is pain
Every great flood
Was once a drop of rain
There is no wrong without right
No big without small
No whisper without a scream
No rise without a fall
Never…
And the simple, but not so easy, solution
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We as humans all have different cultural, socio-economic, and environmental backgrounds that tend to divide us. There are also many other should-be trivial things that…
A holiday poem for every day
The magic of Christmas,
Is not just in the day,
The wonder lies deeper,
Than a fat man in a sleigh
The magic of Christmas
Is not under the tree,
Wrapped in red, white and green
It’s inside you and me
The magic of Christmas
Is not one time a year,
It’s…
Money may not buy it, but love does have a price
True Love is not free.
We’ve all heard it said many times and in many ways, and have quite possibly repeated it on many occasions, that love is free, love doesn’t cost a thing or money can’t buy love. …
Wake up and make them a reality!
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho
We all have dreams. We all have amazing things that we wish to do with our lives…
Sometimes love alone is just not enough to save your relationship
As it has been said, ‘love is a beautiful and many-splendored thing’. When love becomes toxic however, matters can shift to not so beautiful and downright horrific very quickly. All of the love in the world will not pull you out of the terrors of a toxic/abusive relationship. …
Prose Poem
There is a bizarrely familiar and anesthetizing comfort lurking deep inside the sadness and discomfort of a wounded soul; that begs the heart to surrender to its paralyzing grip. The life-piercing pick of maddening malevolence, strums the broken strings of a tattered heart as consciousness begins to evanesce and slip.
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Brief thoughts on love, words, and vibrational frequencies
“Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”
— Sigmund Freud
Throughout my entire life,
I have heard people overuse, misinterpret and absolutely adulterate the word love in the English language. Hell, I’ve even been guilty of it myself on multiple occasions. …
