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One Important Thing to Remember About Our Emotions

One Important Thing to Remember About Our Emotions

Today's piece is inspired by an image that I painted in December of 2020. The images of a brown twig with colorful abstract leaves sort of slowly-but-surely falling off or floating away from the twig itself. In this image, I was intentional about painting some of the leaves on the twig and then s...
Four Simple Things to Hold Onto if You're Losing Focus

Four Simple Things to Hold Onto if You're Losing Focus

First things first. If you are experiencing a lack of focus, there is no shame. There is no judgment. It's okay, and it happens to everyone. Before you focus on getting your focus back, allow yourself the permission to remember that there are many factors as to why you could be losing focus. Fact...
One Thing You Can Hold Onto When You're Questioning Your Worth

One Thing You Can Hold Onto When You're Questioning Your Worth

Whenever you start to question your worth, I hope you can remember the flowers that bloom far out into the wild, where no one can see them. They live their full lives out in the sun, wind, and rain without human praise. Without names. No painter paints them. No florist collects them. Far out in t...
Three Reminders When Life Isn’t Meeting Your Expectations

Three Reminders When Life Isn’t Meeting Your Expectations

Number one: Remember, you are still becoming who you were meant to be.  You haven't wasted time when things don't work out. Yes, time has passed, and you can't get it back. But now, everything that happened taught you: you are worth so much more than that. You have started to see that even though...
It Was Still Worth Waiting For

It Was Still Worth Waiting For

You long to be in a placewhere you are no longerhaving to wait for this,where you are finally able to be freefrom the worryof what might never happen.And on the outside,you know you are growing,you can see that things are changing,day by day, year by year.but on the inside,there is this strugglew...
You Are Already a Little Further Than You Were a Month Ago

You Are Already a Little Further Than You Were a Month Ago

You are already a little further than you were a month ago. You are already experiencing slow and steady growth.You are not who you were on December 7th.You have already lived through dozens of new sunsetsand nearly half a million minutes.And through all of them, you were breathing.Through some o...