How is it that we are invited do the most important job in the world with no guidance whatsoever? After all, you have to take an examination when you drive a car … a motorcycle even … how about when deciding to raise a human being?
Author: Cata Gardescu
I am a connector, a lover of all things beautiful and a fighter when things get hard. I try each day to live truthfully, learn as much as I possibly can and push myself in the right directions. I am learning to trust my gut and my instincts and embrace uncertainty.
Ask For What You Want
Asking for what I want, whether it is from my work teams, life partner, my original family, my friends or my son is so very hard. I would even say that the pain I derive from implying wants and having the others not get what I actually mean is easier to bear. Not fair on any of parties involved, but much, much easier to swallow.
The End of A World
This week, close to commemorating two years of a pandemic that has changed our lives forever, I am reminded that I am in fact … a service.
The truth will set me free
If I had a broken leg, pink eye, COVID, the flu, a migraine … you name it … I would have said just that and not spend one second trying to concoct a plausible disguise. But somehow, there has been so much shame around me just saying I am am having a bout of anxiety and/or depression and need a mental health break, I cannot meet right now.
Remembering 2006 …
And just like that … a journey towards another myself started. Beautiful and scary at the exact same time.
May we always return …
It always starts as a dip in my energy. Sometimes I am in the middle of something I enjoy, far, far away (I think) from
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