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Resilience, the trophy no one wants
Read more: Resilience, the trophy no one wantsMy parents divorced when I was 5. I vividly remember the day my Dad left. After the divorce my Dad will start to walk away from his children entirely. People say oh kids are resilient, they adjust. I mean they do adjust but isn’t that just survival? We adjust because we have to in order…
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The intense love of Motherhood
Read more: The intense love of MotherhoodWhen you become a mother everyone is quick to tell you all the perfect sitcom versions of what motherhood will be like. The love you’ll feel, the joy they bring to your life. They tend to tell you some sugar coated version of what motherhood actually feels like. Now my kids do bring me joy…
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Chasing down the perfection of tomorrow
Read more: Chasing down the perfection of tomorrowI feel like we are programmed to live in the future. I don’t mean some sci-fi time travel to some future life. I’m talking about instead on being mindful and present our focus is often on the future. What about tomorrow? What do I have to get done next week? What if this thing could…
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Panic with a side of insomnia and broken heart.
Read more: Panic with a side of insomnia and broken heart.I wrote the following words on June 15, 2015. I was suffering from a broken heart and insomnia. My best friend had just cut her family vacation short, a vacation we both knew would be her last one ever. She was in Cleveland clinic awaiting some relief. She was losing her fight with breast cancer.…
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Hard truths about happiness
Read more: Hard truths about happinessOk this is a hard one to hear. It is for me at least. This is because I sit and think about so many wasted years of unhappiness. Overall my life has been pretty damn good, but I haven’t always seen it that way. I’ve spent many days miserable because of things either out of…
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The shift
Read more: The shiftIn December 2018 someone recommended reiki to me. I had actually been reading up on it online and was very interested. She gave me a list of names and one just jumped out to me. I reached out to Rebecca Ahern: Apothecary & Healing and I had my first ever Reiki session in January 2019.…
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Healing has no timeline
Read more: Healing has no timelineI lost my dearest and closest friend 4 years ago. While most people that know me realize that I felt a tremendous loss. They were not aware that my life changed in ways I did not foresee coming. Her death wasn’t the unforeseen part. I had sometime to prepare, (fuck cancer!) although there really isn’t…
Laura Hillkirk 