Whispers of a Warrior

There's a feeling that comes after something moves from your system that you didn't even know you were carrying.

An energetic purge. Whether that's a cry, belly laugh, a scream, or pleasurable ecstasy, it's release.

It feels like space. Openness. Freedom. Love. A knowing that wasn't there before.

When life force moves through and clears what has been stuck for years, you can suddenly sense who you are beneath the single identity everyone - including yourself - had been observing.

Beneath the...

What I found before I had language for it - and why it matters.

I have never talked about this part of my story this way before.

I always wanted to be a mom. That was never a question for me. Just a matter of when.

The first few losses kind of rolled off my back. I was young. The finances weren't there. The timing wasn't right. I had every justification lined up and I leaned on all of them. My heart was still broken underneath all of it. My soul's light dimmed a little with each one, even whe...

Sometimes the universe moves for us. We don't get to know why. We just learn to arrive differently.

My son fell off a scooter this week and broke his collarbone - the same bone, the same exact spot, as when he was born. He came into this world with a fracture in that place, and now, years later, the body has gone back to the beginning. We are in May, which is Hypermobility Awareness Month, and he lives with hypermobility and Type 1 diabetes. His body has always asked more of us than we expected...

I asked my son this week what he got from me that he appreciates most. I expected resilience. Something about schedules, diabetes, or food. We have had several years. Medical complexity that started from the day he was born. Years of appointments, glucose checks, middle-of-the-night alarms, and advocating loudly in rooms where I had to be the most informed person there. I built a whole system around keeping him safe and moving forward. I thought some version of that would land.

He said, "My lov...

There is a version of chaos that looks like strength from the outside.

You are still showing up. Still answering. Still present for everyone who needs you. Still functioning at a level that makes people say "I don't know how you do it."

Inside, your frequency is scattered in fifteen directions.

That is not a discipline problem. That is what happens when we are giving our energy without any clarity about where it's actually going.

Most of us were never taught that energy moves. That it transf...

You're making choices for people who stopped influencing your life years ago.

Most of us don't even realize we're doing it. The people who shaped our beliefs, our fears, our definitions of success and failure, they don't have to be present to keep influencing our decisions. They don't have to be in our lives, our phone contacts, or even our conscious thoughts. At some point, they planted something and left. The cord stayed.

I've done it more times than I'd like to admit. Making a decision and ...