Admitting to those you love, that you have caused them pain, is not easy.
Moving across continents and countries has caused our children a great deal of pain and discomfort. Enter into a hard conversation with me as I grieve with my children what they have lost because of our decisions.
Read MoreIs it difficult for you to find space to do the things you love? What are those things, and what would it take to do those things?
This article explores my own venturing into new outlets and how I listened to joy instead of fear.
Read MoreAfter years of shadow living, I am trying to move into the light.
Read here how this journey from writing in the closet to writing on this page has come about.
Read MoreWhen life becomes too difficult to bear when the weight of unexpressed grief weighs you down, how do you release the pain?
This article examines the reflective practice of lamenting and how it can hold up a lantern of light in a dark time or season.
Read MoreOur lives are filled with awkward transitionary spaces. We fight them instead of settling in and staying awhile.
Explore with me what it might mean to see these places and experiences differently.
Read MoreBeing on the outside of social groups is painful and confusing. Especially when you can’t communicate in ways that are familiar.
In this post I will share my own experiences of relating across the cultural divide as a foreign woman living in Malawi and how I am trying to posture myself.
Read MoreEver feel simultaneously ripped apart and put together at the same time?
This poem explores the tension of fracturing and forming that makes a mother’s experience.
Read MoreDo you have a difficult relationship in your life? How do you live in the tension of grief for how things have been, and hope that things could be different?
This article explores that tension and questions how the Master reconciler can yet bring beauty from such pain.
Read MoreAre you hiding, from yourself?
This poem explores one place we hide in and the bully who stands outside.
Read MoreEver feel hidden, buried, dead? Down in the depths of you, there is life being called forth.
This poem explores the struggle of new growth bursting out of dark spaces.
Read MoreThere are seasons and roles in life that wash over you like a flood. They can feel undoing but simultaneously remaking.
Motherhood has been one of the greatest re-shapers of my story. Wrestle with me as I look at how to accept the who I am now and the loss of who I was before.
Read MoreSuffering is a human leveller. We may look different and suffer differently but we all suffer.
Within the walls of a hospital, we each check our status at the door. It is sacred space entering into suffering with others.
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