Can you imagine, and perhaps you really can, what it is like to experience that first, heart-blowing realization that someone actually loves you completely? Loves you without boundaries or restraint, regardless of your brokenness, emotional issues, and the truckloads of psychological stuff you carry with you? It is addictive to say the least. Your mind… Continue reading This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain in Love.
"Humans love a good story!" Yes! Enter Passionista At Large. I love stories. I love to tell stories. I love to read stories. I'm a voracious reader. And I seriously struggle with non-fiction unless it's written in a storyteller-like way. When I was teaching elementary school I turned everything I could into a story. I… Continue reading “This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Fiction.”
Sometimes we just feel like garbage. I’m not talking about when we are ill, and our bodies feel like trash. I mean when someone degrades us, or we can’t accomplish something we have worked really hard at. Or when we realize that we have screwed up big time. Or we disappoint someone whom we love… Continue reading The Great Recycler
I did it. I launched a dream. A dream that will provide more ways to speak into women's lives and also give them fun times together. (Excuse me while this hot flash passes!) I launched a website!! I really did! With all my information on it....what am I thinking?! Yikes! What if someone contacts me?… Continue reading To Dream….
If you would like to be inspired by women who believed they could, did, and made a difference in spite of odds against them......check out the post by Debbie Phillips, founder of Women on Fire, of the **Top 10 Women Who Set 2013 On Fire** . http://www.debbiephillips.com/2014/01/10/the-top-10-women-who-set-2013-on-fire/ Sometimes we just need to see that others… Continue reading And so, she believed…
(Originally written in June of 2012, I decided it still had some good points, so posted it now.) I am usually a very positive person. However, being broadsided by the life-changing event of breaking my right leg, which means no walking or driving for at LEAST eight weeks, kind of had me in an "I'm… Continue reading Whatever Is Pure
So many of us hold as truth myths, or lies, that govern our lives, our choices, and our behaviors! I know I did (still do, I'm sure). BUT... Who taught us these lies/myths we believe are true? The old adage "If you tell a lie long enough it becomes truth to you" applies here! Unfortunately,… Continue reading The Lies That Bind
"Joy" is one of my favorite words. Even when life is a disappointment or trial, we can still have a consistent joy. I believe that joy is that which runs deep in our spirit, and it flows from gratitude, appreciation, and abundance, and the ability to recognize when we have them. Sometimes having joy requires… Continue reading Choosing Joy
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I want to encourage you to LIVE Loud and Make it COUNT this year. Now, even though I'm naturally a loud person, that isn't what I mean here. What I mean is to live your life with passion, gusto, meaning!! In everything you do....LIVE it. IN the moment. Do not become dulled… Continue reading 2013
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