The first steps to reclaiming your voice, your values and your true nature.

We never know what type of parent we will start off as and grow into. Here I explore what made me find my stride in Momming.

When a person can no longer hide behind lies, what will it take for someone to tell the truth?

We learn one lesson after another. Some we remember, some we will need to experience several times before we cannot forget.

We enter into conversations and leave so much unsaid. We create mysteries by assuming, half listening and we form opinions from these missed messages. Here are some ways out of the gray.

What do you get when you spend decades suppressing feelings and relying on logic and compassion to accept other's truth and beliefs... Not a lot.

Embracing my feelings would guide me back to me.

What if Having It All was not about having things at all? What if being Selfish but fair was the way?

I always thought that if I could understand someone's story then I could empathize with the reasons people do the things they do, or say the things they say. All this awareness would help me navigate them better, or so I thought. Then I realized a blindspot in my thinking. I would never know if someone could feel.

Growing up we adapt to fit in with your family, friends, in school and at work. For some, the cost of fitting in means abandoning parts of ourselves, so we can show up for others. As we move away from checking in our needs we assume the role of people pleasing.

I reflect on what it took to adapt into a people pleaser and now how to get out of being one.