body
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This is My Story, This is My song…
Coming to terms with how much pain and hurt I have stored in my body is not easy. I’ve carried the wounds since I was 6. 6 to 31, years of reinforcement, years of hiding, years of surviving…. honestly, years of dismissal, disbelieving that my wounds needed caring, healing, or validation. Instead, praying them away, Continue reading
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Body
I listen to my body its fears that I will abandon it forgetting that this mind and soul live inside flesh As my body works giving me breath heart food I live unaware ungrateful In the moments when I pause I listen my body listens too mind and soul and body attuned there is a Continue reading
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Beautiful Broken Body
Softly I turn towards myself Gently I speak To each part of felt weakness To the aches and pains The places that remind me I am human I am not home yet I am constantly carried I embrace these places Showing them The tenderness and care They crave They are not my enemy They are Continue reading
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Shadows
The things I fear they seem to fail in the light of Your love my mind grows dull Yet I have You my bones they ache still everlasting arms they hold me My heart it flutters You live there My eyes grow dim You move there Your Spirit breathes These are but shadows real but Continue reading
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Surprise
This was written back in October 2021, and the journey to listening and showing compassion had just begun. Today I thanked God for my symptoms. I affirmed my body, showed it love, called it healthy and good. How did I get here? I hardly know, except that the Spirit has and is doing its work Continue reading
About Me
An obsessive journaler who loves meeting others along their journey and giving them a hand to hold through pieces of writing. I write about the heartbreaks of life and the joys, the ups and downs, and I often learn my greatest lessons and miracles from nature.
Joyful Ruins 