Posts Tagged ‘self-acceptance’
A table of weeds and a heave of grace…..
Four years into life with adequate bosoms there came an aching under my arm, a numbness to my fingers that would come when I played hard with my kids or worked vigorous in the yard. Eventually I could feel it, a tumor the size of a tennis ball. I was scheduled for surgery and waited…
Read MoreMuddy tracks and incorrigible hope…
Hello March and hello you:) I’ve been courting the quiet and trying to unhurry about it. The girl I used to be would’ve been horrified by the gap, annoyed and shamefaced with all the gaps I’ve come to keep since my body stopped reliably getting on board with my plans. That idealistic sprite has grown…
Read Moretripping the light fantastic….
I want to believe in rest, the kind that finds me when I’m true, the sort of peace that soaks through honest to the real of me and it’s scary still because it can feel like stepping into fog on a ridge that may give way if I step down the full of me solid. Rest is so like trust that…
Read Morepeace with who I am…
How can I swoon over the mystic maker of waves and flowers and wind and stars and trees and sky and sea and also dishonor the spark that is me? “Self-acceptance is that gentle place we get to when we make peace with who we are.” -Melody Beattie
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