Are you one of those women? You know, the one who cares too much? Wants too much? Says too much? Feels too much? Loves too much? Is too much? Who doesn’t do casual? Wears her heart on her sleeve? Falls too hard and too deep? Are you one of those women Who blames...

  When I touched you today it felt like the first time like the first time I touched you. And when I saw you I saw you more beautiful than I forgot to remember you.     No mildew of old stories no residues of past pains no expectations or plans. Just you and I in the...

  Tell me, how do you like to be loved?     Sexually romantically emotionally platonically?     How do you wish your lover would love you? How do you wish your ex had loved you? How does your fantasy of your ideal lover, love you?     Is that the way that you’re...

  I didn't want casual.   I wanted love.     I wanted to fall To throw caution to the wind To lose all logic and control.   I wanted you to take me I wanted you to claim my heart I wanted you to enter me and make me blossom I wanted you to fuck me open to God.     But...

  I don’t understand war.     I don’t understand rape, abuse, and I especially don’t understand a lack of remorse.     I don’t understand why car crashes take precious lives. Why hurricanes and earthquakes and tsunamis surprise. I don’t understand why people have to...

  Love the one who feels restless. Who thinks she needs to move to find happiness. Who thinks if she was here or there she’d find completeness. Love that one who wants more.     Love the one whose mind never stops running. Who’d like to have a thought without...

  I don't need a paved path     I don't need a resort     I'm happy on a muddy trail     and sleeping in a fort.     I'm not concerned with glitz     or expensive shiny cars     I'd rather not have electricity     so I can see more stars.     I don't need a big casino...

  You the dreamer who imagines a life so much greater who speaks of things others don’t understand remember restrictions exist only in our minds you can let your imagination run wild.     You the young one with so much possibility with so much uncertainty remember...

  Why wait to find peace when the traffic jam clears when the work day ends when the pain in your head and your neck cease?     Find peace now. Right now. Just as you are.     Why wait to be happy when the sun decides to shine when you buy a newer car when your...

  Imagine if fear was just an illusion.     Could you live without restrictions dream without boundaries?     Could you make a decision pursue your passion     express your imagination achieve your vision?     Could you look him, or her, or me, or you in the eye?    ...

  Am I my name that’s spelled and called rolodexed and scrawled printed on my certificate of birth engraved on my stone of death?     Am I my gender that appoints me a color that dictates my behavior that tells me what gender I can and can’t love?     Am I my job that...

  When you smile for no other reason than to feel and share joy.     When you draw, dance, sing, create when you express what you feel inside.     When you sleep, when you eat, when you stretch, when you rest.     When you set boundaries that make you feel respected....

  Are you sleeping?     Are you distracted are you foggy are you hazy?     Are you conscious of the thoughts that you are thinking?     Are you aware of the movements you are making?     Are you intending on the life that you are living?     Wake up watch the sunrise...

  Can you recall a time when you felt ugly insecure desperate jealous rejected lonely imperfect unwanted unworthy?     Was it one year ago was it one week ago was it last night was it today?     Did you dismiss or conceal your emotions to appease to please?     Did...

  Check in. Where are you?     Are you here?     Are you here with your body? Are you here with your breath?     Or have you reverted to the past? Have you bypassed to the future?     Are you retracing the steps that have already transpired hoping to somehow change...

  How connected do you feel to the Earth?     To the sky? To the sea?     To your body to your voice to your breath?     There are times when I do not feel connected at all.     When I feel defined by my thoughts my emotions my worries my fears.     When I feel like...

  Last year when I started this blog, I wrote a post about letting go. As a reminder to myself.     I was anticipating the confrontation of something I tried to forget, tried to ignore, and refused to let go of.     And months later when I left this little jungle town...

  There is no denying that traveling has transformed me. It has helped me grow in ways that I never imagined possible.     But sometimes, still, I find myself going back to my old ways. I find myself re-enacting destructive patterns from my past. I find myself making...

  The past few weeks I have been feeling the heaviness of competition. And when I feel competitive, my old friend judgement and my husband perfectionism come to visit. And it does not feel good.   It makes me question myself. Question my own abilities. Question my...

  Many of you may know that I am back in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica after an incredible month of traveling through Panama and Colombia. My return to this magical jungle town has been a bittersweet reunion. Distance always makes the heart grow fonder, but being back I am...

  After nineteen hours, three exhausting bus rides, one border crossing, and a meal of plantain chips, yogurt, and cornmeal pudding, I have finally arrived in Panama City.   As I write this I am sitting in the lobby of a hostel, where I have been waiting, for the last...

  When you feel discomfort do you shift do you change do you move?   Your hair your partner your job your home     Do you hop from one beach, one town, one country to another hoping to find contentment somewhere, anywhere else?   Do you launch yourself into a new...

]   Life isn't always easy for a girl     Do you feel like you have to be the smartest, the loudest, the boldest to be heard?     the prettiest, the sexiest, the chicest to be seen?     the most generous, most compliant, most selfless to be loved?     Do you know that...

  Do you ever feel     like you love     too much?     Like everything would hurt less if you felt less? Gave less? Cared less?     Look Inside     Maybe it's not that you love others too much     but instead     that you don't love yourself    ...

    that the sea is dangerous     and the storm terrible     but they have never found these dangers     sufficient reason     for remaining ashore.     Vincent Van...

  Pick a flower and put it in your hair.   Run into the ocean with reckless abandon.   Dance like all that exists is you and the music that surrounds you. Let go and laugh. At everything. At nothing at all.   Open your heart and show the gushy parts with pride.  ...

    Are there things you need to let go of?     Too many pairs of impractical shoes Clothing you haven’t worn since another decade or dress size Unusual condiments you used once that now simply clutter your fridge Relationships that make you feel bad more often than...