Author Archives: mominsearchofme

my parents recently moved in with us. they packed up their entire home and all it’s memories and brought everything here. it’s been a process going through boxes and boxes of ME. one thing that i re-discovered about myself is that i was a prolific writer. prolific sounds like such a dramatic word, but iContinue reading “pen to paper”

i started this blog as a method of expression and self care. i haven’t written in over a week and it feels like failure to me. like there is some rule about blogging and journaling that requires regular entries. i had to sit with that feeling for a while and process whether i wanted toContinue reading “the beach”

self-care. for all the buzz around the word, its still quite a tricky concept to implement much less master. breathing. eating well. keeping clean. thinking positively. those are basics for mediocre survival. somedays they can seem like an insurmountable chore. i started this blog to grow in my practice of self-care. there are so manyContinue reading “the habit of self-care”

i had a moment of clarity yesterday. i spoke truth out loud for the first time in recent memory. things you don’t dare say to people. i said these things aloud and it was freeing. motherhood isn’t what i expected it to be. online it looks like i am loving and embracing it all whenContinue reading “truths”

i was told to start a blog by two very loving friends. its something that i had done many times before. i am no stranger to pouring out my feelings in online forums or in the many notebooks that fill my storage unit. i was told that i need to practice positive self talk. iContinue reading “lost.”