It was years ago now that I stood in the truth of my knowing and said one small thing: “I need to live alone.” The context was my intimate relationship with my daughter’s dad and the cost to speak these words out loud felt like nothing less than everything I thought I had ever wanted and strived to put and hold together. And it was. Despite my desire to stay in relationship as I sought the space I needed, I could not control what he wanted and, thus, the relationship, as it was, ended.
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