“This is god's plan” I quite literally almost used my bare hands to kill multiple very sweet-natured and kind women at my late husband’s funeral as they made their way up the multi-hour line to me at calling hours and said the four words that made my skin crawl, “This is god’s plan”. They could …
Self-care, self-nurturing, self-love, call it whatever you want— it is something I had barely heard of before moving in with my friend Gema in Vancouver. She is a massage therapist and body worker, and she taught me more about self-care than any person has in my entire life. While very feminine in appearance, my mother …
Continue reading What is dry-brushing and what does it have to do with self-love?
Many of us {cough cough most of us} have had at least one one-night stand. That guy you met at the airport bar, your friend’s cousin that weekend you all rented a house at the beach, that Tinder date last week... If you’re a sexually active adult not in a committed relationship or married and …
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Cross country travel by train— Not for the light of heart, but worth the crummy night’s sleep My first time taking a train in the United States and I boarded it from San Fransisco and took it all the way to Chicago— the entire length of Amtrak's California Zephyr route! While the station was what …
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Running the risk of sounding like such an Ohioan where we are a rather homogeneous bunch— California was surprising because there are so many different types of people; the real hippies who sometimes appear to border homeless, the actual homeless, the reality stars and wannabe reality stars, techies, registered and unregistered migrant workers, the endless …
So remember how I left on a road trip in May because I needed some healing and quiet that only the road could provide? On dozen hour car rides I thought long about what was important to me, and what matters. I ugly cried over things I told myself I got over years ago and …
It’s so funny how leaving a place makes me reflect on what I’ve learned there and how I’ve grown. I remember looking back at my journals from Phoenix and being shocked that I had survived to that moment without the life lessons that I learned there. I feel the same way about Vancouver. Does everyone …
Continue reading Reflections that lead to only more questions
Fall has always been my favorite season, I used to think it was about hayrides, carving pumpkins, and Halloween. As an adult I know what a transitional period of letting go this is, as a child my reverence for this time of year may have come from a need to be reminded that sometimes it's …
Tears streaming into my ears, down across the tops of my cheekbones. Shug. Shug. Shug. My heart pounding in my ears. Laying on my chest with my heart thumping into my mat and the sound not only of it beating, but the actual constricting and releasing filling my ears. "Let us out of …
Maranda Saling 