This is the Shame Free Zone and I do my best to model as much transparency as is possible. Yet I can be just as blind to some truths about myself, as anyone else. I often joke that I’m in denial about something right now. I just don’t know what it is. Yet. I know …
It’s no secret that I am on a mission to heal shame. I feel deep in my bones that shame is the cause of so much that hurts and harms all of us. The irony for me is that if we could openly talk about ourselves and our lives without feeling ashamed, we would be …
I come from a VERY big family! My dad was the last of eleven children and although my parents only had two children, my sister and me, my other aunts and uncles had A LOT of children. By the time I was a teenager, I had 50 first cousins. That number has increased over the …
This is where I grew up. When I was a preteen and an adolescent, the trailer wasn’t so grungy. But the trees weren’t so lush and green either. That shed in the background is where I raised fifty baby pheasant from egg to adulthood, and later two young raccoons. It would also eventually become an …
If you are like me, the word “cult” might bring some very disturbing events to mind. Things like the Jonestown Massacre or the murders perpetrated by the Charles Manson “family.” Maybe you think cults always lead to sex orgies, murders and suicide? Well there certainly has been way more of that than the world needs. …
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