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This week I had a huge turning point in regards to what it really means to work with the layered trauma's of your past. As I was sitting with coffee and reading some poetry, it dawned on me that it is time to love my scars . Not question them, reject them, find new understanding or meaning...etc... Simply, love them. I started to take deep breaths and go through each significant trauma and speak out-loud why I love each part of my body that was wounded. I chose to see the physical scar tissue...

It is an awful feeling to be caught in a ping pong match between these two feelings. What I have learned through my meditation practices is that worth just happens as we stay devoted to a daily practice, continually catching our thoughts and naming how we want to see ourself on a given day. I have carried a lot of shame with me into my adult years from childhood, that I am finally naming, claiming and releasing. As I am regrowing my confidence and more quickly stopping past narratives from...

The biggest lesson I learned the end of this summer was "push through the resistance of starting". I have overcome some major challenges at this stage in my life that I will never take for granted moving forward. The greatest challenge of all, however, was naming I am driving down a road that is no longer mine to drive on. A close friend of mine helped me name this over breakfast one morning. She stated, "it may be time to take a detour and form your own adventure in the world". She was not...