The more relationships you get in and get out of the more patterns start to show. You see what it takes to keep something going or what you gave to get and it becomes clear and so does the cost of these connections. From this you realize what matters to you.

When you ask yourself "What do you want, really" you have to accept what your life is, what it isn't and what you would have to try, change and walk away from to get what it is that you see for yourself.

What is your personal style? Have you given that much thought? I hadn't and then that changed.

What is your true nature, your essence? For some of us we always know it and for others, me included, we have to discover it through awareness and what feels right.

When you are in a toxic relationship or environment and you start to realize that wake up, what does that mean

Knowing that change is inevitable then what holds us back from accepting change? What if, when a lesson in a relationship or job has been learned we acknowledged what has been learned and then release the hold? That is where I find myself now.

What is it to be emotionally unavailable? Sometimes all it takes is being too invested in an outcome that will never be and the lack of awareness to let go.

When I got let go from my job it created a toxic time in my life. This experience would make me question how I could have let this happen and what I needed to make things right, for me.

There are certain people and experiences that test us and shape us, for the better. This is the story of my sister-in-law walk with cancer and me by her side.

What if our life is not about our purpose but instead is about the myriad of experiences that together form us and how we experience people and the world?

So, with this idea in mind, I decided to accept what comes and even seek out experiences, including the embarrassing and the ridiculous. Here are a few of those stories.