Girl, why are you struggling so hard to take care of yourself? Why are you chasing that thing that has always calmed you down? What you used to do to feel better? How you have coped before? You’re not the same person. You are not the same woman you were 10 years ago, 5 yearsContinue reading “Update Your Self Care”
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Relationship Score Keeping
Why are we keeping score? “I checked on her 3 times while she was sick, and she hasn’t checked on me once.” “I repeatedly text her and invite her to lunch. Would it kill her to text and ask me for a change?” “She has time to go running around doing all that mess, butContinue reading “Relationship Score Keeping”
Survival Mode
OK. If I don’t stop and write, I’m going to explode. Life has been happening so fast that I can’t stop long enough to get my thoughts out, dang it. I might even lose a few pounds…that’s how much they build up when I don’t blog. Stupid. Anywho…it’s performance season, so I’m in full prepContinue reading “Survival Mode”
Healthy Choices Today
Progress, People! Whole foods only and lots of water! Nothing more motivating than seeing myself in the mirror dancing with my kids last night. Other than all this, I just feel like I better watch my health. It can get away from us, you know. You must start going through a thing in your 40’sContinue reading “Healthy Choices Today”
Weight Loss & Accountability…just no.
So I’ve been thinking about telling y’all that I’m going to start trying to lose weight. Telling you would mean accountability, though, and accountability means…um… having to be accountable…for actually doing it. *sigh* Why is weight loss hard? It’s not hard to eat birthday cake. Why is weight loss accountability so hard? It’s not hardContinue reading “Weight Loss & Accountability…just no.”
Let go of the crap.
Funny, isn’t? Funny to think about your old self, or maybe what the rest of the world is still doing, when you decide to be completely done with… Stupid crap. Fake crap. Meaningless crap. Other people’s crap. Political crap. Crap that ain’t my business. Dramatic crap. Pretentious crap. It’s the biggest challenge of all –Continue reading “Let go of the crap.”
It makes me tired.
I’ll just go ahead and say it, because I know y’all are thinking it, too. Sometimes, I don’t want to hear about other people’s problems. Anybody’s. The world’s. The economy’s. Whoever. Whatever. It makes me tired. There. It’s out…for all of us. That doesn’t sound very nice, I know, but seriously. I just don’t haveContinue reading “It makes me tired.”
Can’t Blame Myself
I’m the poster child for thinking of ways to blame myself when something “goes wrong” with my kids…if they acted irresponsibly, after they said something disrespectful, or best yet, when they got a mental health diagnosis. After the discovery of clinical OCD, general anxiety disorder, a math disorder, and ADHD in my daughter, I didContinue reading “Can’t Blame Myself”
Kids, Insults, Harm
Think of the worst insult you could fling at someone. Go ahead. The worst possible thing you could say to another person. What would it be? F*** yourself. Go to hell. How bad could you get? You’d want to cut deep, right? Really give it to ’em. Make it sting. Kids have figured out howContinue reading “Kids, Insults, Harm”
God told me…
God told me to stop worrying about what other people think. This past week, He showed me a bunch of His work in action…in real time…and it was amazing. That encouraged me to lean on Him and forget about the opinions of others. God told me to stop wondering if I messed up my kids.Continue reading “God told me…”
Amanda Herring, Writer 