We’re All Like Other Girls
My friend Miranda and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, when I was first toying with the idea of this post, and she so beautifully said, “I look at all of you [my girl friends] and I see pieces I want to take from each of you.” How brilliant is that? Here we are, afraid to be like other girls, when, instead, we can focus on cultivating meaningful friendships with women that we admire. Instead of looking to other women through a fearful comparison of who we don’t want to be, what if we, conversely, looked to other women for inspiration of who we do want to be?
Take Today Breath by Breath
We tend to think that there’s courses laid out for us in life, that there’s a path carved leading us to grace. I believe that we stumble into grace. It’s when we feel like there’s nothing left to lose that we discover what is worth living for. When we stop trying so hard to know what things will look like every step of the way, we can focus on how we want to take our next step.
You’re Your Own Damn Everything.
You are your own damn everything. No one is more you than you. No one can understand you the way you do. I guarantee that the love you are seeking to give or receive from other’s is precisely the love you wish you would give yourself. Forget who you will disappoint. Take the risk. Get your cute a$$ in the driver’s seat. Ask yourself what you’re afraid of. Discern for yourself what sets your soul on fire.
5 Books That Have Tangibly Altered My Life
So, as we’re all new here, I thought we could get to know each other a little better by, well, diving right in of course! And why not begin with sharing some of the wise words that have brought me here?