and you thought YOU were having a bad day

Sometimes you just can’t take no for an answer when it comes to sharing kindness.

part 6: the power of perspective

The one where I realize how much the lens we view life through skews our perception. Perspective really is everything.

i can see you…why can’t i see myself?

I’ve decided to pay homage to the Throwback Thursday phenomenon (#TBT) by sharing a post I originally published six months into my 365 day challenge, on June 7, 2013. It seemed a fitting one to follow up the last post on Dove’s Beauty Patch. Plus, I had like 12 followers at the time, so very few…

running: to escape your problems, or to find inner peace?

My last post was all about perception, and how it colours everything. I got another very real and impactful reminder of that today. To say it’s been a rough week or so would be an understatement. I won’t bore you with the details; suffice to say that I’m well past the point of waiting for “the other shoe to…

I can see you…why can’t I see myself?

The past several days a recurring thought keeps bubbling up, presumably because my subconscious wants me to dig deeper on this subject. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about body image. Both how we view ourselves and how we view others, and how that compares to how they view us. Last Tuesday at the gym, I decided to…