Where do you see yourself when you are eighty years old? DO you see yourself when you are eighty? I’ve recently been going through a rough patch and my sister told me it’s time to stop dwelling in the past and look toward the future. She opened my eyes to a fact I hadn’t thought…
Author: Shell
Stress, Get Thee Behind Me!
Stress has a way of taking over your life and making you miserable. It doesn’t happen all at once. It’s the little things. It’s the bill you forgot to pay that creates the collection call and leaves you scrambling to figure out how to find the money you need. Or, it’s the broken water pipe…
Stop Pushing!
Have you ever been so locked in the blues it feels like there’s no way out? When life just seems to come at you from all angles with knives and swords and all the sharp weapons it can find, and you feel like a block of butter with no defense? But there are deadlines and…
Progress Along This Journey of Self-Discovery
I’ve been working on writing healing letters and it was time to write a new one to myself. It was time to show myself how proud I am of the progress I have made on this journey of self-discovery. Here is my letter to myself: Dear Me, It’s time for me to tell you how…
Dear Me…
Last year I learned how to write letters for healing purposes. (Healing Letters) I wrote them to people I felt had hurt me. I wrote them to my family members that I couldn’t understand. And I wrote letters to me too. I think in time those letters need to be updated. The amount of time in…
Getting Past The Pain
My father died 28 years ago. I was a quiet 19 year old girl barely starting out in life. I still lived home with 4 of my siblings and my parents. My dad was our strength. He was our support and courage. My dad was driving home from a school board meeting that fateful Thursday…
Resolving To Stick To Resolutions
It’s 2018! The calendar has turned over. Out with the old and in with the new. Have you made your resolutions for the new year? As I stated in the last post, I am sorry to see 2017 go, because it has actually been a good year for me. I started a new journey to…
Goodbye 2017 Thanks For The Memories …
The year is ending. This time of year always seems to carry a sense of sadness with it. People don’t like endings. Memories of the last year come flooding back with all the original emotions of the events. The end of the year is a time for reflecting on the people we lost over the…
School Bus Pal
Recently my husband and I were off on a shopping trip and he happened to mention that he ran into someone I barely knew as a child. The name brought back memories of my days long ago. The guy he ran into was a high school student on the bus I rode to school in…
Merry Christmas from The Write Empath
Merry Christmas! Are you feeling the Christmas spirit? Can you feel the peace and joy and love in your heart today? For me, Christmas has always felt magical, special somehow. We were raised poor. My father was self-employed, but we didn’t have a lot of money. Christmas gifts were often things we needed like socks….