Pain is a funny thing.  Yet, not funny at all.  When you feel it, it’s all encompassing.  It’s hard to see or feel or think about anything but the pain.  It feels like nothing else exists and nothing else ever will.  Whether physical pain or emotional pain, when pain takes hold, life becomes harder than ever to navigate.  Three months ago, when my husband and I decided to put our 13 year old dog...

Living on the road, not owning a house…or inhabiting a house at all for that matter, is a direct violation of society’s expectations.  This lifestyle goes directly against the grain of how most people live and has revealed to me the weight of what we’ve been led to believe is important.  We’ve been led to believe we should always ALWAYS be striving for more.  More money, more stuff.  Life is a...

Lately I’ve become increasingly attached to my phone.  Something that’s hard to admit because 1) I don’t want to believe that to be true 2) it’s such a slippery slope, it’s hard to step outside yourself and realize you’re doing it 3) it’s so easy to justify it as a tool that it’s difficult to admit to it being anything else. But it’s started to feel like an addiction lately.  The more I use it...

We can learn so much from kids.  What I learn about most when I’m with my nieces is joy.  See, kids aren’t caught up with bills and jobs and all the other responsibilities that we let weigh us down daily.  Does that mean our stress is warranted? Nope…because kids know something we’ve long forgotten…today is the only day that really matters.  As we grow older we lose sight of today and begin...

I think worrying may be one of the most exhaustive thought processes we can engage in.  Life is an ongoing series of highs and lows.  A wave that sometimes we ride and sometimes we just survive.  The act of worrying being at the heart of what tries to pull us under.  Worrying has no end, nor does it create any kind of solution.   WORRYING IS NOTHING BUT MEDITATING ON SHIT.   Where do...

Sometimes you’ve got to just laugh.Hysterically.At nothing.Or yourself.Or life. “LIFE ISN’T AS SERIOUS AS THE MIND MAKES IT OUT TO BE.” -eckart tolle Life is meant to be enjoyed.To take all it’s wonderful highs and tormented lows with a grain of salt.Life is hard.Laughter makes it easier. Don’t feel like laughing?Try anyways.It will be fake and absurd at first.Until you hear how...

I feel like we’ve begun to confuse ease and comfort with happiness and fulfillment.  My own life proving to be a fine example of this.  I live in a beautiful place and have built a successful career.  Life, for the most part, is pretty easy and quite comfortable.  But over the last year I’ve grown increasingly unhappy.  Which is confusing because I don’t want for much more in life.  So why on...