Many emotions have swirled through my heart over the past weeks. Certainly discomfort, a lack of ease. Sadness for much that has been lost. Graduations, proms, and weddings. For those who dismiss the legitimacy of sadness regarding the missing of these mil...

Kindness. Compassion. Empathy. It’s what being part of the solution looks like. We can think it must be big and bold, grand gestures and extravagance, but it’s most frequently gentle and soft. It rests in gentle whispers and smiles. It’s in the details.

It’...

Struggles. Brief moments of frustration. Small setbacks. Long periods of profound darkness. Confusion. Anxiety. Depression. Despair. Grief. It’s all part of this messy human experience. We’d give almost anything if we could grow purely from the sunlight, b...

We say we value individuality. We swear we love and accept our partners, parents, children, siblings and friends for being exactly who they are. And yet. Time and time again we get lost in the belief, in the expectation, that they should be just like us, o...

I recently had someone (scream) at me “can’t anger EVER just be about anger? Does it ALWAYS have to be about something else?” It doesn’t always "have” to be about something else. It just typically is. Sure, every once in awhile anger is healthy response to...