How A Patient Saint Led Me Home My Journey with St. Teresa Growing up, my father always told me, “Complete your Confirmation, and after that, you decide.”He meant it — once I received my sacraments, my spiritual path would be mine to choose. He also had another line he repeated often: “You don’t have to …
For Charlie I saw an angel in the moonlight on September 9th. I was out walking my dog, contemplating the state of the world. The shooting at the Church of the Annunciation, that poor young woman, Iryna Zarutska, on the subway, among other tragedies. I was having a conversation with God half out loud and …
The Start of Something New I wandered the wilderness, chasing answers in every direction but the one that mattered – God. What if a brand could hold every part of me – my faith, my fiction, motherhood, wifehood, & my mindset work? I thought I found the answers. But I was looking outside of …
Don’t Wish Your Life Away
Overwhelmed? Just know, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Meant to be Should be Every moment of your life so far has led you to this exact spot. You’ve probably heard that before. I know I’ve said it to myself about a hundred times while I struggled to get my shit together …
My husband triggered me last week
I opened my Facebook Group V’s Visionaries early. And if you follow me on Instagram, you’ll have seen in my stories that this wasn’t exactly the trajectory I’d intended for this group, but what is a vision without hope? I was sitting at the dinner table a couple of nights ago when my chest started …
How could positivity be toxic? Simple answer – it can’t.
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my Dad’s death. The weeks leading up to yesterday were very up and down, so naturally I thought the day was going to hit me hard.
Between my postpartum and the loss of my Dad, I felt a kind of rawness I’ve never known before.