Category: Encouragement

  • i love my mom, i really do

    I never truly knew who my mom was until my grandpa died. I never knew how much I needed her, how much I loved her, or how much she truly supported me until we both had to walk a path of grieving together.  My mom has always been a friend of mine. She was a…

  • 24 good & bad things that happened in 2016

      I normally write a birthday post (which I didn’t) & I usually write an end of the year one too (which I should have done sooner). But this year has been different for me, so this year you’re going to get both in one. The year 2016 was one of a lot of growth for…

  • monday morning encouragement: life lately 

    Life lately has been different. It’s been a whole lot of plain.. As someone who thrives & grows on creativity & inspiration, I’m in a spot where I feel like I’m receiving none. I don’t do the things I love to do. I don’t create what I feel I was born to create. I don’t…

  • a letter to my pa

    Dear Pa, It’s been a year now since you passed away.  A year go yesterday you were still alive, but a year ago today you were not. I can easily say that this has been the hardest year of my life that I have had to live so far. I tried to write about the…

  • monday morning encouragement: without the bad, you can’t appreciate the good

    This year has been bad. Like, so many tears, tons of sad times, so much heart ache & a lot of lows. This year has been good too though. Really sweet memories, new life, greater, deeper relationships, & the highest of highs. Life is unpredictable & pain is inevitable. Loneliness is real & brokenness is…

  • monday morning encouragement: reach for the sky, it’s limitless 

    Life is so unpredictable. It truly is. You never know where it’s gonna take you, who it’s going to bring you, or what will happen any further than one minute out. I can’t tell you how much I truly admire life & it’s unknowing possibilities. There are times that are so hard that you have…

  • monday morning encouragement: when the good comes, it’s okay to let the bad go

    Life is good lately. I feel like I don’t want to believe it, but it’s true. Things have finally turned around. The bad seems distant & I’m unsure how to feel about it.  When you’ve lived almost an entire year of your life under a dark cloud of sadness & grief, you almost get used…

  • monday morning encouragement: it’s a one day at a time kind of life

    What will tomorrow bring? Nobody can truly say. We can guess. We can hope. We can long for something great, or grand to happen. But, we really don’t know what tomorrow holds. We’ll never be able to fully predict the future. We’ll never be able to completely promise anything beyond the sunset that brings the…

  • monday morning encouragement: girls, support girls

    We are the root of our own jealousy. We are the stem of our own self-doubt. We use the poisunous nectar called comparison which makes our beautiful petals fall out. We destroy our selves from the bottom up because we think that we have to be anything other than who we are.  We are girls.…

  • monday morning encouragement: when life seems great

    When life seems great, & your sadness has somehow drifted off no where to be found, it’s okay to be happy.  If you’ve been reading for awhile then you know how tough of a year this has been for me. The person where I found the root of so much joy in my life had…